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Workers On Wednesday with Folake Saije Topic : Retrenchment Packages Guests : Itai Bonda & Advocate Caleb Mucheche

Straight from Zimbabwe and now tearing up the trackside in the UK. We’re thrilled to welcome the incredible Stephanie Travers, a 25 year old Zimbabwean on #MaAmbassador Edu. She’s here to give us the inside track on her journey, her passion for motorsports, and how she’s helping the #Mercedes team push the boundaries of innovation with PETRONAS lubricants. Stephanie Travers is a Zimbabwean-born chemical engineer who became the first black woman to stand on a Formula 1 podium in 2020, representing the Mercedes-AMG Petronas team after their Styrian Grand Prix win. Selected from over 7,000 applicants, Travers currently serves as Deputy Team Principal for Lewis Hamilton’s X44 Vida Carbon Racing team in Extreme E. She also works with Mission 44, Hamilton’s foundation focused on increasing diversity in motorsport and education.

New Show Alert In this fourth episode FoLake Saije will have a chat with the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pete Vowles, to amplify the voices of some UK-based Zimbabweans as they share life lessons and career tips. In our next episode, Folake and Ambassador Pete spoke to Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure, a lawyer and financial services expert who founded her own publishing house four years ago, and has since released more than 30 books by Zimbabwean and Zimbabwean-British authors. Samantha was inspired to start her publishing house Carnelian Heart when she tried without success to get her own first book of poetry published. Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure is a Zimbabwean publisher, writer, and translator based in Wales. She founded Carnelian Heart Publishing in 2020. She has since published over 30 books by African writers. Folake and Pete read the anthology Turquoise Dreams and Vice Nganga’s Once Upon a Time to prep for this interview; one of the most memorable stories she tells is about having to transcribe one Zimbabwean writer’s whole book from Whatsapp messages.

In our third episode of MaAmbassador Edu, FoLake Saije and British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Pete Vowels speak to award-winning Zimbabwean-born and British-raised food entrepreneur and self-published author Caroline Gundu, better known as Caz, about her debut cookbook, which seeks to pay homage to Zimbabwe’s most popular dishes but is made with a twist. She will also share what the future holds for her brand. Caroline "Caz" Gundu is a Zimbabwe-born inventor and entrepreneur based in the UK. She is best known for creating the CWC Sadza Cooker, which automates the cooking process for traditional Zimbabwean dishes like sadza. Gundu also runs Cooking with Caz, a platform that promotes Zimbabwean cuisine, and is the author of “Zimbabwean Food Reimagined”. She’s showcased the cooker on UK tv, and she brought it to our podcast recording at the Capitalk studio Harare.

New Show Alert In a new radio series, FoLake Saije will have a chat with the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pete Vowles, to amplify the voices of some UK-based Zimbabweans as they share life lessons and career tips. In our second episode, Folake and Ambassador Pete spoke to Tendai Murairwa, a brilliant designer and leading creative of Teestyletribe, to understand what inspired her change of career at the age of 40. She will also share what the future holds for her brand. Tendai Murairwa is a Zimbabwean-born fashion designer from Doncaster who left her job as an NHS Sewing Room Assistant during COVID to launching her fashion brand, Teestyletribe. Inspired by her African heritage, Murairwa's collections feature wrap skirts, kimonos, and headwraps: she uses it to showcase her passion for sustainability and upcycled fashion. She also works as a freelance costume design trainee, has had a placement on the TV show Emmerdale, and has just started a partnership with Marks and Spence

New Show Alert! In a new radio series, FoLake Saije will have a chat with the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pete Vowles, to amplify the voices of some UK-based Zimbabweans as they share life lessons and career tips. Meanwhile, on this first episode, Folake and UK in Zimbabwe Ambassador Pete Vowels will be chatting with Dr. Phylis Makurunje, a high-flying material engineer at Wales's Nuclear Futures Institute, which is based at the University of Bangor. Phylis Makurunje is a Zimbabwean aerospace scientist leading cutting-edge research on nuclear-powered propulsion systems for space exploration at Bangor University’s Nuclear Futures Institute in Wales. Her work includes research into reducing travel time to Mars. A graduate of NUST University in the second city of Bulawayo, Makurunje has been featured in Zimbabwe’s state-controlled Herald newspaper: she told us during the podcast how much her parents had influenced her.

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