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ZIMBABWEAN companies have been invited to participate at the upcoming Kwazulu-Natal Export Week to be held in South Africa at the end of the month.

The event is a trade and investment exhibition organised by the Trade and Investment KwaZulu Natal (TIKZN) in South Africa.

“The South African Embassy has received correspondence from Trade and Investment KwaZulu Natal (TIKZN) a provincial trade and investment agency based in South Africa.

“They’re inviting Zimbabwean companies to their upcoming KZN Export Week that will be held in Durban from October 26 to30,” said the South African Embassy in an invitation to the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC).

Organisers of the event were targeting firms in sectors such as chemicals, furniture, clothing and textiles and pharmaceuticals.

Interested firms should contact the local South African Embassy for more details.

Zimbabwean companies have on many occasions participated at trade exhibitions outside the country at regional and international level in countries such as South Africa, Angola, Zambia, Italy, China and the United Kingdom.

In September, ZNCC members took part at the Bauma Conexpo Africa 2015 International Trade Fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machinery and construction vehicles that took place at the Johannesburg Expo Centre.

The expo attracted exhibitors from all over the world. The exhibitors were bound to gain access to the African market.  The Zimbabwean business community is invited to participate at the event so as establish an emerging market of Africa.

Participating at exhibitions outside the country is critical in indentifying new markets for finished products by local companies.

Zimbabwe’s export sector is at the moment not competitive owing to a number of challenges facing the local manufacturing sector.

Players from the private sector and the government have called for concerted efforts to resuscitate the country’s export sector so as to balance the gap between exports and imports, which has remained skewed towards imports.