Story by Farai Gwaze
ZIMBABWEAN engineering and construction excellence was recognised at the inaugural National Project Management Awards held in Harare on Friday. The awards honoured companies and institutions for their significant contributions to public infrastructure development, highlighting local capacity in delivering complex projects.
Award recipients expressed pride in their achievements and reflected on notable projects, including dams, bridges, and the Trabablas interchange, which showcased innovation, technical skill, and commitment to quality.
“Our vice chancellor said this is the year of bearing fruit, and we are seeing the fruits being yielded indeed. With his visionary leadership, we are really innovating,” an award winner said.
“We are just proud to be honoured as evergreen construction on the project management public infrastructure, for the construction of dams, dam walls and bridges,” another award Recipient said.
“We are happy and grateful. We would like to thank the government of Zimbabwe for trusting us locals to do this massive project. We were awarded on the basis of the Trabablas interchange,” a winner said.
The Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Honourable Polite Kambamura, who officiated at the ceremony, commended the organisers for recognising homegrown talent.
“We want to appreciate the organisation for being Zimbabwean in representing and recognising Zimbabwean talent. I would like to urge other companies to follow suit, and those who are into project management to follow the standards and to keep building our country. The president always says the country is built by its own people, we do not need to wait for foreign project managers, our own people can do it, and this is testament enough that Zimbabweans can do it,” he said.
Event organiser, Professor Procter Nyemba, stated that the awards serve to showcase tangible national progress.
“These awards are there to share with the country and the world to show that there is great progress happening in the country. It is also a way for citizens to know that Vision 2030 is real, projects are being done,” he said.
The awards ceremony is a powerful affirmation of the Second Republic’s philosophy of self-reliance and domestic capacity building, demonstrating that Zimbabweans are not only capable of managing but excelling in the execution of complex national projects central to the achievement of Vision 2030.
