President ED Mnangagwa paid a courtesy to President Hage Geingob at the Statehouse Zimbabwe will never be the same again as Gov...
The President revealed that he had given all Cabinet ministers targets to meet within their first 100 days in office, and some opposition parties were already claiming that he had stolen their manifestos saying as long as the ideas fell within the purview of the national interest, he was duty-bound to attend to them. He explained amendments made to the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act as well as the vast opportunities presented by the new dispensation across all sectors.
"Let me assure you that Zimbabwe is not the same again and will not be the same again, my administration focuses on the following issues, one – unity, unity, unity. Love, love, love, work, work and work."All Zimbabweans we get united under our national flag and national anthem. We accept that we may have different views about how to run the country and that again, we accept it. So, we don’t need violence at all; whether with the family or the community or the country. If people differ, differ peacefully. It must be an intellectual difference in terms of approach. That should not be developed into violence.
"Secondly, as a party, which is Zanu-PF, we are determined to walk the talk." President Mnangagwa explained the opportunities available for investment in areas such as mining, agriculture, education, tourism and infrastructure development among others. With regards to mining, the President said Government had removed the 51 percent local shareholding requirement which is only restricted to diamonds and platinum. In the agriculture sector, Zimbabwe had managed to restore its breadbasket status after successfully implementing the Command Agriculture programme last year.
"We have to look at our educational institutions; during our time, when we went to school a long time ago, we were educated in order to look for jobs to be a clerk or nurse or a driver but we are saying, our tertiary institutions should have curriculum that talk to the industry so that what industry requires, the institutions must produce products who can work in the industry meeting the requirements of the industry" Said President Mnangagwa."There should be this inter-marriage between the needs of industry and the institutions producing graduates from our institutions. That time is now over where universities pride themselves on producing many graduates. “They must produce graduates who can fit our economic times and the technology of today and not all of them should be products who look for employment. He added. They must also be creators of employment.” President Mnangagwa said Government had set aside a fund to assist young people who interesting to start businesses for creating employment.
On his visit to Namibia, President Mnangagwa was accompanied by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lt General (Retired) Sibusiso Moyo and Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba. Meanwhile President Mnangagwa returned home last night and he was received at the Robert Mugabe International Airport by his two deputies General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga (Retired) and Cde Kembo Campbell Mohadi, among other Government officials.
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