Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Dr Amai Grace Mugabe is in Victoria Falls  where she is expected to hand over awards to companies and individuals who excelled in their respective sectors last year.
Mrs Mugabe is attending the function organised by the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce Congress, sponsored by media outlets that include AMH publishers, the Zimbabwe Independent, Financial Gazette and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation.
Last year Mrs Mugabe dived into Zanu PF’s murky succession waters and has had to battle it out within the party with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is also angling himself for her husbands job. Interestingly Mnangagwa will also be addressing the same function.
She was welcomed at the Victoria Falls International Airport by Ministers Mike Bimha, Douglas Mombeshora, Cain Mathema, Clifford Sibanda and National Assembly Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda as well as ZNCC president Davison Norupiri.
Meanwhile Advocate Mudenda earlier told delegates here that Parliament was ready to consider and pass legislation that sought to improve the Ease of Doing Business in Zimbabwe.
He implored industry and commerce to identify laws that impede the Ease of Doing Business and bring petitions before Parliament for their consideration and possible repeal.
In his remarks, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Ray Ndhlukula said the Office of the President and Cabinet was working flat out to make the business environment conducive and attractive to investment.
Some of the interventions included reducing the number of days to register a company as well as amendments to the Procurement Act to decentralise procurement to Government ministries and departments.
Some of the major problems that were identified as impediments to the Ease of Doing Business in Zimbabwe include too many police road blocks, bureaucracy and corruption. Herald