PRINCE EDWARD SCHOOL pupils have just launched Zimbabwe’s first Car “Manufacturing Company”. For the first time since independence in 1980, the nation is set to have its first locally designed automobile.
The announcement was made during a special function on Friday in Harare attended by industry and government heads where the school emphatically revealed this is not a project to assemble vehicles, but to manufacture them. The car’s preliminary design can be seen on the function’s brochures (in pictures). Zimbabwe last manufactured its own vehicles in the 1970s when it was under the Ian Smith government.
Since then all that the nation simply needed to kickstart as a manufacturing country, was just one person sitting down on their computer to design their model. Automotive design which is the developing of the aesthetics of the vehicle, is part and parcel of the creation of the product concept, according to Vivek D. Bhise (Ergonomics in The Automotive Design Process, 2016). But the Zim government has for 36 years routinely spent millions of dollars importing top of the range foreign made cars against a struggling economy. This will however soon be no more thanks to Prince Edward school kids who are determined to create more than just a digital model.
ZimEye.com’s Simbarashe Chikanza caught up with the school’s Head of the Science Club, Mrs Princess Mushonga who gave the below brief interview:
The Intermediate Technology Development Group’s former officer, Miriam Mushayi applauded the development.
“For once it is refreshing to hear such amazing news coming out of Zimbabwe. This is clear testimony that given the right king of support, environment, Zimbabweans have the potential not only to scale to greater heights but to compete with the best in every other field be it innovation, self sufficiency and human capital expertise,” she said.
She continued, “We hope the nation will not only celebrate this wonderful achievement but patent it, nurture it and ensure these entrepreneurs establish an automobile industry with the trademark Made in Zimbabwe.
“We also want to see tax incentives for this initiative and let the innovation grow without rules and regulations stifling its growth.
“Who would have thought that in these difficult times we would be hearing of such an achievement in this country where everything is going wrong.”
Also commenting, the UK based Zim Achievers Awards director, Conrad Mwanza said:”We celebrate and encourage Innovation, Zimbabwe needs more projects and people like this and we should move away from confrontational politics to solution driven dialogue and poverty busting projects like this that will create employment and a living for our people.”
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All of you putting down these kids achievement are idiots. You sit and criticise but what are you doing about your problem. You go fix the road you go figure out the most efficient way to get water. The kids chose cars to improve their lives which they can use to create jobs and export to help the economy. Ask yourself what you were doing with your life at their age nothing I bet. Try to use your brain not your mouth all the time
All of you putting down these kids achievement are idiots. You sit and criticise but what are you doing about your problem. You go fix the road you go figure out the most efficient way to get water. The kids chose cars to improve their lives which they can use to create jobs and export to help the economy. Ask yourself what you were doing with your life at their age nothing I bet. Try to use your brain not your mouth all the time
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Which cars does South Africa manufacture? Give us the names here
Which cars does South Africa manufacture? Give us the names here
South Africa manufactures actually – they have full plants not just assembly like Willowvale. The car BRANDS are foreign like Mercedes, VW – but they fully MANUFACTURE the vehicles zvechokwadi. Its not mere assembly. There are also two ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN designed and manufactured sports cars. They are very exclusive.
South Africa manufactures actually – they have full plants not just assembly like Willowvale. The car BRANDS are foreign like Mercedes, VW – but they fully MANUFACTURE the vehicles zvechokwadi. Its not mere assembly. There are also two ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN designed and manufactured sports cars. They are very exclusive.
Zimbabwe has never manufactured cars.Even South Africa does not manufacture cars. They just assemble , putting together imported kits from abroad.
Zimbabwe has never manufactured cars.Even South Africa does not manufacture cars. They just assemble , putting together imported kits from abroad.
Hawuva zive here ava . Chese Chaka naka vanovenga pamusaka pe government. Hanzi tese tiri makudo naivo vasingadi kuwona vanhu nevarungu vachiwirirana vachiita zvaka naka. Ana rhodesia ndivo Ana Satan.
Hawuva zive here ava . Chese Chaka naka vanovenga pamusaka pe government. Hanzi tese tiri makudo naivo vasingadi kuwona vanhu nevarungu vachiwirirana vachiita zvaka naka. Ana rhodesia ndivo Ana Satan.
You can’t even look after your own parents wakuuya pano uchitinyaudza.
You can’t even look after your own parents wakuuya pano uchitinyaudza.
Get away, anything sounding good about Zim and one praises, he is labelled a ZANU PF supporter, so this means all the opposition supporters are idiots who can not tell what is good, all they need is to scream and shout trash. i better be a zanu pf supporter, because there is no better option.
Get away, anything sounding good about Zim and one praises, he is labelled a ZANU PF supporter, so this means all the opposition supporters are idiots who can not tell what is good, all they need is to scream and shout trash. i better be a zanu pf supporter, because there is no better option.
Reality is a real pain mate, you cant cross a bridge before you get to it. Zimbabwe doesn’t need this high school science fantasy, it needs to restore basic services first like clean tap water. What is the point of manufacturing a car which these days is a sophisticated process when we cant even construct and maintain the roads. The problem here is that these students have grown up in a messed up Zimbabwe they don’t even know how far Zimbabwe had gone in terms of development. We have the capacity to make spaceships but there is no point when we even can’t guarantee our girls and women adequate affordable tampons and pads first.
Reality is a real pain mate, you cant cross a bridge before you get to it. Zimbabwe doesn’t need this high school science fantasy, it needs to restore basic services first like clean tap water. What is the point of manufacturing a car which these days is a sophisticated process when we cant even construct and maintain the roads. The problem here is that these students have grown up in a messed up Zimbabwe they don’t even know how far Zimbabwe had gone in terms of development. We have the capacity to make spaceships but there is no point when we even can’t guarantee our girls and women adequate affordable tampons and pads first.
Zviroto ngazvive ZVIROTO! Give us details.
Zviroto ngazvive ZVIROTO! Give us details.
Lucifer is masquerading as Gabriel so ignore his crass biassed pessimistic nonsense. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN if the government in Harare appointed ministers and public servants ON MERIT Zimbabwe would be a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY.
Lucifer is masquerading as Gabriel so ignore his crass biassed pessimistic nonsense. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN if the government in Harare appointed ministers and public servants ON MERIT Zimbabwe would be a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY.
howi will u manufacture the cars without WATER? ur a zanu pf agent!!
howi will u manufacture the cars without WATER? ur a zanu pf agent!!
Kushora chete ndokwamunogona. Chakanaka tendaiwo, chakaipa shorai. Right now hazvizi zvemvura. Ngatitaure zvemvura mumwe musi. Infant iwe chawagona chii
Kushora chete ndokwamunogona. Chakanaka tendaiwo, chakaipa shorai. Right now hazvizi zvemvura. Ngatitaure zvemvura mumwe musi. Infant iwe chawagona chii
Zimbabwe has had a lot of “firsts” since its economic down turn. The real first I can acknowledge is that someone born ten years ago in Mabvuku might not know that water comes out of a tap…….That is a “first” which is a reality not these hallucinations inspired by YouTube…… Let us revive industries like Willowvale and Quest Motors and desist from seeking Messiahs from these Zim Science students….