PRAZ Board Chair to grace the WEDO Business conference

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               Advocate Vimbai Nyemba 
Zimbabwe’s prominent legal guru and Procurement Authority of Zimbabwe board Chairperson Advocate Vimbai Nyemba will grace the Women Entrepreneurship Day Business Conference scheduled for the 2nd of June in the City of Masvingo. Nyemba is the Founding partner of V Nyemba and Associates Legal Practitioners. She has sat on several boards chief among them are Vice President SADC Lawyers Association, President of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, Council Member of Council for Higher Education, among others. Currently she is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Harare- Advisory to the Bishop. She is also the President of SADC Lawyers Association.Nyemba has won a number of awards including the African Leadership Awards presented in recognition of distinguished leadership contribution that has inspirational footprints awarded by Legacy Building Leaders on the 20th of March 2022, Businesswoman of the year Platinum Winner of 2021 by Megafest Business Awards, Honorary Award for Leadership Excellence by Zimbabwe CEO’s Network 2021, Outstanding Legal Practitioner of Repute 2021 by CEO’s Network. Nyemba was nominated as one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Zimbabwe by Women Corporate Directors Network in 2021.She has written a book entitled ‘Entrepreneurship through Procurement’. 

The conference will mark the 10th anniversary of WEDO since it was launched at the United Nations in 2013. The day will also see the proclamation of the newly appointed WEDO Ambassador.  Various stakeholders will converge at the Lees Inn Hotel to  celebrate the proclamation of the WEDO Ambassador for Masvingo Province,  Benonia Machavuda .  

Another Guest speaker to note at the Conference is Rugare Makumbe.  Rugare is the Head of Operations at Red Sphere Finance a Subsidiary of CBZ Holdings. She is an enthusiastic young professional and talent management advocate. With more than 12 years in the Finance Industry and remarkable experience in MFI and SME lending, treasury operations, Retail banking, Credit Operations and Credit  management. Rugare has held various positions at Banc Abc and Homelink where she was involved in in the startup and transformation of existing Microfinance Institutions and trebling the loan books in the process. 

 WEDO is a global movement celebrated in more than 144 nations, founded in 2013 at the United Nations, its mission is to empower the 4 billion women across the globe to be catalysts of change, and uplift the 250 million girls living in poverty globally. In addition to our mission of empowerment, we are committed to gathering a think tank of inspiring women leaders who can amplify our message of expanding businesses with social-good initiatives in communities around the world. WEDO appoints Ambassadors in various countries and Regions. 

 The conference is also set to give the opportunity to captains of industry to network and share ideas in the entrepreneurship ecosystem



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