Zimbabwe Regains Place in the Sun

Fungi Kwaramba in VICTORIA FALLS

FIVE presidents, 80 countries, 120 exhibitors and more than 2 000 people were in Victoria Falls yesterday as Zimbabwe reaps huge dividends from President Mnangagwa’s engagement and re-engagement drive. Sidelined for years because of the negative publicity from the Western media and negative perception wrought by illegal Western imposed sanctions, Zimbabwe is now slowly reclaiming its place in the sun with the Transform Africa Summit, the biggest Information, Communication Technology event on the African calendar, taking place in the country. President Mnangagwa hosted his counterparts from Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda and Eswatini for the summit that is running under the theme “Innovate-Connect and Transform”, in the city where the mighty Zambezi River plunges for about 250 metres to give the world the natural wonder known as Mosi oa Tunya locally and internationally as the Victoria Falls. In 2020, President Mnangagwa launched the National Tourism Recovery and Growth Strategy (NTRGS) which enunciates Government strategies to lead and fund marketing efforts designed to re-establish contact with local, regional and international tourism markets, and that was all too apparent as the country’s First Citizen invited delegates to explore the city of Victoria Falls. “I once again invite you to take time off your busy schedule to visit the Victoria Falls, which is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World as well as undertake other activities on the mighty Zambezi River,” said President Mnangagwa. Through the summit, which brings together the continent’s best brains in ICT, Zimbabwe also had an opportunity to showcase its investment opportunities, promote its economic potential and attract new investments into the country not only for the ICT sector but the broader economic spectrum. ReadMore