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UNTOLD SUCCESS STORIES: DENVER SADZIWA


WEDNESDAY, 02 MAY 2012 18:52
STAFF REPOTER


Zimbabwe has some of the greatest people in
the world. Many of these people will never have
someone to tell their story. Well that is about to
change. He did not have to be in the entertainment
world. He did not have to be the richest man in
the world. But his success story is worth sharing as we rise up as a
nation and we commemorate each other.


This is the untold success story of Denver Sadziwa.  Denver is an
ordinary young man.Originally from Mutasa district in Mutare Zimbabwe,
he was born in Harare at Mbuya Nehanda maternity hospital in 1992. He was
raised in Chitungwiza. Denver got a scholarship at LeMoyne Owen College with
the help of New Seasons Youth Program. As a young man his dream and ambition
was to always be a certified public accountant (CPA).

After getting the opportunity to pursue his dream, Denver took full advantage.
In his first year as a freshman in College, Denver received an Academic Honor
Award, for an outstanding GPA OF 3.8. This young man truly knows why he left
his home to go the Diaspora. Denver Sadziwa is the name we all should keep
in our minds. This young man is still in the early stages of his success story,
but we can already tell he is one to watch. From the city of Chitungwiza
Zimbabwe, a city that many people in his class if not all will never know
or see. Out of that place came this man that they are now honouring and giving
Academic Awards. This is a truly untold success story.

If you were born and raised in Zimbabwe you would know that it is very easy for people
to loose focus when they go to the Diaspora. Many people have lost touch and they spend
most of their lives labouring in low paying, long hour jobs. Jobs that they do not even like. If
you can not draw inspiration from fellow countryman like Denver, who has refused to
let his history shape his future, I do not know what will inspire you.

This is what Denver had to say when asked about his future: " I see myself
joining Ernest and Young or Price Waterhouse Coopers as an associate one day. With
my fellow participants in the New Seasons Youth Program, we are trying to come up
with a fund to help other young peopl from back in Africa as a whole. We are still working
on the project and brainstorming different ideas but that is our aim."

BY STEPHANIE CHIYANGWA

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