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Youth Interactive Writer
Incorporate Zimbabwe turned two years old and has since worked with over 400 Zimbabwean youth locally and internationally. These include Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa, Kirsty Coventry, Holy Ten, the late Zororo Makamba, Sha Sha and award winning Tamary Kudita among others.
Their aim to share Zimbabwean success stories and provide inspiration to the youth.
In honour of their second anniversary,they decided to honour some of the local and international Zimbabwean youths.
According to the founder members, they received over 35,000 votes.George-Piet Taona Sawezy who is a professional Rugby player currently playing in Spain.
Currently based in Spain. I moved here in 2017 with a club in the north Crat A Coruña. I have had short stints in other countries namely Lithuania and back home in Zim during this time. I am in the books of Car Sevilla after signing with them in 2019. This is my second season with them.
“I attended several primary schools, seven to be exact across the whole Southern Africa region. This was due to my mother who worked in the tourism industry. The trade continued in senior school. I then completed my matric in Durban South Africa.”
“It was in my last high school (2010)game I got scouted for the sharks juniors and academy side. It was not all roses at the big franchise.
With little to no game time I jumped ship when I got offered a contract to study and play varsity rugby at UCT(2013). When Pieter de Velliers the former sables and springbok coach lured me across town to UWC(2014-2017). I did not hesitate. I then spent four years there. During my years at UWC I got my first sables cap in (2016)”
For all those aspiring athletes please note that the mind is the most powerful weapon we poses. Exercise it as often as you do the body. A top conditioned mind is an unstoppable phenomenon.
Honours
Zimbabwe national 7s champions (Old Georgians)(2014)
Varsity Shield (2014-17) (runner up 2016, winner 2017)
Uwc sports honors award (2016-17)
Debut for sables in Namibia (2016)
Zimbabwe Goshawks 7s (kwese Victoria Falls)(2018)
Dubai Fly Emirates 7s invitational (Old Georgians)(2018)
Supersport Rugby challenge (Zim academy)(2019)
Super 6 runner up(Old Georgians) (Zimbabwe) (2019)
Victoria Cup winners(Africa cup) (Zimbabwe sables) (2019)
Baltic cup runner up(Lithuania) (2020)
Honourable Minister Kirsty Leigh Coventry who is a 5-time Olympic champion who has dedicated her life to sport, Africa, women, and children.
She is a member of the International Olympic Committee Executive Board, Chairperson of the Athletes Commission, Vice-President of the International Surfing Federation, a member of FINA’s athlete committee and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency. She was recently appointed as the Chairperson of the Senegal 2022 Youth Olympic Games Coordination Commission.
Despite coming from a landlocked country in Africa Kirsty has gone onto become one of the greatest swimmers the world has ever seen. She dedicated over 20 years to become the top female swimmer in the history of the Olympic Games. She has been to 5 Olympic Games, won 7 individual Olympic medals (2 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze), broken multiple world records and had one of the best World Championship careers of all time.
In 2000 at 16 years old, Kirsty qualified for her first Olympics in Sydney. It was an overwhelming experience for the young Kirsty, but one which made her realise that her dream of winning Olympic gold was achievable.
On September 16th, 2016 on her 33rd birthday, Kirsty tearfully announced she was retiring from competitive swimming.
Since then,
Kirsty has focused her energy into her work(IOC) Executive Board member and being a public servant. Since the beginning of September 2018, Kirsty was appointed to be Zimbabwe’s Minister of Youth, Sports, Art and Recreation.She also started the Kirsty Coventry Academy, which teaches young children swimming and water safety.
Through her Academy, Kirsty has also started the HEROES program, which is working to empower children through sport.
“My message to young people is that you need to have your own self belief. Self-belief is so powerful! Never lose your self belief. Remember to work hard and sacrifice”
Chantelle Jeradi is a business owner, co-founder of Love Drive Zimbabwe and also a lifestyle content creator. Jeradi believes in African women leading the development and success of Africa.
A bright young Bachelor’s Business Administration (Marketing) Graduate who is eager to learn and develop her skills and career in creative marketing.
Chantelle has worked at TBWA Zimbabwe as an Account Manager, handling their digital marketing, client relationship management, quality control and overall marketing strategies and administration.
Business Owner- Riso Jeradi is an ethical clothing brand that specialises in crochet and fabric pieces. Our clothing is custom made to fit different shapes, sizes and preferences. Everything can be made according to your specifications and what you are more confident wearing
Chantelle is also an avid writer with a lifestyle blog called Riso Jeradi that allows her to explore and improve her creative writing as well as my entrepreneurial streak as she sells some clothing products.
“I have a soft spot for children and I am actively involved in community development through an initiative called Love Drive that identifies and assists certain communities in improving their education structures and well being of the children in the community.”
Vongai Motsi who is a young, hardworking and ambitious lady who seeks to make an impact in the world using her God given talents of speech and creativity.
