‘African Development Comes From Within’: Dr Tinashe Manzungu

By Sunday Express Correspondent Southern African Real Estate Developer and Construction expert Dr Tinashe Manzungu has warned African countries against sitting on their laurels whilst waiting for other countries to develop the continent. He urged the continent to take advantage of its massive population to in developing. Manzungu who is a senior vice-president of the Zimbabwe Building Contractors Association and an immediate past president of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) made these remarks during his presentation at the 4th edition of the Jamie Pajoel Intermational (JPI) Annual Conference in Rwanda recently. His presentation which was dubbed ‘Unlocking Africa's prosperity through Investment in Real Estate and Construction’ emphasised on the need for business people in the private sector to work hand in hand with their governments to strengthen the continent’s economy. “Africa has a massive growing population of 2.5 billion and already that makes a very strong market.