Indigenous firm wins best contractor award

ZIMBUILD has been named the country’s best building contractor with Fossil Contracting and Tensor Systems as runners up at a time the country is experiencing a boom in the sector.

Zimbuild chief executive officer and former Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce president Dr Tinashe Manzungu accepted the award at a recent ceremony in Victoria Falls.

Zimbuild specialises in infrastructure development including residential, commercial, and industrial construction.

“Employing local companies has a huge benefit to the economy in that while you improve infrastructure, you will be also promoting local participation in economic activities and the positive results have not gone unnoticed,” said Dr Manzungu.

“The biggest advantages of hiring locally is that it creates jobs and provides training opportunities that would not otherwise be available. It has also helped the massive growth of local companies.”

Dr Manzungu said the award acknowledges hard work, dedication, and expertise of the company’s entire team.

“It demonstrates that our efforts and contributions to the construction industry have been acknowledged and appreciated by industry experts and peers. Zimbuild actively collaborates with the Government to align our projects with the priorities set forth in NDS1. We are doing roads and we place a strong emphasis on job creation and skills development.

“We recognise that one of the key objectives of NDS1 is to create employment opportunities for Zimbabwean citizens as His Excellency the President of Zimbabwe says ‘leaving no one and no place behind’.”

Since his inauguration in 2017, President Mnangangwa has emphasised the need to grow the economy and has emphasised the need to have local companies implementing capital intensive projects. All the companies working on national roads construction are locally owned and have proved to be capable of delivering quality work.