By A Correspondent- Speaking at the 5th Global Forum Africa 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa acknowledged the importance of the international community in providing investment capital to revitalise the country’s economy.

He said:

“In terms of infrastructure, our railways, roads, airlines, manufacturing sector and ICT have been left behind.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel and that is why I am here. I believe here we have the people who have the capacity in textiles, who have capacity in diamonds.

We have lots of diamonds, but we have no technology and capital to process them. We export them raw.

We have lots of gold and lithium. I am a lawyer by training, but I understand lithium is very important for the future. We have platinum and so on, but with all these resources, they will remain underground as long as we do not have investment capital coming from outside the country to assist us in extracting them for the purposes of bettering the lives of our people, for the purposes of modernising our economy and creating better conditions for our people.

This is the vision we have, but it can only be realised if we are embraced by the international community, if we put policies that attract investment from the international community.”

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