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ZIMBABWE National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) immediate past president, Dr Tinashe Manzungu, received global honour over the weekend during the 2023 Leaders Without Borders’ annual business summit and international honours event that was held in the United Kingdom.
A youthful Gweru businessman, Dr Manzungu is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Zimbuild Contracting. He was the guest speaker at the Indaba, which ran under the theme: “Business Beyond Borders — Global Partnerships and Sustainable Investments”.
Dr Manzungu was honoured alongside six others with a PhD in Business Administration (with special recognition to leadership and management) by California Metropolitan University for the tremendous strides he is putting forward in both businesses for the country and the African continent.
Dr Manzungu joined business experts from various parts of the world to create a global network, and investment opportunities, which promote economic development in their respective countries.
“This was a good week for me and the country at large. I was honoured by the Leaders Without Borders annual business summit and international honours in the United Kingdom. I was also the guest speaker through the Africa Business Council in which I am a director,” he told Chronicle.
Dr Manzungu said in his presentation he spoke about innovations and productivity, which are the drivers of sustainable economic and social development.
“This was an opportunity to market the country and Africa at large. It was about weighing out the sustainability of the investments that come to Africa and our country,” he said.
Dr Manzungu is also the group chairman of TM Group, which has interests mainly in construction, financial services, and insurance. He is part of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Business Council and Africa Business Council, among other regional and continental business bodies.
“We need to encourage partnerships in small to medium to large enterprises rather than monopoly from country to country, continent to continent in the bid to create a stronger regional, continental and global economy,” he said.
“I also invited the first world countries to come to work with us in developing our infrastructure, as well value edition in our minerals as an emerging economy that has got its own targets of 2030,” he added.
Dr Manzungu highlighted that the African Continental Free Trade Area has huge potential hence the need to invite the globe to come and work together with Africa in investing financial resources to unlock wider business opportunities across different sectors.
“I am glad to report that many expressed interests and were now negotiating and having meetings to that effect. We also used the example of Sino-hydro where 1 300 megawatts of power are going to be generated through the partnership between Zimbabwe and China as a bid to encourage global partnership,” he said.
Dr Manzungu said agreements were also signed with some African companies and European companies keen to also exploit the emerging African real estate sector, which has higher potential in the infrastructure segment.
“To them, it means less risk as Zimbabwe is one of the co-founders, we look forward to seeing more infrastructure projects implemented because of this new big African project,” he said.
For over a decade, Leaders Without Borders has partnered with over 60 International Organisations through unique programmes that encourage business growth and expansion.
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