Mugabe says protests don’t pay

Ladies and gentlemen, the energy and power situation in Zimbabwe has improved significantly in 2016. This mainly due to various measures Government has recently implemented. Government has embarked on the Kariba South Power Station Extension Project, which is on target for completion by 2018 and the Hwange Power Station which is set to commence by year end.

These two projects alone when completed, should add 900 Megawatts to the national grid.

Meanwhile, the Rural Electrification Programme has so far connected 8 579 Government institutions, but 3 580 institutions, mainly primary schools, are yet to be electrified countrywide.

Fellow Zimbabweans, comrades and friends; in terms of road infrastructure, I am pleased to note and inform you that meaningful strides have been made to improve national highways and rural gravel roads.

In this regard, I note with satisfaction, the dualisation, the completion of the rehabilitation and widening of the 823km between Plumtree and Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare Road and the recent opening of the Harare-Goromonzi road dualisation.

Further, Government is committed to recapitalise the National Railways of Zimbabwe in order to improve the transportation of bulk goods by rail.

Ladies and gentlemen, in Information Communication Technology sector, Government is accelerating the establishment of Community Information Centres throughout the country. To date, there are functional such centres in Murombedzi, Mapisa, Mutoko, Rusape, Mupandawana and Muzarabani, Sadza and Mubaira.

Community Information Centres are very important as you know for purposes of giving information about the local areas.

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