WEEKLY NEWS ROUND-UP

Monday

ZANU PF Central Committee elections held at the weekend were a demonstration of the party’s democratic credentials and organisational capacity, and will ensure the ruling party’s success in next year’s harmonised elections, the party’s spokesperson, Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa, said yesterday.

Election results will be announced this week (last week) from the National Command Centre.

Tuesday

Zimbabwe’s tourism sector is on a significant growth trajectory, with visitors to the country’s premier resort, Victoria Falls, being more than the city’s capacity to accommodate them, President Mnangagwa

has said.

This is despite the fact that new hotels have been built in Victoria Falls since the advent of the Second Republic, which has taken deliberate steps to reconstruct the key sector.

Wednesday

Zimbabwe’s export receipts reached US$3,3 billion in the first six months of this year, a 31 percent increase from the

US$2,5 billion recorded during the same period last year, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ambassador James Manzou, said yesterday.

Briefing the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on the ministry’s 2023 budget plans and overview of the 2022 budget performance, Ambassador Manzou said exports to countries like the United Arab Emirates and Belgium had increased.

Thursday

Charmed by President Mnangagwa’s open-door policy and far-reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming from the European Union (EU), which is now prepared to extend loans to the private sector as relations between the 27-member bloc and Zimbabwe continue to improve.

After presenting his credentials to President Mnangagwa at State House in Harare yesterday, incoming EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Jobst von Kirchmann, said Brussels expects constructive dialogue

with Harare.

Friday

President Mnangagwa yesterday officiated at the inaugural graduation at the Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences (MSUAS) and challenged graduates to take the lead in applying scientific knowledge to drive national development.

President Mnangagwa, who was installed as Chancellor of MSUAS, said the university, which started off with four faculties — Agri-Business and Commerce, Applied Science and Technology, Applied Social Sciences, and Engineering — should play a leading role in Education 5.0, which focuses on providing solutions.