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Gweru businesswoman Mrs Smelly Dube has been invited to attend an international women in business conference in Shanghai, China, next month where she is expected to raise the country’s flag high as the only Zimbabwean at the prestigious meeting.
Organised by a United States-based organisation, The International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC), the conference, which will run from September 8 to 18, will see powerful business women from across the globe meeting and interacting while exchanging business notes.
The six-day conference will also culminate in some successful business women in the world receiving awards.
According to online sources, the conference, which will be the 11th edition, will see businesswomen from across the world with a combined net worth of $23 billion converging and sharing their business ideas.
In an interview, Mrs Dube said it was her second time to attend the event after she attended the 10th edition in the US last year.
“I am very happy to have been invited to this very important business forum, which is really an eye opener,” she said.
“I attended this conference for the first time in the US and had an opportunity to meet successful business women from across the globe.
“I also had an opportunity to clinch business deals and this year I am much prepared and organised than last time.”
Mrs Dube said this year’s women in business conference came at the right time when the country was coming from a peaceful election, with the new administration led by President Mnangagwa eager to engage and re-engage.
She said she will be flying the Zimbabwean flag high and would take the conference as an opportunity to spread the President’s message that Zimbabwe is open for business.
“I will be meeting high profile business women from all the corners of the world, so it will be a very opportune time for me to take the President’s message that Zimbabwe is open for business,” said Mrs Dube.
“I will take the opportunity to advertise our country so that investors can come and invest in a free, peaceful and new Zimbabwe.”
Online Reporter