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Mashonaland Central Bureau
Mbire district, one of the remotest in Mashonaland Central, will host its first ever investment conference for Kanyemba Border Post at the border of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique, as it moves to attracted development in the area. The conference is set to unlock value from a multifarious array of untapped natural resources such as minerals, wildlife, the Zambezi River frontage, tourism, cross-border trading between Kanyemba in Zimbabwe, Luangwa in Zambia and Zumbo in Mozambique, among other things. Mbire Rural District Council chairperson Councillor Clever Chidongo confirmed the investment conference slated for the last week of November.

“We have just done a pre-investment conference in Harare as a curtain-raiser,” he said. ‘‘We want to attract investors.” The move comes as the Government has started rehabilitating the road to Kanyemba, which when completed, will shorten the route from Harare to Lusaka by 500 kilometres.

Government is also constructing a landing bay on the Zambezi River at Kanyemba to facilitate easy crossing over the giant river. Kanyemba is a village in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located on the south bank of the Zambezi River at the extreme northernmost point of Zimbabwe at the meeting point of the Zimbabwean, Mozambican and Zambian borders. The border post, at the confluence of Zambezi and Luangwa rivers, is a crossing point to Zumbo in Mozambique, Luangwa in Zambia and Kanyemba in Zimbabwe and is fast becoming a major economic zone. Investment in the area has over the years been restricted to tourism – lodges, hunting and fishing. The investment conference is the first of its kind and is expected to draw delegates from captains of industry, which include those from small to medium enterprises, hoteliers and retailers.