Our #WCW is Sympathy Sibanda-Mazurus,a 33-year-old multi-award-winning entrepreneur who has broken the glass ceiling in the world of business. She founded Amandla Brands and co-owning Esteem Communications at a young age.
Amandla Brands is a local digital marketing, public relations and brand development company that specialises in organic foods like peanut butter, a variation of nuts and raisins, brown rice and brown rice flour as well as snacks. The company has maintained a steady growth since inception.
Being at the helm of Amandla Brands, a company that has become a good reference point for many marketing clients, Sympathy has managed to maintain stability in an unfriendly economic environment and her company is still growing bigger.
Symapthy added that she is also engaging in trainings to mentor women who would like to get in business but have no idea what is needed. Amandla Brands has become a creative hub for women to share experiences and push each other to run profitable businesses.
The young entrepreneur also co-owns a marketing and branding company, Esteem Communications, with her husband, which was born out of a combination of the love for writing and marketing.
Sibanda-Mazuruse is the winner of the 2018 CBZ Youth Entrepreneurship Programme (YEP) award, 2019 1st Runner-Up award under the manufacturing sector at the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce Women in Enterprise award and 2020 awards.
