Staff writer
Zimbabwe business tycoon who is also a Board Director at the Africa Business Council-Dr Tinashe Manzungu was recently honoured by the California Metropolitan University with a PHD in Business Administration in recognition of his contribution in business globally.
Manzungu who is also a former president of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce received the honourary following the recently ended London Leaders Without Boarders Annual Business Summit where he was a Guest Speaker.
In his statement, Manzungu expressed his pleasure for the California University’s gesture adding that it was a great honour to receive such a global recognition.
“I was honoured by California University for the tremendous strides we are putting forward in both our own businesses, my country Zimbabwe and the African continent. It is such a great pleasure to be capped by the president of California Metropolitan University with a PHD in Business Administration. (With special recognition to Leadership and management),” he said.
The Leaders Without Boarders Annual Business Summit was held from the 17th to the 19th of May under the theme, “Global Partnerships and Sustainable Investments.” It was attended by high level achieving professionals and diplomats from Africa, USA, Europe, The Middle East, India, and China. It was also graced by world leaders and ministers representing different countries such as Ghana, Mozambique, Mauritius, Dubai, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria among others.
Manzungu was a Guest speaker representing the Africa Business Council and he spoke on Innovations and Productivity as drivers of sustainable economic and social development.
“The platform on which I spoke on was an opportunity to market Zimbabwe and Africa at large, so that the world will know that Africa has a lot of opportunities to create sustainable investments and create commercial success,” said Manzungu.
In his speech, he invited the first world countries to come work with African countries which are mostly emerging economies that have own 2030 economic targets.
“Africa Continental Free Trade Area has a 1.3 million GDP potential hence also invited the globe to come work together with Africa and invest financially in Infrastructure Development Projects and as well mining in keys areas such as Gold, Lithium and Diamond mining and processing since we have the reserves,” added Manzungu.
He said a lot of countries expressed interest and currently in discussing on having meetings to that effect. During the meeting, MOUs were signed between African and European countries and both parties are looking forward to fruitful engagements in their implementation.
The London Leaders Without Boarders Annual Business Summit also saw the establishment of a platform for European companies to invest in sustainable infrastructure projects in Africa.
Manzungu added, “We are happy with the emerging of the Africa Real Estate Association AREA, through this platform it has been agreed to create this platform where the companies from Europe can invest leveraging on the strong African infrastructure grouping , to them it means less risk.
The AREA is platform that was proposed by African countries that are keen or well vested in infrastructure development projects in their countries. It was created by Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, and Mozambique as key players of this association. As Zimbabwe is one of the cofounders, we look forward to seeing more infrastructure projects implemented because of this new big African project.
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