George Tawengwa

Who is George Tawengwa?

George Tawengwa Snr was the first black millionaire and a very prominent Zimbabwe businessman who was engaged in transport, retail, hotel and agriculture industries. He was the owner of Mushandirapamwe Hotel at Machipisa shopping centre in Highfield, Harare and others. In 1960 he was the first black person to purchase a 1,872.0-hectare commercial farm from a white farmer, in the then colonial system by a racist white minority of Southern Rhodesia. To mark a historic milestone Tawengwa and his wife Mabel Tawengwa were featured in a 1977 edition of The Rhodesia Herald newspaper, when they purchased five farms for cash. Farms are Shaka Hills, Sheba amongst others in the Hwedza district.