The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government are expected to tour our site in Pomona on Sunday where we will showcase modern and innovative ways of waste management to the regional leaders.
Our waste to energy plant is the first of its kind in the SADC region, and the Presidents will get a chance to learn about our incredible journey of how we have turned trash to treasure.
His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa – who is the incoming SADC Chairman – is expected to lead the high-powered delegation to our site on Sunday 18 August, 2024.
Zimbabwe is hosting the 44th SADC Summit in Harare, and our waste management project has caught the eye of regional leaders if recent comments of the SADC Executive Secretary His Excellency Elias Magosi are anything to go by.
As part of the preparations for the SADC Summit, Magosi visited our site last month, and was impressed by what he described as a “benchmark for the region”.
At that time, Magosi said: “For us, we see it as a regional project and when member states come here; especially Presidents when they come for the SADC Summit in August, they will be motivated to implement such projects in their countries. So, it’s a wonderful facility.
“I think it’s a good initiative; it’s the correct initiative because waste is a major problem the World over. This is the first such a facility of this nature in our region; this is a benchmark for the region. This is a basis for all the member states to come and see how to manage waste.”
Magosi said the anticipation was that there will be other cities in Zimbabwe and in SADC where our project will be replicated.
Geo Pomona Waste Management Pvt Ltd CEO and Executive Chairman Dr Dilesh Nguwaya and his team are expected to welcome the SADC Heads of State and Government on 18 August.
Dr Nguwaya has said our project was “the first of its kind in Southern Africa. It can also be adopted and implemented in other regional countries”.
President Mnangagwa did the ground-breaking ceremony of our site where we will produce 16-22MW of electricity to be fed into national grid.
SADC is on an industrialisation drive and our project fits in well in the vision as we have adopted modern technologies to turn waste to energy.
There is the Southern African Power Pool where electricity can be fed, according to Magosi.
