Harare, (New Ziana) –Zimbabwean manufacturers have been urged to contribute towards the crafting of the National Industrialisation Policy in order to have ownership over the plan for action.

Ministry of Industry and Commerce permanent secretary Dr Thomas Utete made the call while addressing captains of industry at the launch of the 2024 manufacturing sector survey in the capital on Monday.

“We expect to see manufacturers putting a dollar on the table for its creation. It will be your policy and you need to put money on the table and effort and brain power so that it is truly yours.

“When it is truly yours and ours we will have that optimism, you will know where we are going off course, and you will have access to come back to us without just complaining,” he said.

Dr Ushe Utete said the government wants to see enhanced re-industrialisation as well as creation of new industries and technologies that will see enable the country to become an upper middle income society by 2030.

He said as the Government is in the process of implementing the Zimbabwe Industrial Reconstruction and Growth Plan 2024-25 that feeds into the National Development Strategy 2 (2026-30), the manufacturing sector should also bring in its input into the blue print.

The government, he said, is doing a lot to ensure a conducive operating environment, including the introduction of the local content strategy, for which a committee has since been set up to drive the process.

“Government is implementing strategies to enhance local content and we hope that you will be able to support it,” said Dr Utete.

New Ziana