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Strive Masiyiwa

Type: Person

Name: Strive Masiyiwa

Title: Founder and chief executive officer

Organization: Econet Wireless Holdings

Date of Birth: 1961

Nationality: Zimbabwe

Fact Sheet: Biography for Strive Masiyiwa

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 2 reports

Virgin Unite

Richard Branson: Business Needs a Plan B

Introducing The B Team, a global non-profit founded by Jochen Zeitz, me and a group of wonderful partners and leaders. We will work together to deliver a Plan B for businesses -- a new way of doing business that prioritizes people and the planet alongside ... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Sir Richard Branson, Shari Arison, Strive Masiyiwa, Virgin Unite

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Social entrepreneurs — everyday heroes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP isn’t about selling things — it’s about finding innovative ways to improve people’s lives. Until recently, most people in business focused on products and services that would appeal to consumers, and this resulted in the creation of many ... [Published BDlive - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneurship, Econet, Charging Stations

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Southern Africa: Slow but steady

The 25 biggest companies in Southern Africa are all South African firms, so we provide a separate Southern African table in order to examine firms from the rest of the region.The biggest company by market capitalisation in our Southern African region ... [Published African Business - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Namibia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique, Econet

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Muhammad Yunus

Branson launches Plan B for business

Sir Richard Branson and Kering director Jochen Zeitz$ have set up The B Team,$ a not-for-profit organisation$ championing a new way of doing business. The organisation$ will work to draw up$ a ?Plan B? for businesses worldwide, ‘prioritising people and ... [Published E-Tid.com - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Sir Richard Branson, Jochen Zeitz, Shari Arison, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 4 reports

Sir Richard Branson

Shari Arison and Richard Branson Team Up to Do Good

Tags: B Team, Plan B, Global Affairs, Philanthropy, Business, Richard Branson, Shari Arison, Arianna HuffingtonThe B Team Kick Off, today, June 13. From left to right: Mo Ibrahim, Kathy Calvin, Jochen Zeitz, John Elkington, Richard Branson, Shari Arison ... [Published Goodnet - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Shari Arison, Sir Richard Branson, Strive Masiyiwa, Jochen Zeitz

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 09 2013 - 1 reports

Strive Masiyiwa

A glean into the smaller contesting parties

Last week, the Constitutional Court ruled that Zimbabwe should hold its harmonised elections by July 31 this year. Although a few political parties are against the deadline,a total of 28 parties have registered to participate in the polls and are already ... [Published sundaymail.co.zw - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Zimbabwe, Mutumwa Mawere, Strive Masiyiwa, Tendai

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Econet Wireless

Econet Wireless grows revenue but profit falls

HARARE — Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless has posted a 14% rise in revenue, underpinned by a $1bn investment in network capacity that drove the number of subscribers to 8-million by the end of February.Zimbabwe has steadily boosted its subscriber numbers, which ... [Published BDlive - May 31 2013]

Entities: Econet Wireless, Econet, Mobile Money, Zimbabwe

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Carbon War Room teams up with UN Initiative

The Carbon War Room founder, Strive Masiyiwa has joined the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative as a member of the Advisory Board.Launched in 2011, SE4All has three interlinked objectives to be achieved by 2030: provide universal access ... [Published Virgin Group - May 28 2013]

Entities: War Room (video game), Carbon, Initiative

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

How Africa's richest could transform education

These days, every country dreams of setting up a world class university. In many cases, the universities are modeled after the Ivy League universities in the US, or Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK. In Africa too, the role of higher education ... [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 27 2013]

Entities: Education, Ashesi University, Chris Kirubi, Manu Chandaria, Patrick Awuah

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Magazines: How Merali made Sh1.6b in one hour

Nairobi,Kenya:Naushad Merali, an Asian-Kenyan tycoon, knows how to profit from deals. Since the days of KenCell, Airtel and now Kenya Data Networks and SwiftGlobal, Merali has been able to get his timing right and make billions.For instance, Merali owned ... [Published East African Standard - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kenya, Vivendi SA, Liquid Telecom, Strive Masiyiwa, Bharti Airtel Ltd

