The government is planning to invest in the value addition of minerals in a bid to create more jobs as well as increasing foreign currency earnings.
By Shantel Chisango
Working towards the 2030 Vision, through The National Development Strategy (NDS1) government says it is determined to enhance the mining sector by investing towards exploration, beneficiation, and value addition of minerals.
“NDS1 is going to enhance investment in mining towards exploration, beneficiation and value addition of minerals including levelling the field to accommodate small scale miners will create more jobs and increase foreign currency earnings for the country,” the government said on their Twitter handle.
#Vision2030 #GameChanger#NDS1 is going to enhance investment in mining towards exploration, beneficiation and value addition of minerals including levelling the field to accommodate small scale miners will create more jobs and increase foreign currency earnings for the country. pic.twitter.com/5FlZRFFOFH
— NDS1 (@ZimGvt_NDS1) February 16, 2021
NDS1 is a strategy used towards attaining the objectives of Vision 2030 and it is the first 5-year Medium Term Plan aimed at realising the country’s Vision 2030, while simultaneously addressing the global aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa Agenda 2063.
The NDS1 is premised on four critical guiding principles. The first is a recognition that bold and transformative measures are required to underpin the drive towards the attainment of our Vision 2030. Slow and incremental change will not deliver the transformation that the people of Zimbabwe deserve.