An only girl in a family of 4 children, she was born in Harare Zimbabwe where she studied her primary (Masaisai Primary School) and secondary education (Arundel School).
She is a high honours student who got a 100% scholarship to do her masters in International Relations and Diplomacy (in Turkey).
She is also a youtuber in which her channel focuses on education/information/fashion/lifestyle and vlogs. She gathered skills of public speaking during her undergraduate studies where she was the president of the student representative club. She also managed to volunteer and teach young Turkish children the English Language which opened doors for her to pursue public speaking at more official level( paid events).
She also hosts/MCs events. She runs pads donation and distribution campaigns in Zimbabwe whilst pushing for her adopt a child policy in where more financially stable young people are being encouraged to adopt a child, not legally, but take one child to school, pay for their uniforms and well being for a year.
So far, 100 young Zimbabweans from the Domboshava area have benefitted from this initiative.
During her holidays in Zimbabwe she hosts grooming and deportment classes for young girls so that they can enter into teenage hood with knowledge about what is to come and how to take care of oneself. Vongai is an entrepreneur.
She runs a luxury store where she sells luxury items: clothes, shoes and bags. She also launched her eyelash line: Queen Auxi Lux Lashes.
She is currently working on a book and a few article publications as well. She functions with the motto of “if you fail to plan you are planning to fail.”
Ethan Moyo is an award winning, result oriented and aspiring global serial entrepreneur, who believes in being at the forefront in helping achieve the much needed global development, to ensure future generations inherit ample means to meet their aspirations.
He is the President, Chief Executive Officer and holds a 60percent Shareholding at Zueth Petroleum (Pvt) Ltd, which strives at complimenting long term goals in finding solutions to the energy deficit in the SADC region.
Ethan Moyo is the group executive chairman at Zueth International Group of companies which has diverse interests in highly economic industrial sectors, including real estate, renewable energy, construction, oil and gas and logistics. He was recently appointed an executive director at Marhaba group of companies, which is a London and Dubai based company, with interest in Medical equipment, farming and philanthropy.
In 2019 He was acknowledged as a prominent figure in regional youth entrepreneurship.
With Ethan Moyo being the youngest individual in Zimbabwe to ever run an oil and gas esteemed organisation,
He firmly believes that there is no limit to what one can achieve, except the limit you place on your own thinking.
He is built on honest and true principles, which have ushered him into the presence of great opportunities.
He believes that effective solutions required to change a nation, are all in the hands of the youth, as such he is moving with great resolve and determination on the road of development and prosperity by utilising all kinds of resources to build a modern infrastructural economy across all international boarders.
Soul’d Dreams
Soul’d Dreams has been able to actively start shaping the new Zimbabwe by creating a fashion brand that looks at transcending fashion and becoming more than just a brand as well as becoming a catalyst in helping create a better tomorrow today.
Tadiwa is heady mix of entrepreneurial zeal and creativity. In his first year he launched a clothing brand, Soul’d Dreams, focusing on Southern African Street wear.
The brand manufactures jackets, hoodies, caps and T-shirts and phone cases in Manchester and ships internationally as well a selling via pop up shops in Zimbabwe.
Chengetai is a charity organisation that seeks to aid in providing sustainable access to sanitary wear to girls in Zimbabwe.
The organisation was founded in March of 2019 in light of unstable economic situation in Zimbabwe which has led to increased difficulty in maintaining good menstrual management.
As Chengetai they provide education on menstrual management and the dangers of the lack there of as well as providing lessons on hand-sewing sanitary wear.
The organisation has conducted education sessions at schools such as Bishopslea, St.Vincent and an upcoming session at Selbourne Routledge, Popularly known as the Amapiano Queen, Sha Sha is a celebrated singer and songwriter who recently won accolades internationally such as the BET Award for new and international act and recently in Zimbabwe the PPC Zimbabwe music award for best international Zim artistz.
She has been the voice heard across all radio and dance floors across the country.
The young beauty from Mutare has become a sought after vocalist in amapiano and it’s no surprise why.After pursuing music professionally and having her singles hit the airwaves in Zimbabwe, the rising start moved to South Africa.
She started doing gigs, grew a fan base but things really changed when she was introduced her to award winning producer, DJ Maphorisa. Following their introduction to the DJ, Sha Sha was featured on songs like ‘Nge Thanda Wena’ by the Scorpion Kings and ‘Akulaleki’ by Samthing Soweto, which helped cement her name in the music industry.
On the 1st of November 2019 she dropped her debut EP, Blossom, which produced hits like ‘Tender Love’, ‘Something About You’ and ‘Sing It Back’.
Not one to be limited, Sha Sha’s EP is a combination of various sounds from Amapiano, pop and afro beat. It is this ability to sing across musical genres that keeps her in high demand.
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