According to the governor of the central Mozambican province of Manica, Soares Nhaca, the economic crisis in Zimbabwe is leading to a flight of Zimbabwean skilled workers into Mozambique, looking for employment.
Speaking to AIM in the provincial capital, Chimoio, Nhaca said that Manica has been one of the beneficiaries of this Zimbabwean exodus. Currently the province is absorbing many skilled Zimbabwean construction workers.
There is plenty of work for them to do: Chimoio is an expanding city, and several large scale construction jobs are under way.
Nhaca paid tribute to the skills of the Zimbabweans. It was thanks to them, he said, that many recent buildings in Chimoio are of high quality.
Due to the vocational education available in Zimbabwe, the country has a large pool of skilled workers, and many more specialists in various building trades than Mozambique has. So building companies in Manica are eager to recruit Zimbabwean labour.
The Zimbabwean building workers are following in the footsteps of several dozen Zimbabwean commercial farmers. Driven off their land in the chaotic occupations that the Harare authorities call a land reform, they have been welcomed as investors in Manica. They have been allocated land, and are producing both for the local market and for export, creating many jobs for Mozambican farm workers.
Fonte: AIM
