Great Zimbabwe Times

By Angeline Zimbwani Mikiri Shekinah media will host the end of year Business and networking Cocktail at The Flamboyant Hotel. The cocktail seeks to bring captains of Industry, business leaders and City Fathers together to come up with ways to bring greatness to The City of Masvingo.The Town Clerk for The City of Masvingo,Engineer Edward Mukaratirwa will grace the Cocktail, which is dubbed the "Arena of Greatness . The Town clerk will share his vision for the City of Masvingo. He will also outline the role of the City Council in promoting socio economic development. He will also highlight investment opportunities in the City and how investors can tap into opportunities. Potential Investors will be in a position to interact with the Town Clerk and get clarity on issues affecting the growth of the City. Those in the diaspora and those who cannot make it to the cocktail will be able to participate virtually as the event will be live on facebook pages and on Zoom. Registration

She is an experienced multi-faceted, accomplished Zimbabwean woman entrepreneur who is a seasoned chrome miner owning a small scale mining operation in Mashonaland Central, an agriculturist currently farming horticultural products and rearing breeding livestock. She is also a partner in a beverage manufacturing company. Having grown up being exposed to a business environment as her father was invested in tourism, manufacturing and agriculture. Lindiwe Mpofu sought throughout her working life to expose herself to various international and local economic sectors in both a professional capacity and business owner capacity. She believes this has given her invaluable experience in running her own operations successfully, despite being a woman in some of the more male dominated sectors she has chosen to operate in. A former Vice President of Zimbabwe Miners Federation and recognised as one of the most inspirational and influential women in mining and named amongst the top 40 small sca

Ten girls from various schools in Bikita District walked away with certificates, cash prizes, stationery, and hygiene packs at an essay writing competition prize giving ceremony held over the weekend. The competition launched by Mambure Trust, a girl rights organisation, targeted girls aged between 11 and 17 years enrolled at any of the primary and secondary schools in Bikita District. The essay writing competition was initiated to commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child. Primary School learners wrote essays on the importance of sending girls to school, while secondary school learners wrote about how Covid-19 lockdowns affected girls in their communities. The essays were marked by selected teachers in the district under the supervision of the Bikita District Schools Inspector (DSI) Mr James Mahofa and Mrs Chioniso Maradza, one of the Schools Inspectors. Makanaka Zaba of Bikita Fashu School and Britney Chivasa from Chisungo School both scooped first prize in the secondary

By Angeline Zimbwani Mikiri. Women are born with different shades which are meant to function in various facets of life. I have come to realize that there is no limitation in the make of a woman. You cannot say one function of a woman and conclude. Phenomenal men and women have been raised by some brave women who even up to now they feel inferior or think lowly of themselves. Yet they have done remarkable things in the world. I have always given an example of my late mother who ran a home in the absence of my father who was working in the City. My late mother was a commercial farmer in a communal set up. She would harvest tons and tons of maize and sell to the Grain Marketing Board. I remember the other time when she bought a plough, a scotch cart and a cultivator. She then called my uncle Enock Rwodzi to come and write a family name on our green scotch cart with a red paint and he wrote ‘ Mr James Kembo Zimbwani and his Son”. Though she had worked hard to buy all thes