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Early life

Born Phillip Chiyangwa on the 3rd of February 1959 in Chegutu.

Family

Father – Divaris Makaharis

Mother- Marita Mandivenga

Uncle- Robert Mugabe

Spouse(s)-Elizabeth Juma(1986)

Brothers- David “Mr Bulk” Chiyangwa, James “Jimmy Jimalo” Chiyangwa

Children- Ellen Vanessa, Michelle, Bruce, Tamara, Loreto Margaret, Stephanie, Edmund, Phillip Munetsi Junior, Cherish Natasha

Education

Primary Education- Chegutu Primary school

Secondary Education- St. Francis Secondary school

Universal College in Highfield (1976)

Commercial Cotcers College (1977)

Fellow of the institute of Proffessional Management and Admin (Jersey U.K)

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Leadership-Dominica,St Luma University.

Career

Founder-Phids Electric Sounds

Manager- Hosea Chipanga, Erosion Band.

Boxing promotion and manager for Proud Kilimanjaro Chinembiri Gilbert Josamu, Ambrose Mlilo, and Langton Tinago

Founder-Commercial Industrial Agency

Co-founder- Affirmative Action Group

Founder -Native Investments Africa Group

Zifa president

Regional president of COSAFA

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Phillip Chiyangwa

School / Education

Tertiary:Chiyangwa said he attended Universal College in Highfield and did bookkeeping, elementary, intermediate and advanced certificates in 1976. In 1977, he did Accounting Machines (NCR and Burroughs) at Commercial Careers College, (now ZDECO). He also did an advanced diploma in accounting. Chiyangwa said he did accounting and bookkeeping for a lot of black business people and this also inspired him to go into business. [2]

Service/Career

Chiyangwa's first job was working as a garden boy for an elderly Portuguese family that had left Mozambique at Independence in 1975. [2]

Chiyangwa later worked at Dunlop Zimbabwe as an Industrial Engineering Assistant and Work Study Trainee. [2] He also later worked for Willowvale Mazda Motor Industries and Van Leah in the early 80s.[2]For a detailed interview of Phillip Chiyangwa

Chiyangwa's first business was Phids Electric Sounds, a disco that Chiyangwa said became very popular in Chitungwiza. He ended up managing some artists like Hosiah

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PHILIP CHIYANGWA (PHILLIP CHIYANGWA) is one of the most known Zimbabwean black businessmen to emerge in independent Zimbabwe, who features prominently in Africa's Richest Black People List. His meteoric rise from a barefoot and spike haired vegetable vendor in the dusty streets of Hartley (now Chegutu) in Rhodesia to a flamboyant businessman, property developer and politician in Zimbabwe has never been understood by many, who have more often than not, claimed that his wealth is ill-gotten. Daring and unshaken in his spirited quest to get richer and richer, Mr Chiyangwa — who says he has a PhD in Common Sense — has courted controversy on his road to riches. ISDORE GUVAMOMBE (IG) talks to Mr Chiyangwa (PHILLIP CHIYANGWA) about his upbringing, Business Empire, wealth and the future.





IG: Who is Philip Chiyangwa? 

PHILLIP CHIYANGWA: I am a businessman, who has gone through a long way. I did not get my wealth yesterday. I got it through years of hard work, investment, reinvestment and strategic planning.

I am Christian but I must say these things are not m

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