Lovemore Fuyane (Community Leader and Activist, UZ SRC Secretary General 92/93)
Born 16 August 1970
Place of Birth – Gaths Mine
Family
Mother – Gladys Fuyana nee Nzombe from Chirumhanzu
Father – Musa Fuyana from Kezi
Siblings – First of 4 children, two boys and two girls but brother now late
Education
First Primary School
Silonkwe Primary School In Kezi, 1977 and one or two weeks of 1978 when school closed due to war
Second primary school
St Stanislaus School a Roman Catholic School about 30km from Masvingo off Masvingo-Harare highway, 1979-1980, father Caretaker at Alvord Training Centre In Makoholi
Third primary school
Molife Primary School In Domboshava, father worked at Domboshawa Training Centre as caretaker 1980-1881
Fourth Primary School
Hillside Jnr in Bulawayo, father had then joined Natural Resources Board In Bulawayo – 1982-1983
High School
Hamilton High School, Bulawayo form 1-6, 1984-1989
University
University of Zimbabwe 1990-1993, Bsc Hon Metallurgy, also SRC Secretary General (2982/93)
Subsequently MBL (UNISA), Dipl SMB (INSEAD) France
Career
Work experience, Metallurgy/Process Engineering, Management Consulting, Banking
Favorite Foods
‘Traditional dishes such as umbhida Wendumba and Salmon, rural Gweru mushrooms. Fruits…peaches, nectarines all day plus any and all berries. Another favorite is what I call the X factor fruit, uxakuxaku, nyii and umviyo (nzviringombe).’
Languages
‘Ndebele, Shona and functionally literate in Kalanga, Tswana, Afrikaans, and will do just fine in China, and Arab speaking location, Tumbuka, French, Spanish plus many others I can’t remember right now.’
Best Friends
‘My best friends are my wife by miles, my late grandfather, my mother, siblings and virtually all my in-laws. I also count Tabs Gondwe, My cousin Mbakisi Dube, Terence Msuku, Shepherd Mnkantjo, the late Fortune Mukoma, Nhlanhla Dube, Tholiwe Ndebele, Simisani Khupe, cousin Fortune Khupe, Dumisani Muhlwa, Sifiso Falala, Khanyile Ncube and many others among them. The reason my kids don’t fall into this list is that, like my grandfather was my best friend and not my father theirs was my father. The father-son relationship is treated as being more relevant in our culture. And so my father and my kids were also inseparable. Since his passing away my sons and I have become closer, I had to step in and take over his role.’
Favorite musicians
George Sibanda, Jodeci, Hezekiah Walker, Tupac, Peter Tosh, Guy, Don Carlos, The Beatles and Rick Ross.
Heroes
His grandfather, father, Inkosi Mzilikazi, Khondwane/Mkhaliphi Ndiweni, Enrico Fermi, Joshua Nkomo, Magwegwe Fuyana (an altruist), Simom Mazorodze, Leo Messi, LeBron James, Prince Njube Khumalo, Ernesto Che Guevara and Pope Francis.
