Top 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Phillip Chiyangwa

He was born in Chegutu

Phillip is the seventh born in a family of 14

His mother was a vendor who sold vegetables

Chiyangwa’s father was a restrictee, a political detainee in Whawha and Gonakudzingwa

When Chiyangwa was in grade 3 he learnt with 15 year olds in his class

Chiyangwa used to cycle 15km from where the vegetables were delivered and he would buy all of them to sell to the people. His mother ended up becoming a wholesaller.

Phillips first job was being a garden a garden boy for a Portuguese family.

He attended Universal College in Highfield

Phillip did bookkeeping, elementary, intermediate and advanced certificates in 1976.

In 1977, Phillip did Accounting Machines (NCR and Burroughs) at Commercial Cotcers College, now Zedco.

Phillip worked at York House in Bulawayo, now owned by Mines Minister Cde Obert Mpofu. He attained an advanced diploma in accounting while he was working there.

In 1980 Phillip joined Dunlop Zimbabwe as an Industrial Engineering, Assisted and Work Study Trainee.

Chiyangwa knows the whole process of making a tyre.

Phillip was called by Willovale for an interview and finished answering questions in a record 15 minutes of the stipulated 30 and he got 100 percent.

Chiyangwa met Gidion Gono in 1982.

Phids electronic sounds was Phillips first business.

He became a promotor and managed Hosea Chipanga, the Erosion Band and others.

In the 1990s, he became the first black to own a Betting Licence and the whites were after him. He had 43 branches throughout the country and employed more than 183 people.

Phillip founded AAG (Affirmative Action Group), 17 years ago with the late Peter Pamire.

The council was broke and he gave them money for salaries, US$7,1 million and they gave him land