SUCCESS COMES TO THOSE WHO WORK HARD FOR IT.

AS one of Zimbabwe's companies that play a leading

role in the country's economic development, Fossil

Contracting Pvt Limited, today joins the world in

celebrating Workers' Day.

The day is an international day set aside on the 1st of

May every year to celebrate the important role that

the worker plays in the development of countries

worldwide.

The first May Day celebrations focused on workers

took place on May 1st 1890 after its proclamation by

the first international congress of socialist parties in

Europe on July 14th 1889 in Paris, France, to dedicate

May 1st every year as the "Workers Day of

International Unity and Solidarity."

It is against this background that Fossil Contracting, a

subsidiary of the Fossil Group, which is

headquartered in Harare, has recorded noteworthy

milestones since its formative stages in 2010.

"As an organisation, Workers' Day means celebrating

our employees and this is attributed to their hard

work," said Fossil Contracting human resources

officer, Ms Joyleen Madimu.

This, she said, was on account that her organisation

has created and promoted a culture where everyone

works in unison and regarding each other as a family.

The civil engineering firm started with less than 100

workers but over the years its workforce has to date

exponentially grown to close to 1 000.

Fossil Contracting is a member of the Zimbabwe

Builders and Contractors Association (ZBCA) and

Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe

(CIFOZ).

“Fossil is a category A ranked member of ZBCA,

category A-ranked member of CIFOZ, and Category

A ranked member of the Ministry of Local

Government, Public works and National housing

which accolades are the highest possible rankings

for any construction in Zimbabwe,” said Ms Madimu.

The firm offers services in infrastructural

development including projects such as concrete

works, asphalt plant, road construction, earthworks,

and building works.

Ms Madimu said her organisation continues to

register a positive growth trajectory in terms of

securing more contracts for different projects from

the public and private sectors driven by a dedicated

and committed workforce.

"We are overly appreciative of the role our workers

have given and continue to give to the organisation.

"The company started with less than 100 employees

and two tippers and the projects that we were doing

at the time were few.

"But our workforce has remarkably grown to 986 at

present with the figure broken down as 867 males

and 119 females. As an organisation we have

managed to win big contracts from both the public

and private sectors,” she said.

"This positive milestone is not just credited to

management but also to the best human resource

asset we have in the organisation.”

At present, Fossil Contracting has a total 14 active

projects that it is undertaking across the country.

Such projects involve road construction and

rehabilitation.

This dovetails with the aspirations of the Second

Republic where the infrastructural development has

been prioritised as a vital cog in driving the national

development agenda to achieve an upper middleincome

economy status by 2030.

“Currently, we have 14 active projects that we are

involved in and such initiatives include those to do

with road construction and rehabilitation for projects

like the Harare-Beitbridge road dualisation.

“We also have other road projects for Zimplats,

Masvingo, Nhekairo in Wedza, Chiredzi, Victoria

Falls-Bulawayo road rehabilitation project as well as

the upgrades of roads in Gweru's CBD (Central

Business District), the tailings dam water pipeline for

Gwayi-Shangani Dam," she said.

Fossil Contracting also has a quarry project and

Asphalt plant in Waterfalls, Harare.

"For every camp site that we do, our employees are

given a bonus for project completion and

employment opportunities."

achieving specific goals and objectives.

managers.

scholarships," said Ms Madimu.

engineering.

climate change.

if we have

a project, we also recruit general hands from the

local community where we will be working from as

part of our efforts in supporting the local people with

Since 2015, the civil engineering company has been

offering graduate traineeship programmes in

recognition of the critical role played by human

resources in driving the businesses towards

"We engage in training programmes such as

graduate traineeship and some of the graduate

trainees and have been offered managerial roles

within our organisation taking up positions as human

resources, commercial, treasurer and project

"We have also partnered with the University of

Zimbabwe (UZ) through the department of Civil

Engineering where we are offering fully-funded

Through the scholarship programme, which started

last year and will be rolled out annually, Fossil

Contracting supports underprivileged students that

would have been accepted by UZ to study civil

The scholarship programme, which is fully-funded,

supports students with 14 points and above.

"On training again, we offer industrial attachment for

civil engineering, land surveying, quantity surveying,

diesel plant fitting, motor mechanics, auto electrics,

safety, health and environment and human resources.

"The students come from different institutions of

higher learning across the country," said Ms Madimu.

As part of corporate social responsibility, she said her

organisation has also drilled boreholes to benefit

communities in light of the adversarial effects of