Mr Wellington Makamure, Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe Managing Director and Group Executive for Southern Africa, recently scooped the prestigious 2017 ZNCC Business Leadership award. Mr Makamure got the award at the ZNCC National Congress held on June 28, 2018.
The awards ceremony, which was held in the resort town of Victoria Falls, was graced by various captains of industry and business leaders. The award is Mr Makamure’s latest feather in his business leadership cap. He has won two other Business Leadership awards this year alone, at the ZNCC Mashonaland Region Business awards as well as the Zimbabwe Institute of Management Leadership awards.
ZNCC pioneered the Business Leadership award to salute and recognise remarkable business leaders, who through strength, innovation and foresight, induce positive changes in an evolving corporate Zimbabwe. These business leaders are recognised annually at the awards ceremony.
A notable business leader, Mr Makamure, was recognised for his outstanding leadership at telecoms giant Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe. Under his stewardship, the company has grown to be the biggest independent data, voice and IP provider in Zimbabwe.
The company has also managed to connect major cities and towns on fibre in less than six years, being the first provider to do so in Zimbabwe. These cities and towns include Harare, Norton, Chegutu, Kadoma, Kwekwe, Gweru, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Hwange, Kariba, Chirundu, Karoi, Bindura, Mutare, Chiredzi, Masvingo, Gwanda, Zvishavane, Beitbridge and Plumtree.
Reacting to his latest achievement, Mr Makamure said:
“This is a delightful honour to be recognised by ZNCC in this way. “It is gratifying to provide telecoms solutions to our consumers that make their lives better every day. We are continually working to ensure that everyone everywhere is connected in Zimbabwe. It is often said that ‘a leader is only as good as the team he leads’ and I owe it to my Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe team whose contributions made this award possible….I am a Christian and I am guided by Christian principles in my leadership roles.”
Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe has built the largest fibre network in the country providing broadband voice and data in all the major cities and towns. It is an IAP as well as an ISP in Zimbabwe and as such provides services for residential, SMEs, large enterprise customers as well as other providers in Zimbabwe.
Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe named Mashonaland’s ICT Company of The Year
Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe and its sister company ZOL were both recognised at last week’s Mashonaland Annual Business Awards hosted by The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC).
These awards are the most prominent and prestigious business awards in Zimbabwe and recognise home-grown non-manufacturing companies which are dynamic, innovative and successful.
This year’s ceremony took place on 3 June in Harare and was attended by The Minister of Industry and Commerce Hon. Mike Bimha as well as business men and women from across the private and public sectors.
Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe was named as the ICT Company of the year with the second runner-up award going to sister company ZOL, a retail ISP. Southern Region Technical Company (SRTC), a customer of Liquid Telecom’s, was named as first runner-up in this category.
Mr Wellington Makamure, Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe Managing Director, said “Of course we are both honoured and delighted to receive this award from the ZNCC. I would like to congratulate our team across Zimbabwe who work so hard to provide our customers with a superfast and highly reliable broadband service.”
