Roselyn Musarurwa Charehwa: Out-Swimming the Sharks
By Pamina Mullins
Although Zimbabwean-born Roselyn Charehwa has always had a knack for identifying opportunities, she didn’t classify this skill as particularly entrepreneurial until she found herself backed into a corner, with no job and no one to turn to. So she did the only thing she could do and started a business. The country’s inflation rate at the time was the highest in history, and what she thought would be easy turned out to be survival of the fittest. “I dove in without giving it much thought—and found myself swimming with the sharks,” she remembers with a rueful smile!
Roselyn began her career as a retailer, caterer, and personal assistant, never dreaming she would one day be Managing Director of her own cleaning, landscaping and waste disposal company. It hasn’t been easy. She’s had to deal with many people, men and women alike, who believed a man should be at the helm of an organization. But facing obstacles like these has simply fine-tuned her leadership abilities, enabling her to hold her own with fellow leaders in her field…..
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