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Resource optimism Koffi Annan in The Economist [NEW]

(2013-05-21) The Africa Progress Report found that the gap between resource growth and economic/social development is not just about Dutch disease and the traditional resource curse, but also because countries do not strike good deals with the extractive ... [Published Club of Mozambique - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kofi Annan, Mining, The Economist, Strive Masiyiwa

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Resource optimism

LONG before Baobab became a lowly journalist he scraped a living as a lowly academic. “If you’re so clever why aren’t you rich?” was a favourite tease of his less bookish but better-paid peers. The Africa Progress Report , prepared by an expert ... [Published Baobab - The Economist - May 14 2013]

Entities: Mining, Strive Masiyiwa, Tax Avoidance, Angola

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Richard Branson: Business Needs a Plan B [Published Huffington Post - Jun 18 2013]
Branson and Friends Hope to Hatch Plan B for Bu... [Published Brandchannel.com - Jun 17 2013]
Sir Richard Branson?s New B Team Envisions a Pl... [Published Triple Pundit - Jun 17 2013]
Social entrepreneurs — everyday heroes [Published BDlive - Jun 17 2013]
Southern Africa: Slow but steady [Published African Business - Jun 15 2013]
Branson launches Plan B for business [Published E-Tid.com - Jun 14 2013]
Branson launches ‘B-Team’ to do “what’s right f... [Published Green Wise - Jun 13 2013]
Shari Arison and Richard Branson Team Up to Do ... [Published Goodnet - Jun 13 2013]
The B Team challenge leaders revealed: who are ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Jun 13 2013]
Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz Reveal The B T... [Published Canada NewsWire - Jun 13 2013]
Arianna Huffington: People, Planet, Profit: Int... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 13 2013]
David Miliband returns to the UK for G8 debate ... [Published New Statesman - Jun 10 2013]
A glean into the smaller contesting parties [Published sundaymail.co.zw - Jun 09 2013]
?Broke? Telkom Kenya in dire straits [Published TechCentral.co.za - Jun 03 2013]
Econet Wireless grows revenue but profit falls [Published BDlive - May 31 2013]
Energy And Environment Update -- May 28, 2013 [Published JD Supra - May 30 2013]
Carbon War Room teams up with UN Initiative [Published Virgin Group - May 28 2013]
How Africa's richest could transform education [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 27 2013]
Sirleaf Receives African Women Pioneer Award, P... [Published FrontPageAfrica - May 27 2013]
Magazines: How Merali made Sh1.6b in one hour [Published East African Standard - May 21 2013]
Resource optimism Koffi Annan in The Economist... [Published Club of Mozambique - May 21 2013]
Speech: Making Mining work for Development: And... [Published Inside government - Department for Internationa ... - May 20 2013]
Resource optimism [Published Baobab - The Economist - May 14 2013]
Africa’s elders provide soil for seeds of youth [Published South Africa Star - Feb 06 2013]
From cycles to cell phones: tracking Africa’s m... [Published Global Investing - Feb 05 2013]
Biography for Strive Masiyiwa [Published Able2Act - Oct 03 2007]

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Speech: Making Mining work for Development: And... [Published Inside government - Department for Internationa ... - May 20 2013] Introduction I want first to congratulate the Government of Australia, and in particular my friends and colleagues in AusAid, for their initiative in hosting this event. You know more about this than most of us. Especially about how to do it well. Australia ...
Resource optimism [Published Baobab - The Economist - May 14 2013] LONG before Baobab became a lowly journalist he scraped a living as a lowly academic. “If you’re so clever why aren’t you rich?” was a favourite tease of his less bookish but better-paid peers. The Africa Progress Report , prepared by an expert ...
From cycles to cell phones: tracking Africa’s m... [Published Global Investing - Feb 05 2013] Mobile phone bills and beer consumption patterns are used by investors to assess how fast bank accounts are likely to grow in Africa , but what did investors count to gauge trends before there were mobile phones? The answer? Cattle, bicycles, radios, ...