A special thank you to all partners from Zimind

I WOULD like to convey our special thanks as the Zimbabwe Independent to His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa for gracing this occasion.

Your presence today demonstrates commitment and sheer focus on attracting investment and economic recovery.

This is in line with the President’s “Zimbabwe is Open For Business” mantra, and the vision to transform the country into an upper middle-income status by 2030.

Let me also take this opportunity to convey our special thanks to all the esteemed guests who have graced this event.

Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to deliver this vote of thanks following a day of insightful presentations at our inaugural Zimbabwe

Annual Investor Forum.

Today, we had an opportunity to understand developments that are taking place in Zimbabwe’s economy from investment, labour, inflation, gold coins, exchange rate developments, and others.

Despite the headwinds stemming from the Covid–19 pandemic and disruptions to operations that have been brought by such factors and instabilities in Eastern Europe, the future appears to be bright. But we need to work together to achieve our goals as a nation.

In that regard, the media plays a complementary role in spurring the national development agenda as espoused by the government while discharging its oversight role as the Fourth Estate.

At the Independent, our work is guided by the ethos that our agenda-setting framework must primarily be informed by what furthers the interests of our nation.

We remain committed to promoting initiatives meant to improve the people’s livelihoods.

I have no doubt in the ability to overcome, having seen the resilience of the past decade, but it is not good for us to continue navigating in defence mode. Zimbabwe must return to the growth path.

As the Independent, we are proud to be playing our role in the development of the country’s economy. Hosting this forum is our way of contributing to nation-building and development.

We will continue to knock on your door whenever we feel that we need to, as we rebuild our country.

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate all winners announced today — Prospect Resources, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, Nurture Capital Zimbabwe, Delta

Corporation, Paul Chimbodza and Douglas Munetsi (posthumous).

I urge you to continue innovating and increasing your efforts to rebuild the economy.

A special thanks to our partners, PiggyBankAdvisor for making this event a sucess. Thank you so much to all our speakers today.

Thank you to our sponsors, the Insurance Council of Zimbabwe and Securities Commission of Zimbabwe.

It would be remiss of me not to mention our valued readers and advertisers who continue to support us and enable us to do what we do, which is to provide premium content.

We look forward to continuing to provide cutting-edge products as we accelerate our digital transformation. Once again thank, Your Excellency.