The engineering industry in Zimbabwe evolved as a manufacturing and servicing network to support early efforts to develop the country’s natural resources: Agriculture, Mining, Tourism, Infrastructure, commerce etc.       The enabling structures of engineering became a core sector of the economy and progressively embraced metal extraction and refining, alloying, foundries, fabricating, machining assembly; all adding value, creating companies, jobs and demand for skills. In 1937 as labour became unionized and the industry became more sophisticated, it was evident that industrial relations would become central to creating growth and stability in the economy. So a group of industrialists come together…