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Southern Africa: Zim to Push Innovation Throughout SADC Chairmanship

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GABORONE, Botswana — Zimbabwe can be spearheading SADC’s modernisation and innovation efforts as these type the bedrock on which the area can enhance its industrialisation agenda, Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Botswana, Henry Mukonoweshuro, has mentioned.

In an interview forward of President Mnangagwa’s working go to to Botswana on Friday, Ambassador Mukonoweshuro mentioned Zimbabwe was dedicated to serving regional pursuits throughout its tenure as SADC chair.

Within the subsequent yr, President Mnangagwa will oversee the governance construction of SADC on the highest stage.

As chair, the President has the general mandate of offering coverage course and controlling the features of the regional bloc.

“What’s going to occur through the first programme is the familiarisation tour, the place he’ll meet with the SADC Secretariat employees and get an appraisal of what SADC does on a day-to-day foundation in driving the regional agenda of integration,” Ambassador Mukonoweshuro mentioned.

He mentioned following Zimbabwe’s assumption of the SADC chairmanship in August, the nation will push the theme of innovation.

“As a result of that’s key to the implementation of industrialisation, agro-processing, and mineral beneficiation,” Ambassador Mukonoweshuro mentioned.

The continued engagements inside the regional physique, he mentioned, had been indicative of cordial relations amongst member states.

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Moreover, the Ambassador mentioned relations between Harare and Gaborone had been on an upward trajectory as evidenced by the frequent interactions between President Mnangagwa and his counterpart President Duma Boko over the past two months.

“This reveals us that the relations inside SADC are fairly sisterly and it additionally reveals that it’s customary for the chairperson of SADC to go to the headquarters of SADC throughout their tenure.

“The Second Republic has managed to merge relationships, in the event you recall, the primary go to by the President of Botswana was in Victoria Falls after which the Extraordinary SADC Summit and now that is the third assembly in an area of two months,” he mentioned.

Ambassador Mukonoweshuro outlined President Mnangagwa’s programme right here, which can see him, other than assembly the SADC Secretariat employees, being handed over the constructing which the bloc bought.

Thereafter, he’ll attend the ground-breaking ceremony for the graduation of the development of the SADC Standby Power Regional Logistics Depot (RLD) at Rasesa village.

“There can be a second programme (after the familiarisation tour) the place the constructing is now being handed over by Bongwe Investments Proprietary Restricted, who had been the proprietors who assisted SADC in buying that constructing.

“They (SADC) have now paid up, and the constructing goes to be handed over to His Excellency the President as Chair and likewise President Duma Boko because the sitting President of Botswana the place the headquarters are.

“After that, we then have a 3rd programme the place the 2 Presidents are going into Rasesa, about 30 kilometres from Gaborone the place they will have a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of the development of the SADC logistical depot”.

Throughout President Mnangagwa’s tenure, he’ll push for the realisation of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Improvement Plan (RISDP 2020-2030) and SADC Imaginative and prescient 2050 plan, Ambassador Mukonoweshuro mentioned.