Serial entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa has graced Forbes lists several times before. This year alone the Zimbabweans that were featured on a Forbes list were, the ‘British’ Masiyiwa, Kevin the Wedding Planner and Shacky Timburwa.

As if that wasn’t even, another talented Zimbabwean has just made a Forbes list. Kenneth Raydon Sharpe won the Forbes Best of Africa, Innovative CEO of the year 2021.

Ken Sharpe is a Zimbabwean businessman who is the Executive Chairman of West Properties Company. He also owns a number of businesses that include; Augur Investments and West Food Distribution.

The innovative CEO, is the first Zimbabwean to have won this title. With excitement he shared his vision in a tweet saying:

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The 29 year old Tendai Kevin Zhou, is an all round events planner. He operates under the names VIP Hosting events or just Kevin the Wedding Planner.

He provides planning services for a wide range of events from exhibitions, weddings, conferences product launches etc. No doubt the business acumen he displays in these businesses has played a massive role in landing him the esteemed position.

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To understand the impact Kevin has made, check out what people are saying below:

Someone flew out Kevin the wedding planner to Johannesburg so that he would do their Christmas tree guysLeyvels

— Angels&Happiness (@Angels1505) December 23, 2020

Gents, as we approach 14 Feb. Take her phone and block Kevin the wedding planner on all socials.

— LLOON (@LLOON_kids) February 3, 2021

Nobody gives the youth pressure and feels like Kevin the Wedding Planner. Akangoposta chete paweekend the whole week yangova mhere mhere pa maTL

— VaMagumbo (@Ndini_Rumbi) December 7, 2020

Kevin was one of two Zimbabweans on this year’s Forbes list. The list was also graced by Zimbabwe’s Shacky Timburwa.

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This year, a Zimbabwean graced the cover of the Forbes Africa Magazine for his business prowess. Forbes has various categories ranging from the Richest People List, Forbes 30 under 30 among others. The Zimbabwean in question, Shakemore Wellington Timburwa, was a part of this year’s 30 under 30 list.

This list contains those Forbes has concluded to be the brightest young entrepreneurs. So in essence, 30 entrepreneurs were handpicked out of the whole African Continent as the brightest of all the African entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

The featured Zimbabwean, Shakemore Wellington Timburwa, is the CEO of Parvaim Holdings. The company specialises in the mining industry. He was previously incorporated into the Global Chamber of Business Leaders (GCBL) Young Business Leaders Programme. GCBL is a coalition of C suite executives, entrepreneurs, investors and the like. With this track record, no wonder Timburwa is now a part of this years Forbes 30 under 30 list.

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Also on the list are the following:

• Mihlali Ndamase – South Africa
• Antonio Depina – Cape Verde
• Reinhard Mahalie – Namibia
• Cleo Johnson – South Africa

Timburwa is however, not the first Zimbabwean to be featured in a Forbes publication. Strive Masiyiwa was also a part of a Forbes list this year. However, as a nation we’ve also managed to make it into a Forbes list albeit for the wrong reason.

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Masiyiwa started of his year on a high note when he was featured in the 2021 Forbes Billionaires List. If you religiously follow this list you might know that this wasn’t the first time he made it to the list. However, this year’s list caused havoc as they identified the billionaire as British. We covered that sensitive issue here. 

Recently, Strive flew the flag high once again. Not the Zimbabwean flag but rather the British flag. UK’s Rich List 2021 was published and for the first time since 1989 the list features a black person. Yes, you guessed it, that black person is Strive Masiyiwa. Once again, he was identified as British and Zimbabweans were hurt. We shared that issue in this article.

Strive Masiyiwa has corrected that error. In a reply to one of his Facebook followers who congratulated him for being the first British black billionaire on the Rich List he stated:

“Thank you, Joseph. Just one correction; I’m not British, I’m Zimbabwean. The article simply said the first black billionaire to live in Britain. There are many billionaires on the list who are residents of the UK, but not British citizens. To suggest that I’m British simply because on the list of a UK newspaper is the same as I’m an American since I have long appeared on the list of Forbes Magazine”

So, don’t you fret Zimbabweans, the billionaire is still yours.

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The United Nations offered protective measures aimed at safeguarding vulnerable populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. On Tuesday, 115 nations are said to have voted for the implementation of these provision. These nations include South Africa and Botswana.

However, it didn’t come as much of a surprise when countries notorious for such crimes voted against this United Nations measure. These countries include North Korea, Russia, China, Burundi, and Eritrea. These countries refused to vote for the resolution as they would then be answerable to the UN for any failure to protect their populous from the war induced atrocities, genocides and infringements on human rights. The aforementioned countries have been involved in atrocities against their own people and evidently would not like to be held responsible for that.

Zimbabwe has also refuted the UN resolution and apparently political analysts are not staggered by this move. The UN has placed Zimbabwe in 4th position on their list of notorious countries.

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As mentioned before, this isn’t the first time Zimbabwe has been included in a list with some of the countries in the above list. View the Forbes list here.

However, perhaps we can still look on the bright side. The President stated that the country is on its way to becoming the bread basket of Africa once again. View the reasons for that notion in this article.

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Perhaps you’re now wondering what country Strive Masiyiwa was listed under. Forbes 2021 list blatantly stated that Strive Masiyiwa, the British, was on the 2035th rank. Yes, the British.

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What could have prompted Forbes to feature him in that way? One of the reasons could be that the Zimbabwean billionaire is now based in London. While in London, Strive and his wife were even recognised by ex-Prime Minister, Theresa May, to receive the Points of Light award for their exceptional voluntary service providing education to underprivileged children in Zimbabwe. So long story short, the Masiyiwas are noteworthy citizens of the United Kingdom.

Since Forbes listed Strive Masiyiwa under United Kingdom, we can technically say that Zimbabwe had no one representing it in the Billionaires list in 2021. Even though the billions that landed Masiyiwa in the list were initially facilitated by his ventures here in Zimbabwe.

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Strive Masiyiwa’s net worth currently sits at a staggering  US$1.5 billion. However, it wasn’t enough to place him in even the top 10 list for either the international list or the African richest people list . He scooped the 16th position in Africa’s Billionaires List 2021.

First in the Worlds richest list is Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos who’s net worth is US$177 billion. He has managed to maintain this position for a consecutive period of 4 years. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, followed him at a net worth of US$151 billion. He shot up to this position after being 31st just last year. Musk also ousted Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates from his 2nd position last year. Bill Gates now sits at position number 4 on this list.

Representing Africa at position number 191 is Nigeria’s founder of Dangote Cement, Aliko Dangote. This position is a stoop from last year’s position 131, however, he has managed to maintain his standing as Africa’s richest man.Dangote’s net worth is stated to be US$11.5 billion.

Our neighbouring South Africa’s Nicky Oppenhemeir & family sat at position 308 with a net worth of US$8 billion.

Below is the section of the list of the Forbes Worlds richest people where Strive Masiyiwa appears:

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