A new chapter begins.
I am honoured to have been appointed Chief Executive Officer of ZB Bank@zb_foryou
I look forward to the responsibility ahead and to working with the ZB Bank team as we build the next chapter together.
Grateful. Humbled. Ready for the journey ahead 🙏🏾💚🚀
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Dr Kudakwashe Mutenda, a Zimbabwean businessman, global corporate executive, and author educated in Japan who has travelled to 100 countries and worked in seven, says unless a country produces something it will not prosper.
Unless Zimbabwe starts producing something of value and stop importing almost everything, "we are going nowhere".
In general country does not need to produce everything it consumes to prosper, but it must produce something of value —whether goods or specialised services — to trade with others and grow economically.
Importing things and becoming a wholesale for other countries is the fastest route to poverty and dependence.
In a recent inspirational presentation at CDC Assembly about his life journey and global business sucess stories, Mutemba, known as the founder and managing director of Mwana Group, a local manufacturing and automotive solutions enterprise, says innovation, production and development are mutually reinforcing.
Countries must be innovative, produce and trade in order to develop.
He says due to deindustrialisation and lack of production; relying on imports, Zimbabwe is going backwards.
In 2019, Mutenda transitioned from a highly lucrative international corporate career to establish Mwana Group in Zimbabwe.
The company manufactures commercial vehicle components;
a modern single car has about 30 000 parts — most notably automotive filters under the Mwana Filters brand — and provides maintenance services.
Before returning to Zimbabwe, he worked for Daimler AG in Germany and Mitsubishi in Japan during his high-profile career with global automotive giants.
He spent years managing operations across seven countries, including serving as the regional sales manager for Daimler Middle East & Levant in Dubai and heading Mercedes-Benz commercial customer services across 42 African nations from Nairobi.
Coming from a humble background in Mufakose, Harare, he won scholarships to attend Prince Edward School and later study engineering in Japan.
He became fluent in Japanese and completed his undergraduate, master's, and doctorate degrees entirely in the Japanese language. He earned two master's degrees from Sophia University, famously completing a two-year programme in just 13 months.
In March 2026, he published his 488-page autobiography titled "My Life: Overcoming – Kukunda". The memoir serves as an inspirational blueprint for African entrepreneurship, detailing his journey from walking barefoot to primary school to succeeding in global boardrooms and overcoming early learning difficulties.
Chuck Norris didn't join the Marine Corps...the Marine Corps applied to him.
Heaven’s streets have always been guarded by Marines. Today, Chuck Norris reported for duty.
We mourn the passing of Chuck Norris, a @usairforce veteran, who also became an honorary Marine in 2007 when awarded the title by then Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway.
Chuck Norris is one of just over 100 individuals to be awarded the title of Honorary Marine in the entire 250-year history of the Corps.
Some missions may require a battalion, but this one just requires an Honorary Marine.
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