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PAN-AFRICAN Federation of Accountants (PAFA) chief executive, Mr Vickson Ncube, says the time has come for chartered secretaries and administrators to redefine their operations and reposition themselves in a way that enables them to come up with formidable solutions when challenges arise.

What people used to just imagine has become a reality today, making it necessary to unlearn old ways of doing things, he said.

“We have ways of doing things with technology that we never thought about,” he told the recent Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators at the Zimbabwe annual conference in Victoria Falls.

“Chartered Secretaries must redefine themselves, reskill themselves and reposition themselves in such a way that, if challenges come, you are not confined to the destiny of irrelevance.”

To Mr Ncube, the time has come for business administrators to move away from thinking about profitability to thinking about viability.

“We are all stakeholders. Let no one man tell a market he can buy us off,” he said, adding: “If you are going to be a chartered secretary who rises to the occasion, your professionalism must be covered by patriotism.”

Mr Ncube said the African Union, having seen the challenges that face Africa, has come up with an agenda that would see Africa reaching set development levels by 2063.

“If you want to become a chartered secretary that rises to the challenge, press ahead with agenda 2063,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hippo Valley Estates acting chief executive officer, Aiden Mhere, was declared the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up was Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) corporate services director, Avilla Dororosa Goba.