OUR country has gone through an unprecedented economic downturn over the past decade.

The related challenges affecting our industries, public institutions and citizens include the following: high country risk, unavailable and unaffordable infrastructure (water, power, roads/railways, telecoms), low capacity utilisation, low production, under-capitalisation, economic stagnation, skills drain and rampant unemployment.

As the Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe embarks on a mission to address these problems, the starting point should be reducing country risk through rebranding the country, while embarking on a comprehensible infrastructural development and rehabilitation plan.