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Mukudzei Chingwere
Herald Reporter
Zimbabwe’s economic development and apparent infrastructure boom under the Second Republic is set to spin-off into the SADC region on the back of President Mnangagwa’s desire to see, not only locals, but neighbours prosper too.
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga said this when he spoke at the ongoing SADC Industrialisation Week (SIW) ahead of President Mnangagwa’s assumption of the SADC chairmanship later this month.
SIW is the largest public-private sector platform and consultative body for regional industrialisation which is seeking to promote innovation to unlock opportunities for sustainable economic growth and development towards an industrialised SADC.
President Mnangagwa officially opened the SIW in Harare yesterday.
Zimbabwe is hosting the SADC Summit on the back of rapid economic development that has seen tremendous infrastructure development coupled with several other positive markers in economic growth.
All this, has been a result of President Mnangagwa’s economic development agenda through, which he is targeting to foster an empowered upper-middle income economy by 2030.
“The President’s development philosophy of leaving no-one and no place behind, has been a game changer in transforming the livelihoods of ordinary Zimbabweans across the country,” said VP Chiwenga.
“Our guest of honour belongs to the first generation of Zimbabwe’s trained anti-colonial combatants who played a pivotal role in liberating Zimbabwe from the yoke of colonialism.
“His drive now is to ensure economic emancipation not only for Zimbabwe, but the whole of the SADC region.
“Through his transformative agenda of becoming an upper-middle-income society by 2030, he has managed to positively steer industry and commerce, spurring production in key sectors that include mining, agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and infrastructural development,” said VP Chiwenga.
He said President Mnangagwa has initiated rapid economic growth in Zimbabwe in various sectors.
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