Mathema urges Danes to invest in Nkayi

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Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Cain Mathema has urged Danish businesspeople to come and invest in Nkayi and other parts of the province in order to spur development in the region.

Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Cain Mathema has urged Danish businesspeople to come and invest in Nkayi and other parts of the province in order to spur development in the region.

BY SILAS NKALA

Mathema made the remarks during the official opening of the Nkayi magistrate courthouse constructed by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) with the assistance of the Royal Danish Embassy.

The JSC and the Danish Embassy have partnered to construct 30 courthouses across the country under a two-year programme. The Nkayi courthouse became the first to be officially opened.

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“I am appealing to the Royal Danish Embassy to assist us by bringing Danish business people to invest in Nkayi to help develop infrastructure here. I am not appealing to the Danish Embassy to build roads, but I am asking them to encourage Danish business people to come here and develop this area,” Mathema said.

He the Danish government was also welcome to start water infrastructure projects in the province.

“Can you please assist us bring businesspeople here to construct dams in Matabeleland North,” Mathema said. “We must have tap water, not only borehole water, here in Nkayi. There is no white person who draws water from boreholes here, but they use tap water. We want people of Nkayi to be able to access water in their homes.”

He urged the private sector to build a hotel in Nkayi to enable seminars for developmental programmes to be held locally.

Mathema, however, went on to attack the West for imposing targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe blaming all the setbacks that Nkayi is facing on the punitive measures.

“We cannot be preaching justice yet we impose sanctions on other countries, so these sanctions must go,” he said.

Mathema also said President Robert Mugabe had sent him to tell the people that they would not starve due to the current food shortages.

“There is hunger here, but the President has sent me to tell you that no one will die of hunger. We do not mind who you are, or which party you belong to, the President is for us all and he has provided some food for all of us,” he said.