Beverly Bizeki
25-year-old Shantel Yeukai Chiwara of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) recently shrugged off competition from the male contestants to land Masvingo West’s ward 2 council seat in the August 23 harmonized polls.
Chiwara was declared winner after she got 2 287 votes, with Hwata Benson of Zanu PF getting 1 304, Anderson Paradza of MDC T with 21 votes and Charity Shoko (DUZ) getting a paltry of 17 votes.
Chiwara said she was grateful to everyone who had supported her and promised to work with people in her ward towards development.
“I would like to thank everyone who voted for me. It was not an easy journey but we sailed through.
“I would like urge people from ward 2 people to continue working together with me to fulfil the dictates of the mandate they gave me for the development of our ward,” said Chiwara.
Chiwara is an investment banker by profession and a former Victoria High learner. She is currently studying towards a Strategic Management Masters’ degree at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) and is a holder of a Bachelors’ Degree in Banking at National University of Science and Technology (NUST).
Her father James Chiwara is the former deputy mayor of Masvingo, who deputized former mayor Hubert Fidze.
She won the chance to represent CCC after disqualification of Roki Kamuzonda and Frank Chirairo among others, with Kamuzonda filing as independent but later withdrew and Chirairo as another CCC candidate who also withdrew after negotiations with other party members.
