From The ZimDiaspora.com
THE Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called upon the Government and the private sector to embark on programmes that facilitate the formulation of strategies to lure back skilled Zimbabweans who had left the country as a result of the economic meltdown.
He also called on trade unions to encourage their members to effectively apply themselves in the workplace in order to ensure sustainable productivity that would help in the turn-around of the economy.
In a message read on his behalf by Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office, Mr Gorden Moyo at the annual Senior Human Resources Executives Forum in Harare on Wednesday, Prime Minister Tsvangirai lauded the forum organisers for a well thought theme – Transition – A Human Capital Perspective, that he said fitted in well with the Government crafted Short Term Emergency Recovery Programme (STERP).
Prime Minister Tsvangirai said the forum, organised by the Institute of People Management in Zimbabwe (IPMZ) came at an opportune time when the Government was battling with transitional challenges that called for participatory and co-ordinated interventions to issues of the country’s productive human capital.
He said the new political dispensation called for the restoration of work ethics that inculcated a culture of skills application and the dignity of hard and honest work that had been destroyed by the get-rich-quick syndrome brought about by a thriving black market.
“A nation can only be as good as its human resource base and the greatest tragedy of human life is to go to the grave with talent that has not been unlocked,” Prime Minister Tsvangirai said.
He expressed sincere hope that forums of this nature would provide frameworks that enabled participants to critically look at issues that affect human capital.
Other presenters at the forum were the Minister of Labour and Social Services Ms Paurina Mpariwa, the Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, Cde Mike Bimha and the Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (EMCOZ) president, Mr David Govere.
