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Vol. XII Issue V - May 2010
Project Management eJournal
REGIONAL REPORT:
ZIMBABWE Project Management Round Up
By Henry Mkhwananzi MBA, PMP
International Correspondent for PMForum
& PM World Today
Harare, Zimbabwe
Political and Economic Environment Update
The last round of talks between parties to the Government of National Unit (GNU) failed to agree on contentious issues that are preventing the final implementation of the inclusive government. This is despite a deadline of 30 March 2010 having been agreed to during the negotiations’ facilitator South African President Jacob Zuma’s visit to Zimbabwe on 18 March 2010. The failure to resolve the sticking issues leaves Zimbabwe in a state of political uncertainty. Agreements on all peripheral issues such as the Electoral Act amendments where however reached.
Meanwhile the government announced that it was working on a Mid-Term Plan (MTP) as a successor of the Short-Term Economic Recovery Program (STERP). The MTP which is scheduled to be out by June 2010 is meant to consolidate the gains achieved through STERP and guide the economy for the next five years. The announcement was made by the Vice-President Joice Mujuru during her key-note address during the one-day Zimbabwe International Business Conference in Bulawayo recently.
The government extended by another month the deadline for submitting indigenization plans for companies that failed to do so by April 15. The announcement was made by the Youth Development, Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere where he also dismissed reports that the law had been repealed. On the same subject, PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called upon the local business community to fully participate in the ongoing debate on economic indigenization to create consensus that would smoothen the implementation of the law. He said this as part of his opening remarks at a one-day Zimbabwe International Business Conference held at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo…
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Henry Mkhwananzi, PMP International Correspondent Harare, Zimbabwe
Henry Mkhwananzi is founder and president of Quitsun Investments (Pvt.) Ltd, a project management consultancy based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Henry has twenty two years experience working in the ICT field, nine of which were spent managing information systems resources, infrastructure and utilities at senior management levels within a large hospitality concern and a financial services group. He has managed ICT implementation projects for the fastest growing hotel group in Africa, with projects in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Nigeria. Henry was a project manager for a card-based systems integration project for a building society that was being merged with a leading banking group in Zimbabwe. For five years he led several medium to large ICT implementation projects for a leading banking group in Zimbabwe. Mr. Mkhwananzi was a member of the ZIMSWITCH Standards and Specification Working Group that was tasked with specifying ZIMSWITCH message exchange standards and monitoring adherence to these standards by ZIMSWITCH members. ZIMSWITCH runs an electronic funds transfer switching system for domestic payments and transfers in Zimbabwe for the benefit of its member banks. The first four years of his career included hands-on computer programming followed by ten years of business systems planning, development and administration. Henry has lectured on a part-time basis to students studying for the International Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies (NCC Education) where he taught data communications & networking as well as computer programming. Henry has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree, Information Systems Major, from the University of Southern Queensland, Towoomba, Australia (2001) and a Bachelor of Business Studies & Computing Science Degree from the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe (1986). A member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2003, he is PRINCE2 certified (2009) and Six Sigma Green Belt certified (2008). The only PMP in Zimbabwe, Henry hopes to create a local PMI chapter or national project management society in the near future. He can be contacted at pm@quitsun.co.zw or hmkhwananzi@gmail.com. |
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