TAFADZWA Muzondo’s workplace theatre initiative recently paid off for CBZ Holdings after they won a Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) Business Award for having the Best Corporate Social Responsibility — HIV and AIDS.
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The play Hanya Nani? 1 was performed for all CBZ staffers in Harare, Gweru, Kwekwe, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls after they implemented the workplace theatre programme in 2012.
Muzondo told NewsDay he was proud to be associated with CBZ.
“We are proud to be associated with this winning team and we say to the CBZ board, management and staff; ‘Congratulations, Makorokoto, Amhlope!’” Muzondo said. “The programme saw us doing up to 40 performances of Hanya Nani? 1 for the CBZ family, reaching out to everyone from the board and senior management to middle management and the entire staff last year.
“The play was well received and people would laugh at the humorous, but when it became serious moments they would become pensive and some would even cry especially in the last scene of the play.”
Written, directed and produced by Tafadzwa Muzondo, co-produced by Jingo James Mukwindidza and Isheunesu Moyo, Hanya Nani? 1 features the award-winning trio of Everson Ndlovu (who won the Best Upcoming Actor Award at the April International Theatre Festival 2005 in Zambia and the Best Actor at the Musho International Theatre Festival 2013 in South Africa), James Mukwindidza (winner of the Best Comedy Performance Award at the Reps/Afdis 2012 Awards) and Tafadzwa Muzondo (winner of the Outstanding Theatre Actor Award for Nama 2009).
Muzondo said the award showed they were making an impact through the theatrical intervention on HIV and AIDS at the workplace. He said it reaffirmed how serious the financial institution valued theatre.
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“We are particularly humbled and impressed by the fact that we were acknowledged by the CBZ group Chief Executive Officer Dr. JP Mangudya in his memorandum to management and staff announcing the award,” Muzondo said.
“Our relationship with CBZ started way back in 2008 when we auditioned alongside other theatre groups and landed the contract to provide theatrical productions in their HIV and AIDS programme at the workplace and since then, we are happy that they have remained confident with our delivery.”
