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Founder of Love Zimbabwe charity 1137434 and Love Zimbabwe Fair Trade company. Martha has reached over 300 Welsh schools teaching Fairtrade. She is the only resident Fairtrade producer who has helped set up 15 workers’ co-operatives in Zimbabwe. A very ethically minded person who educates communities about Fair trade and …

Charity Chiratidzo Jinya is a Zimbabwean banker who was appointed as the first female Managing Director (MD) of the Merchant Bank of Central Africa Bank Limited (MBCA) (established in 1956, a subsidiary of Ned Bank Group of South Africa) in 2010. She has also served on various boards of numerous …

Troubled flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, has failed to pay staff salaries for the month of May, it has emerged. President Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore is chief operating officer at the crippled airline. A memo to the company’s 400-plus employees from acting human resources manager, one T Jayirai, confirmed the …

President Robert Mugabe has arrived in New York for a summit on oceans, the state media reports. As Zimbabwe is a landlocked country, the news of Mugabe’s latest trip has been greeted with shock and ridicule particularly coming soon after his return from Mexico where he attended a conference on …

Rudo Boka, who runs her family’s Tobacco auction house in Harare, on the auction floor. Rudo Boka had a rough start to her entrepreneurial career. The first born of seven, she was at the front of the line to take over her father’s business dynasty when her parents passed away …

Captain Chipo Matimba #Zimbabwe Pilot #ZimBabes Mandishona Donson Matimba and Anne Chipoyera of Harare raised nine children, the five girls were treated equally with boys as roles in the household were not allocated according to gender. Then, girls would ride roughshod over bikes and were allowed the adventures now mostly …

PROFESSOR Hope Sadza is a multi award-winning academic who has distinguished herself in Zimbabwe’s tertiary education sector. From her humble beginnings in the Public Service Commission, Sadza took bold strides towards achieving her lifetime dream of establishing a women’s university that boasts of notable success in Zimbabwean education. An accomplished …

Gifted with natural charisma that inspires people from all walks of life, Dr. Trent’s compelling story motivates people to fight for their own dreams, as well as the dreams of others. Dr. Trent’s new picture book, The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can (Viking Books), is based on her …

UKAid and Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa will on June 14 launch a competition to identify and support enterprising financial solutions in Zimbabwe. BY BUSINESS REPORTER In a statement yesterday, FSD Africa official, Joe Huxley said the competition formed a key part of FSD’s commitment to making financial markets work …

Mrs. Viola  M Chasi is currently the Managing Director at GN Mlotshwa & Company/Tital Law Chambers and is also a Legal and Business Consultant at Palladium Strategy and Consultants Zimbabwe. She was previously employed at CBZ Holdings Zimbabwe as Group Legal Corporate Secretary from 2005 to 2012. Viola is a …