Taruvinga crowned Miss Zimbabwe Canada

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By Kuthula Matshazi

STUNNING Zimbabwean beauty, Kanyadzo Taruvinga, was crowned Miss Zimbabwe Canada 2006 at the close of the ZimExpo Business Exhibition in Toronto last Saturday.

She automatically qualified to compete in the main Miss Zimbabwe pageant set to be held in Harare later this year..

Taruvinga's first princess was Elizabeth O'Brien, a Psychology and Marketing student at Kwantlen University College in Vancouver.

Chenai Mutambara, a business administration student at York University was voted second princess.

Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation TV presenter Barney Mupariwa, now based in the United States, was the master of ceremony while England based former Radio Two DJ Ezra "Tshisa" Sibanda was on the panel of judges.

The Miss Zimbabwe Canada pageant was preceded by a business exposition at a Toronto Hotel to create a platform from which Zimbabwean companies and businesses can showcase themselves, their products and services to Zimbabweans in the Canada

The exposition also provided a networking platform where professionals and entrepreneurs from around Canada could interact, network and exchange ideas.

The exposition saw several Zimbabweans across Canada engaged in different businesses coming to showcase their wares and services.

The organiser of the event, Anesu Manjengwa, said that the initiative envisages building a viable Zimbabwean business sector that would be able to represent the interests of Zimbabweans in Canada.

He said their initiative aimed to provide assistance to the needy in Zimbabwe in future when firmly established.

A business consortium also held a meeting with the Zimbabwean ambassador to Canada, Florence Zano Chideya and highlighted their commitment to working towards investing in Zimbabwe.

The meeting promised to set up structures that would deal with issues that potential Zimbabwean investors feel could stifle the desire to commit their resources. One such complaint was the high duty fees charged on both capital and charity goods when they enter Zimbabwe.

Ambassador Chideya advised the potential Zimbabwean business people that tax on charitable goods could be exempted if proper documentation and procedure was adhered to prior to shipping the goods.

She made a pledge to take up the concerns of potential business people with the government. The potential business investors were tasked to come up with specific issues that Ambassador Chideya could take up with government.
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