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Strive Masiyiwa

Date of Birth: 29 January 1961


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Newsdays and the old days

Having dismissed Strive Masiyiwa (Chairman of Econet Zimbabwe’s largest mobile telephone operator) with Sten Rylander (former Swedish Ambassador) and Judith Garfield Todd (daughter of the late Premier Reginald Garfield Todd) who were all at the Johannesburg launch of Newsday Manheru sounded a warning to Econet on its possible plans for a toll-free news service...


Jumping ship

Correction Contrary to our report in AC Vol 49 No 1 that Strive Masiyiwa and Trevor Ncube were supporting the United Front from South Africa we have now been informed that they have had no involvement with the organisation whatsoever...


Political hurdles ahead

South Africa-based Zimbabweans such as publisher Trevor Ncube and telecoms magnate Strive Masiyiwa are joining forces to give support from outside...


Losing Zengeza

But the government is working hard to shut down donations from entrepreneurs such as the cellphone millionaire Strive Masiyiwa now based in South Africa; his Zimbabwe operations are embroiled in court actions...


Gideon's bible

Other potential targets are Econet Wireless majority owned by Strive Masiyiwa publisher of the (now closed) opposition-supporting Daily News and Kingdom Financial Holdings run by Masiyiwa's associate Nigel Chanakira...


Banking breakdowns

Member of Parliament for Chinhoyi a member of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's nomenklatura and an ally of presidential contender Emmerson Mnangagwa Chiyangwa had paraded himself as a black-empowerment activist as well as an anti-corruption campaigner in pursuit of business people and opposition supporters such as Strive Masiyiwa and Nigel Chanikira...


Media attrition

ANZ Chairperson Strive Masiyiwa is said to have assured employees that he is prepared to pay their salaries for up to two years after which the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front government may have thrown in the towel...


Succession for sale

Johannesburg-based businessman Strive Masiyiwa owns a majority of shares in its publisher Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ)...


Moi versus the economy

Econet's Strive Masiyiwa insists that any new negotiations must be in the boardroom not in the corridor - meaning in code that Mount Kenya refuses to contribute to KANU's election campaign...


Bretton Woods at Dunsinane

This bidder the Mount Kenya Consortium combines telecoms technocrats South Africa's Eskom Enterprises Zimbabwe's Econet Wireless (headed by Strive Masiyiwa) and the Netherlands' KPN Telecom NV with financial muscle from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the economic and political attenae of the Consortium Chairman Chris Kirubi who heads the Industrial Credit and Development Corporation...


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