Afrigate Commercial Brokers' Managing Director, Rungano Nyaude, addressed the Annual Chairpersons Lounge 2026 in Singapore this week, joining Chairpersons, board directors and C-suite leaders for two days of high-level dialogue on leadership and governance. The event, hosted by the Quality Corporate Governance Centre under the Zimbabwe Leadership Forum, ran under the theme Power Shift: Reinventing Leadership in an Uncertain World.

Since leaving Zimbabwe for Qatar in 2010, I've been building the bridge home. The invisible work, the networks, the platform — all foundations for return. The question is no longer whether I will return. The question is whether Zimbabwe is ready when I do.

For ten days in March, I was stuck in Harare as airspace closures shut down the Africa-GCC corridor. What the crisis taught me about resilience, family, and the fragility of the bridge we build.