Business woman scoops top award

Sunday Mail Correspondent

FOUNDER and operations director of Gainquip (Pvt) Ltd Ms Anorah Sibanda recently won the Professional Women, Women Executives and Business Women’s Forum (Proweb) Businesswoman of the Year award in recognition of her business acumen and leadership skills. She shrugged off challenges from other contending women on the awards night to emerge the winner.

“She is a force to reckon with in the areas of cash handling and weighing systems, that is, money counters, fake note detectors, foreign exchange rate boards and weighing scales,” said her company in a statement.

“She defied all gender barriers by becoming the first female legal metrologist in Zimbabwe.

“For the banking sector, she has designed a low-cost digital screen to project foreign exchange rates and, at the same time, show advertisements. “The same digital screen is being upgraded to have exchange rates changed centrally.” In 2019, she was awarded the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce Businesswoman of the Year accolade in the manufacturing sector and has also been honoured for her contribution to the industry by the International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Foundation.

In 2021, she landed the Small and Medium Enterprises in Zimbabwe Local Legends Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award.

A toastmaster and president-elect for the Rotary Club of Harare Central, she is also the chairperson of the Diplomat Appreciation Trust and a board member of the Diplomat Business Networking Club.