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33: 287:, asked Masiyiwa to help mobilise resources for Africa's response to the Ebola outbreak. This was the first time The AU had asked a business leader to undertake such a role. Masiyiwa, with the help of other leaders, set up the first ever Pan-African fund-raising campaign known as #AfricaAgainstEbola Solidarity Fund. 165:, a city in north central Zambia known for its copper mines. It was here that he attended primary school, before completing his secondary education in Scotland. Masiyiwa's mother was an entrepreneur. By the time Masiyiwa was 12 years old, his parents could afford to provide him with a European education. 423:
He has used his own family fortune to build one of the largest support programs for educating orphans in Africa. At any given time his family foundations have supported and educated more than 40,000 children. Masiyiwa and his wife are also a signatories of the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett initiative
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Masiyiwa listed Econet Wireless Zimbabwe in July 1998 on the local stock exchange as a gesture of thanks to reward the thousands of ordinary people who supported him during his long legal battles against the Zimbabwean government. Today, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has gone on to become a major business
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Masiyiwa has also been involved in supporting a diverse range of health issues including campaigns against HIV/AIDS, Cervical Cancer, malnutrition, EBOLA, and more recently, COVID-19. He is an avid environmentalist and together with Sir Richard Branson and others founded the environmental group, the
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named Masiyiwa in the 10 Most Powerful Men in Africa list for 2015, and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) awarded Masiyiwa the Freedom Award. The award is given annually to an individual who makes an extraordinary contribution towards supporting refugees and championing the causes of liberty,
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In January 2020 he paid for Zimbabwe's doctors to return to work after they struck to get paid. Masiyiwa agreed to pay each doctor a subsistence allowance of about $ 300 (£230) and provide them with transport to work, through a fund he set up. Most of the doctors on strike were earning less than $
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Masiyiwa appealed to the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, on the basis that the refusal constituted a violation of "freedom of expression". The Zimbabwean court, ruled in his favour after a five-year legal battle, which took him to the brink of bankruptcy. The ruling, which led to the removal of
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Some of the key businesses that he established with partners included Econet Wireless International, Econet Global, Mascom Wireless Botswana, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), Econet Satellite Services, Lesotho Telecom, Econet Wireless Burundi, Rwanda Telecom, Econet Wireless South
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Masiyiwa has provided scholarships to more than 250,000 young Africans over the past 20 years through his family foundation. He has supported more than 40,000 orphans with educational initiatives and sponsored students at universities in America, the United Kingdom, and China.
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Entrepreneur of the Year. In April 2023, Masiyiwa was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that was founded in 1780 `'honoring excellence, innovation, and leadership and recognizing a broad array of stellar accomplishments`'.
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The fund raised millions of US dollars from the public using SMS donations, with contributions coming from many African countries. The donations enabled The AU to deploy the largest known contingency of African healthcare workers to combat the spread of the deadly pandemic.
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to serve as a Special Envoy to the African Union for COVID response where he served until early 2022. Later in 2022 Mr Masiyiwa led an AU task force working on Food Security in Africa and addressed this crisis at the US Africa Summit in Washington DC in December 2022.
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farmers. In 2019 he stepped down from AGRA and now serves as Chairman Emeritus. In 2013, he was appointed co-chair of Grow Africa, the investment forum for Africa's agriculture, which has helped mobilise over US$ 15 billion in investments for African agriculture.
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Africa, Solarway, and Transaction Processing Systems (TPS). The company he created is known to have operations and investments across Africa plus the United Kingdom, Europe, US, Latin America, and New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, and China.
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Upon the cholera outbreak which happened in Zimbabwe in 2019, Strive Masiyiwa together with his wife donated a total of US$ 10m to fight against the disease. Moreover, he pledged US$ 60m to be used to build resilience against the disease.
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the state monopoly in telecommunications, is regarded as one of the key milestones in opening the African telecommunications sector to private capital. The company's first cellphone subscriber was connected to the new network in 1998.
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In December 2020 Masiyiwa was named by Bloomberg as one of the 50 world's most influential people. He was also included in the list as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by the New African Magazine, and in
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in 1984 after a 17-year absence. After working briefly as a telecoms engineer for the state-owned telephone company, he quit his job and set up his own company from saving amount of US$ 75 monthly from his salary
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Masiyiwa also has had interests in the United States of America (USA). He has partnered with one of America's leading telecoms entrepreneurs, John Stanton, in a venture called
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In March 2000, fleeing persecution from the local authorities, Masiyiwa left Zimbabwe, never to return to the country, and moved first to South Africa, where he founded The
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Together with his wife, they pledged $ 100m to establish a fund to invest in rural entrepreneurs in his home country. The two also started a non-profit organisation,
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Other activities of Econet include digital enterprise networks, cybersecurity and cloud services, data centers, fintech, digital platforms, and renewable energy.
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in 2021 on the list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders for his work with the African Union leading COVID response and vaccine acquisition in Africa.
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named Masiyiwa one of the 50 most influential business leaders in the world, and he was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by
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After more than ten years in South Africa, Masiyiwa moved to London. He still retains significant business interests in Africa.
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In 2019, he was awarded the Norman E. Borlaug World Food Prize Medallion and named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by
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Strive Masiyiwa was born in Zimbabwe, on 29 January 1961. When he was seven, his family left the country after Prime Minister
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that dominates the Zimbabwe economy. It is currently the second-largest company in Zimbabwe by market capitalisation.
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businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of international technology groups
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magazine. In 2020, he was named a JA Worldwide Global Business Hall of Fame Laureate.
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Masiyiwa's international appointments and board memberships over the years include:
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Group, a new and completely separate organisation to the listed Zimbabwean entity.
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In May 2020, he was appointed by South African President and African Union Chair
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refused to give him a license to operate his business, known as Econet Wireless.
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One of Masiyiwa's most successful ventures is the London-based privately held
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of London named him one of the 25 Leaders of Africa's Renaissance Award.
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Masiyiwa owns over 50% of publicly traded Econet Wireless Zimbabwe.
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Masiyiwa is the only African member of the United States
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in 1983. He worked briefly in the computer industry in
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Honorary Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences
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Econet Global
National Geographic Society
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ashinaga (organization)
Netflix
billionaire
Econet Global
Ian Smith
Kitwe
Edinburgh
electrical engineering
University of Wales
Cambridge
Unilever
Netflix
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
National Geographic Society
Bank of America
The Rockefeller Foundation
Council on Foreign Relations
Asia Society
Africa Progress Panel
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Micronutrient Initiative
African Union
Morehouse College
Holocaust Memorial Museum
Fortune Magazine

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