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Entrepreneurship Matters
Dr Kudzanai Vere
Zimbabwe is our motherland and this doesn’t change even if you go out to work in the diaspora or you might have stayed behind and chose to do nothing towards our economic emancipation.
This is a wakeup call to entrepreneurs and others that we need to work towards recollection, realignment and raving our beloved country forward.
We have abundant resources
It goes without saying that Zimbabwe is rich. Yes, more than what most people think. Are we all seeing it and what are we doing about it?
We have vast land for agriculture, sunlight for solar power, rich mineral deposits that can transform our mining sector, great natural attraction centres and wildlife for our tourism industry and excellent human capital.
What is missing in this equation to transform our spaces and ultimately our economy is serious intent. OK let me tell you, no one is going to tell us to use our resources without thinking of themselves.
All these resources are for all Zimbabweans, the elite and the poor and that must be respected. If you get an opportunity to extract, exploit and manage these and make sure you have an all-inclusive approach.
We can do it
The power to make or break it lies with us. Let us choose to make it. I have known entrepreneurship as the identification of market opportunities and exploiting them in a unique way through the configuration of resources at our disposal. This is in the form of unique business ventures, listening to all the risk inherent in such ventures in anticipation of a profit.
Fellow Zimbabweans, no one will put us into perspective. If our erstwhile colonisers managed to organise our resources in a novel way and sustained our economy, why can’t we do the same or even more?
We have others who dream them back, but that is a no-brainer. Let us all stand up and be counted as far as economic emancipation is concerned.
There is need to fully utilise that which we have for our own benefit. We have vast land for Agricultural Entrepreneurship (AI).
We need entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector who can really take farming to the top. We have the capacity to do so.
We just need a few committed individuals who can hold fort and lead this agricultural revolution.
Let us go back to basics. No one is coming.
Why do you continue to think quality products can only be imported and yet they are just works of other equal beings elsewhere?
The only difference is that they have resolved and chosen to rediscover themselves, a similar transformation that we are calling for today. It will never get done until we do it ourselves.
We comment the Government for putting in place supporting structures for the entrepreneur as they seek to configure national and natural endowments in the form of businesses.
These structures need competent personnel who see beyond self for the benefit of the majority.
There is still more to be done to make sure that the structures work towards supporting this national cause. There are Zimbabwe nationals who are capable of doing exploits in their areas of entrepreneurial endeavours, but they are limited due to lack of capital equipment to boost production and meet the growing demand of their products.
There needs to be a deliberate national strategy to identify serious players in the market and support them as they seek to equally contribute to the growth, sustainability and success story of our economy.
We strongly feel there is a gap that needs attention. A number of promising game changers in the entrepreneurship arena are facing funding challenges for their capital projects and yet they have a ready market.
We have all it takes to re-launch a serious economic revolution by doing the unexpected. We’re sitting on abundant resources that we can configure in the form of amazing industries.
Let’s never think backwards. There is no future in the past. We can collectively curve a future that we want to live in, but we must take cognisance of how we use our time and resources now for it ultimately determines the colour of our future.
If it was good then, why should it be bad now? We just need to own our actions and put up a transformational and progressive mindset.
In fact, it should be better now for we have an influx of technology that is making a number of processes and procedures shorter, faster and more efficient than before.
Conclusion
As individuals and collectively, we can reconfigure, reconstruct and restore our economy back on its wheels. Supported entrepreneurship is the answer.
Determined to engage, inspire and transform generations in the areas of entrepreneurship and personal development.
The writer, Dr Kudzanai Vere is an entrepreneur, author of four books, business and personal development, multiple award winning entrepreneurship and business coach. Dr Vere has coached more than 5 000 entrepreneurs globally and continues to impact people in the areas of entrepreneurship, business and personal development. He is the founder & CEO of Kudfort, Transformational Mindset Institute and the Institute of Entrepreneurs Zimbabwe. Contact Dr Kudzanai Vere for transformational entrepreneurship and business coaching and training on [email protected] or +263 719 592232.
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