President Commissions Another Signature Project

President Mnangagwa and Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga are led on a tour of Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe mine processing plant during the commissioning ceremony in Goromonzi yesterday. — Picture: Believe Nyakudjara

Fungi Kwaramba

Zimpapers Elections Desk

THE adoption of a rapid results approach by the Second Republic was on display yesterday as President Mnangagwa commissioned a US$300 million lithium plant that was constructed in a record nine months in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East Province. When he came to power in 2018, the President declared Zimbabwe is “Open for Business”, and embraced the whole world with his pillar foreign policy anchored by the mantra, “friend to all and enemy to none” through engagement and re-engagement. Both policies are bearing fruit as investors flock into the country attracted by the ease of doing business and an investor-friendly environment. The signature lithium project also demonstrates that even against all odds, Zanu PF is unstoppable in its quest to ensure the country becomes an upper-middle-class economy by 2030. Yesterday, President Mnangagwa commissioned the Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) spodumene, palatine, and tantalum processing plant as he continues to deliver on his pledge of delivering development that leaves no one and no place behind. “I recall that in November 2018, we convened here when this area was merely an empty field, for the groundbreaking ceremony commencing initial work at this site. In June 2021, we were back here to commission the pilot petalite processing plant which was a precursor to this bigger and more advanced processing plant with a total capacity of 4.5 million tonnes per year. “As we look back, Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe is one of the many testimonies of the successes of the Second Republic under the “Zimbabwe is Open for Business” mantra and Engagement and Re-Engagement Policy. ReadMore