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Zimbabwe will host the sixth edition of the Mining and Infrastructure Indaba in Harare from the 8th to the 10th of October this year.
The Zimbabwe Mining and Infrastructure Indaba will be held under the theme, “Mining”: A Catalyst for Infrastructure Development in Africa.The conference to be hosted by Utho Capital will bring together various local, regional and global experts in the areas of finance, infrastructure development, mining and investments.
“Africa’s perennial challenges of lack of financial and human resources capacity to undertake infrastructure development will take centre stage,” said Utho Capital chief executive Mrs Sheila Galloway.
The conference has proved to be one of the major sector specific conferences in the country which draws a lot of potential regional and global investors.
She said the idea of the conference is to provide practitioners and any key stakeholders with practical understanding of how to utilise public private partnerships more effectively as a form of procuring and financing infrastructure projects and services.
Key note speakers at the conference will include Minister of Mines and Mining Development Walter Chidhakwa, Mr Alex Mhembere who is the president of the Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines and chief executive of Zimplats, Mr Ian Saunders president and chief executive of New Dawn Mining Company, Mr Elias Masilela commissioner national planning commission South Africa and Klaus Findt partner KPMG Infrastructure and Major Projects Group South Africa among others.
Another addition to the conference this year is a workshop on Private Public Partnerships.
This capacity building workshop will be held over the two days and will cover the following: PPP Guidelines and Process, Undertaking a Feasibility Study; Legal Due Diligence Considerations; Technical due diligence considerations; Funding PPPs; The Procurement Process for a PPP; PPP Documentation and types of PPPS.
One of the other topics, which will come under discussion at the conference, is the issue of beneficiation and value addition of minerals in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole.
Mrs Galloway said: “ Beneficiation is a top priority for Africa and the Zimbabwe mining and infrastructure Indaba 2014.”
“This conference will bring together renowned international experts in mining, beneficiation and infrastructure development highlighting best practices in beneficiation from around the world but more importantly illustrating how far Zimbabwe has come with beneficiation.”
Regional and international delegates are also expected to attend the conference and last year over 300 hundred regional and international delegates attended.
She said other issues to be tackled at the conference include, new legislation and regulations in the mining sector, raising capital for African mining and infrastructure projects, sovereign wealth funds: a source of investment, localisation of procurement to build sustainable economies and powering Africa: alternative power generation strategies.
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