The Tanganda Training Centre, soon to be renamed, “The John Moxon Conference Centre”, is located at New Year’s Gift Estate in Chipinge. In 1995, an important decision was made to convert the place, which previously was a house used by some of the company’s senior management, into a training facility. This was in order to realise Tanganda Tea Company’s firm belief that people are key to its success. It now consists of a conference room, five neat grass-thatched rondavels, and five rooms in the “main house” and can accommodate twenty-two people at any given time.
It provides accommodation, conference facilities, and food to Tanganda employees attending in-house courses and those on company business from the Estates, Mutare, Bulawayo, and Harare. The lush green vegetation and well-manicured lawn provide a tranquil atmosphere and ideal setting for training workshops.
A staff complement of nine, consisting of the Training and Development Manager, Supervisor, Housekeeper, four cooks, and four gardeners is responsible for providing exceptional service to guests and maintaining the facility.
Addington is a legal practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in legal services in Zimbabwe. Over the past thirty years his area of specialization has been corporate and commercial law, including mining law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. Addington continues to be involved in a number of significant FDI transactions and disposals by foreign companies of equity on Zimbabwe Stock Exchange listed entities, financial institutions and major private transactions and Greenfield mining projects. Addington is a member of the International Bar Association and an advisor to the Judicial Service Commission and The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. He is a large benefactor to the Emerald Hill Children’s Home for the Deaf and Orphans as its Ambassador. Addington is a past Trustee of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and remains a Top Ranked Commercial Lawyer in Zimbabwe by Chambers and Partners. Addington has sat on the boards of other publicly listed companies and is the current Chairman of Innscor Africa Limited and Simbisa Brands Limited. He is a member of the Innscor Group Remuneration and Nominations Committees.