Africa-Press – Eswatini. Eswatini business professionals have been invited to exploit huge business opportunities that are available in the Republic of Mozambique.
The invitation was extended on June 9, 2025 at Royal Villas by Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo. This was during the meeting between President Chapo and the business professionals from Eswatini (Business Eswatini) and Mozambique (Confederation of Private Sectors and Economic Association of Mozambique).
The meeting is part of the working visit undertaken by President Chapo to the Kingdom of Eswatini, which started today from 11am when he arrived in the country.
The working visit of the president will end on June 10, 2025.
Delivering his powerful remarks through an aid of an interpreter, President Chapo minced no words in declaring to Business Eswatini (BE) that Mozambique had vast opportunities in many different sectors, including energy and tourism.
He said Mozambique had natural gas and coal, minerals that could be useful in generating electricity. He also mentioned that in Mozambique, they had rivers, sun, and even wind.
All these things could be used to produce electricity in a way that could be friendly to the environment. He also mentioned that they had plans of building power stations to produce more energy so that they could supply electricity to many countries in the SADC region, including Eswatini.
He said they wanted to construct a 540MW power plant in Inhambane, which could also be beneficial to Eswatini and other SADC countries.
In the tourism sector, President Chapo said they had a long coastline and beautiful islands, which could be attractive to tourists.
BE Chairperson Mvuselelo Fakudze delivering his remarks as the country welcomed the Mozambican President H.E Daniel Chapo who is on a one-day State visit.
However, the president mentioned that they a lot of work to do in that sector and he noted that Eswatini was on the right track. He made an example of what he identified as golf tourism.
He said South Africa, for instance, had more than 500 golf courses, with Eswatini also having many of them. However, Mozambique only has one golf course, which was also not fully developed.
He emphasised on Mozambique having one, provoking laughter from the people who were listening. He said Mozambique had a lot to learn from Eswatini in that aspect so that businesspeople could be able to network, enhancing improved production from their businesses.
Chapo stated that businesspeople did not like networking in only one golf course, hence the need to develop many of them in Mozambique.
He called upon the Confederation of Private Sectors and Economic Association of Mozambique (CTA) to work together with BE to ensure that businesspeople from Eswatini were able to make use of the opportunities presented to them by Mozambique.
The president said together, these two countries could be able invest and produce more in the fields of agriculture, transport, education, and in other fields, stating that the two countries could learn from each other in this aspect.
Present during the meeting was Minister of Health Mduduzi Matsebula, who was representing Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade Manqoba Khumalo.
Also present was Minister of Home Affairs Princess Lindiwe, who was representing Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Pholile Shakantu.
In his remarks, Matsebula expressed gratitude to the presence of President Chapo. He described his presence as a way of showing how committed Mozambique was in showing that the South-East African country wanted to work with Eswatini for the development of both countries.
Mozambican President Daniel Chapo delivering his speech after landing in the country on Monday
Business Eswatini (BE) President Mvuselelo Fakudze also thanked the president and the business leaders of Mozambique for the event.
He pleaded with all of them to work together in ensuring that they removed any barriers that could hinder business and economic growth in both countries.
State Secretary for Industry in the Republic of Mozambique Custodia Paunde also highlighted a need for both countries to create one stop shops in both countries to ensure that they reduced any bottlenecks that could be present.
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