STAFF REPORTER
Leading pan-African telecoms group, Liquid Telecom has won the Environmental Stewardship Award for excellence in Environmental Management Practices.
The award was presented by CSR Zimbabwe in partnership with the Environmental Management Agency. Liquid was recognised for the role it played in protecting natural resources, reducing impacts to the environment, and promoting environmentally sustainable operations.
“Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe has made substantial strides in creating an environmentally friendly business, and we believe that it is this ongoing commitment that is helping to deliver accelerated economic development in Zimbabwe and expanding job opportunities for its youth,” Liquid Telecom regional chief executive Wellington Makamure said.
The accolade is granted to organisations that have displayed leadership in environmental compliance – associated with the organisation’s activities including the creation and implementation of an environmental awareness management programme, and its corporate social responsibility programme.
As the chosen recipient of this year’s award, Liquid Telecom were commended for continuously reviewing and enhancing its Environmental and Safety risk registers by identifying potential impacts and risks of its activities and end products.
It also put measures in place to mitigate any potential environmental and safety threats whilst complying with environmental legislation and international best practice.
“Liquid Telecom values its employees, contractors, customers, and the environment in which we operate.
We therefore recognise the importance of continuously reviewing our integrated approach to safety as well as responsible and sustainable Environmental Management,” Makamure said.
Liquid Telecom is a leading communications solutions provider across 13 countries primarily in Eastern, Southern and South Africa that serves mobile operators, carriers, enterprise, media and content companies and retail customers.
It has built Africa’s largest independent fibre network, stretching more than 73,000km, and operates state-of-the-art data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Harare and Kigali, with a combined potential 19,000square metres of rack space and 78 MW of power.
It also offers cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure across its fibre footprint.
