adminforced to move with the family to Nyanga, after his father got a job at Troutbeck Inn. As such, he only started school in the area attending Nyamhuka Primary School in Nyanga for his primary education.
Lovemore and his parents lived 25km from the school forcing him and his siblings to wake up at around 5 O’clock in the morning to catch Harare bound buses to get to the school and had to break early to catch the returning buses.
“The whole of my primary education I never attended afternoon classes or activities at the school because I had to catch the buses on their way from Harare which passed around 2pm everyday”, he said.
To cap his troubled primary education, Lovemore was unfortunately involved in an accident a few days before sitting for his Grade Seven Examinations and had to be hospitalised for three days. He was only discharged on the condition that he would write the examinations under close supervision.
Fortunately for him, he managed to pass and was awarded a bursary which saw him enrol at Marist Brothers High School (Nyanga) for his secondary education. It was at the school that he met his close friend and co-author Mutize.
“It is at Marist High that I started authoring short stories in my spare time. I was also involved with the athletics clubs at the school. I was a top sprinter in the 400m category. And in 1996, I made it into the national team but the trip was cancelled because Government could not raise the finances to travel.
Lovemore was chosen as the headboy for junior classes at Marist High and scooped the leadership prize, sportsman of the year award, and several academic awards at the school.
On completion of high school, Lovemore enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe and again, joined Mutize, who was already reading for a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree.
While at the UZ, Tembo and Mutize joined AIESEC, a global, non-political, non-profit organisation run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education, whose members are interested in world issues, leadership and management.
Although the Club was said to be open to commercial students only Lovemore, who was reading psychology managed to join the group, whose aim was to teach young people how to start and formalise their businesses. At the club they would interact with several people in the cooperate world.
After college in 2004, he got a call from renowned motivational speaker, Milton Kamwendo, informing him of a vacancy at Homage Funeral services. Lovemore went for an interview and got the job in the marketing department were he stayed until mid-2006.
In 2006, he went to South Africa anticipating to get employment, but after a couple of unsuccessful interviews, he started marketing products online and his landlord, who was from Germany, linked him to some of his business associates locally and abroad. He was soon to be introduced to a South African man who worked for Cosatu and the man helped him with contacts and also taught him how to edit scripts.
Lovemore managed to earn a living through marketing and he stayed in South Africa until 2010, when he came back to Zimbabwe to attend to his sister-in-law’s wedding.
“While I was in Zimbabwe for the wedding ceremony, I again hooked up with Mutize who had been working for Renaisance Bank in Uganda and formed a company called Paradigm Shifters, dealing in business consultancy and entrepreneurial development.
“In 2011, we decided to put our ideas into a book hence I co-authored a motivational book on business consultancy and entrepreneurship titled as “Paradigm Shifters.”
Lovemore was responsible for editing the book and advertising it on the Internet.
“The book was posted on Amazon and Lulu web pages under the title “Pioneering Infinite Possibilities”. We had to change the title after getting feedback from people saying the title didn’t tally with the contents of the book,” he added.
The book, Paradigm Shifters, will take you through the requisite steps to ascertain where you stand, quantify the myriad of resources at your disposal, determine where you want to go with your life, affirm what you want to achieve and live your life to its full potential.
Lovemore is married to Shupai Chibaya and has a four-year-old son, Tinayeishe. Mutize is a single father to a four-year-old girl.
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