Star FM wins Zim Achievers award

Tafadzwa Zimoyo : Arts Reporter

Popular radio station Star FM has added another accolade to its decorated cabinet after scooping the Best Media Organisation ahead of ZiFM, Daily News, The Herald and NewsDay at Zimbabwe Achievers Awards held at five-star Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London last weekend. The sixth annual awards gala saw Jah Prayzah, Kelvin Ncube, Nyasha Duri, Nicola Holden, Professor Ben Chigara and Nkosinathi Zvimba among others emerging victors.The prestigious show was held under the theme ‘Celebrating Women in Media and the Arts’ and later honoured five women excelling in the media,music and the arts industry.

Head of publicity for Columbia Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Taponeswa Mavunga, Forbes’ Magazine contributor Farai Gundan, award-winning writer Petina Gappah and actress Chipo Chung were among the women who received the Chairman’s special recognition award for making remarkable, consistent and outstanding contributions to the Zimbabwean community in the country and abroad.

In an interview, Zimpapers public relations and cooperate affairs manager Beatrice Tonhodzayi, said was excited with the award as it will go a long way in developing the station.

“As Zimpapers, we are so honoured to have the award.

If you look back since last year, we have been doing immensely well. For us it is a milestone achievement.

This means that our leaders in the organisation are working hard to to make things happen as they are. Getting a recognition in the Diaspora is a great achievement because we have online streaming and our audiences are in many countries. This means we are relevant.

We put our listeners first, taking radio to the people concept has been doing so well,” she said.

The show saw Gemma Griffiths thrilling the crowd as she did her rendition of Winky D’s “Musarova Bigman”.

This years awards were proudly sponsored by Econet and Local Care Force among others.

 

Below is the full list of winners:

 

 

Company of the year:

 

MTM Accountants

 

Female Entrepreneur:

 

Nicola Holden

 

Male Entrepreneur:

 

Nkosinathi Zvimba

 

Business Innovation Award:

 

TafaCakes

 

International Music Artist:

 

Jah Prayzah

 

International Gospel Artist:

 

Tembalami

 

Community Organisation:

 

Makomborero

 

Community Champion:

 

Linda Satimburwa

 

Author/ Academic Award:

 

Professor Ben Chigara

 

Tourism Award:

 

Imbabala Zambezi Safari

 

Fashion Designer:

 

Rahima Mohamed (RAAAH)

 

Sports Personality:

 

Walter Gahadza

 

Radio Presenter/Club DJ:

 

Pelagia Mutake

 

Media Organisation:

 

Star FM

 

Event of the Year:

 

Summer Splash

 

Personality of the Year:

 

Kevin Ncube

 

Peoples Choice:

 

Ofishal Xavier

 

Young Achiever:

 

Nyasha Duri