By Cloud Fusire
THE Financial Gazette’s inaugural Business Executives Networking Golf tournament, which was held in Harare, was a roaring success.
Meant to raise funds for women in prisons, as well as the development of junior golf in the country, the tournament was over-subscribed, amid strong support from the corporate sector.
This saw golfers from different clubs and companies, including EcoCash, Delta Beverages and Nissan Clover — among many others — taking part in the tournament.
EcoCash, who were being represented by Funnywell Muodza and Allan Chirairo, reigned supreme in the tourney and were crowned the 2022 champions.
The event also saw many products and services being auctioned, with proceeds being channelled towards the identified worthy causes.
Speaking in an interview with the Daily News on the sidelines of the tournament, Muodza applauded the organisers of the event.
“We are very happy and proud to have represented our brand EcoCash Holdings and managing to win the inaugural Financial Gazette Business Executives’ Networking Golf tournament.
“It was a well-organised and worthy event.
“We were partnered as teams and we played very well. We enjoyed everything from playing golf and networking with other businesses.
“That means a lot to us and I think this is a great initiative that should be sustained going forward,” Muodza said.
The managing director of the Financial Gazette, also popularly known as FinGaz or the Pink Paper — Lewis Chikurunhe — was overwhelmed by the response of the corporate world towards the social responsibility initiative.
“It was a runaway success, with our valued business partners coming on board in a most laudable way.
“As you know, FinGaz is the number one business publication in the country, and so it is important that this critical voice of industry and commerce plays its full role in society, including contributing to worthy causes.
“In this regard, we cannot thank all our stakeholders who made this day the roaring success it was enough,” Chikurunhe said.
Jester Media Services group general manager for events, Christina Nyirenda, said the plan was to make the tournament an annual event.
“We are very impressed with the level of commitment for this event from our valued business partners, which resulted in the capacity turnout.
“Unfortunately, we even had to turn away some of the people who wanted to contribute to the event.
“Our promise is that we will try to make this an annual and even bigger event to accommodate many more corporates,” Nyirenda said.
