Zimbabwe’s new face of social entrepreneurialism — @263Chat

For the past five years, entrepreneur and media mogul Trevor Ncube has advocated for a “Third Way” in Zimbabwean politics. Disillusioned and disappointed with Zimbabwe’s two largest political parties, Ncube envisions a grand political party, made up of the best men and women across the political divide, business community, and civil society. Ncube’s vision sadly remains unfulfilled in the political realm, but has gown roots in Zimbabwe’s budding social media world. Thirty-something accountant Nigel Mugamu (a.k.a. “SirNige”) has succeeded where political leaders have failed, by building a substantive policy forum, inclusive of Zimbabweans across geographic, ethnic and political divides, and he is doing it all on Twitter.

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