Craft Properties to attend UN summit in Geneva

CRAFT Properties (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of Craft Properties Holdings, has been invited to attend the Practical Implementation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’ meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

Pencilled for February 20, 2020, this platform will provide Craft Properties (Pvt) Ltd with an opportunity to discuss integration of Sustainable Development Goals policy into current business models in Zimbabwe and its economic benefits.

In conjunction with its sister company Craft Properties USA LLC in the United States, the construction firm intends to take advantage of this international exposure to interact with the international business community aiming to bring investors to Zimbabwe.

“This is a positive development on the international level for this organisation as its delegates will have an opportunity to interact with the international community of business, economy and science leaders, under the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the public hearing in Geneva Switzerland.

“We will not be doing this for our own benefit but for the benefit of Zimbabweans,” said Craft Properties.

Craft Properties will get a chance to speak during the hearing on how businesses participate in solving unemployment problems and raising standards of living of fellow citizens.

The organisers of the event, Europe Business Assembly, encourage the regional business, science, education and healthcare elite to promote United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by involving them in the dialogue on the implementation of the said goals and other programmes in the field of sustainable development.

Craft Properties (Pvt) Ltd delegates will proceed from Geneva Switzerland to Frankfurt, Germany, to attend the international Arch of Europe for technology and leadership in quality conference to be held from February 29 to March 1, 2020.

This year will be a busy year for the organisation on the international scene as various meetings are already on the schedule.

Craft Properties (Pvt) Ltd is a committed housing development company whose intent is to fulfil the Government of Zimbabwe’s vision to cut the ever growing housing backlog and infrastructural development.

In October last year it launched Greenfield Cherries (agro-residential plots) in Kadoma after it completed servicing the massive project.

The plots are situated 4,5 kilometres from the Kadoma central business district along Harare–Bulawayo highway while 25,5 kilometres away from the mining and agricultural town of Chegutu, making it exactly 136,5km from Harare.

The Greenfield Cherries project sits on a 50-hectare piece of land and has 93 agro-residential plots measuring an average of 4 000 square metres suitable for horticultural and poultry projects among others.

DAM water levels continue on a steady rise on the back of the rains being received in different parts of the country and improved river flows, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority has said.

In an update, Zinwa corporate communications and marketing manager Marjorie Munyonga said as of Monday, the national dam level average had risen to 49,2 percent reflecting an 0,88 percent improvement from January 13.

“Gwayi Catchment has a dam level average of 43,5 percent, Manyame Catchment 74,1 percent, Mazowe Catchment 76,5 percent, Mzingwane 45,6 percent, Runde 39,9 percent, Sanyati 48,9 percent and Save 53, 7 percent. The national dam level average, however, remains lower than the 64,2 percent expected during this period of the year,” she said.

Mrs Munyonga said Zinwa had also noted an improvement in flows in the Zambezi, Limpopo, Save, Odzi, Runde, Devure, Pungwe, Musengezi and Mazowe Rivers.

“These improvements in the river flows and dam levels bring relief to a significant number of areas that have been water stressed in recent weeks,” she said.

Zimbabwe has been experiencing shortages of electricity due to reduced generating capacity at Kariba Dam owing to low water levels drought.

Regardless of the recorded improvements, Mrs Munyonga reiterated that water remained a finite resource which needed to be managed quite efficiently and sparingly.

“Water users across the board are therefore encouraged to practise water conservation, which will help stretch the limited available water resources longer and also assist users in keeping their bills down.

“The authority also implores all those using water from Zinwa-managed dams to ensure that their use is in accordance with the provisions of the Water Act, which them to have water abstraction agreements entered into with Zinwa,” she said.

Meanwhile, Zinwa is working to improve access to potable water by rural communities in water stressed areas by rehabilitating boreholes.

“To this end, the authority has successfully rehabilitated 109 boreholes in water-stressed districts of Buhera, Chipinge, Rushinga, Mwenezi, Chivi and Nyanga. The target is to repair and bring back to functionality 933 boreholes in the seven provinces of Mashonaland East, Manicaland, Masvingo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and the Midlands,” said Munyonga. — New Ziana.