Tsitsi masiyiwa profile by sanford
Tsitsi Masiyiwa is an African philanthropist and social entrepreneur who has devoted her life to empowering the lives of young people....
I am a practicing engineer and an entrepreneur.
Tsitsi Masiyiwa is a philanthropist and the wife of Zimbabwean millionaire Strive Masiyiwa. Before her husband became a billionaire, they were virtually penniless and struggled to feed themselves and their children.
“We were so broke.
We couldn’t even afford to give our visitors tea,” Tsitsi Masiyiwa said in retrospect in an interview with Forbes. “We were practically living from hand to mouth.”
Tsitsi Masiyiwa recalled that things were not always so dire.
Prior to that, her husband had founded Retrofit Engineering, an electrical contracting firm that handled big federal construction contracts, and had amassed a sizable fortune, according to Forbes.
However, his fortunes changed in 1993 when he established Zimbabwe’s first independent mobile telecoms network to compete with the state-run Zimbabwean Post & Telecommunications Corporation (PTC).
He was denied a license after being questioned.
When he brought the matter to court, the government retaliated by suspending all