Mutare to get $450k for Dangamvura pipeline
MUTARE City Council is set to receive $450 000 for the completion of the Dangamvura pipeline, in a move aimed at easing severe water shortages that have hounded the suburb for more than a decade.
Town clerk Mr Joshua Maligwa revealed this week that the local authority will receive the funds from Zimfund through the African Development Bank.
“We have actually received a shot in the arm from Zimfund through the African Development Bank regarding the Dangamvura water pipeline,” he said.
“You would recall that sometime back we offered a Bulawayo company to supply water pipes from the Dangamvura pipeline and we are almost clinching a deal with Zimfund.
“We are hoping that by end of this month we would have finalised the deal and received $450 000 to argument the pipeline project. That deal through the public, private partnership is going to GOVERNMENT is seeking investors to fund the building of state-of-theart infrastructure at Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences, an official has said.
Speaking during a tour of the university recently, Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Amon Murwira said Government wanted to promote the flow of investment in the knowledge-based industry.
“Our grand plan is to make a university city,” he said. “We have an infrastructural development programme in place. In this programme, we are aiming to attract Foreign Direct Investment into our universities.”
Prof Murwira said the model involved the building of state-of-theart hostels for students, office blocks and shopping malls at universities on Public Private Partnerships or Build Operate and Transfer models.
“For hostels, the model we want to use is that we will engage an investor, either foreign or local, to build it in about six months and we give them time to recover their money plus profit through student accommo- assist a lot because instead of us paying more money, council will spend less and save.
“Initially, we were supposed to fork out $1 million for the pipeline, but Zimfund is saying we worked with Mutare before in similar projects and is excited to work again with the city.”
Mr Maligwa said the completion of the pipeline would ensure uninterrupted allday supply of water to suburbs.
“The upgrading of the pipeline will also help council avail water to Dora extension residential projects, Fern Valley and the Diamond Mining Company’s sorting centre, as well as the MSU campus,” he said.
He said the local authority would install water meters for all households in Dangamvura to realise meaningful returns from the project.
Mr Maligwa said the local authority had also entered into partnership with a German-based non-Governmental organisation for the rationalisation of its human resource capital.
“We have received $100 000 that will be used to look into all our human resources issues,” he said. “This includes job evaluation, job grading, organorgrams and structures.
“So, we have already engaged Price Waterhouse who are already on the ground working on the human resources issue.”