Good morning 5am club. Learn to pause before reacting impulsively. Anger wants speed. Ego wants the last word. Give yourself space to think. Slow down and youβll improve almost every area of your life.πΊ
Zimbabweβs biggest funeral assurance group, Nyaradzo, has bought the Glen Forest cemetery, which will now be called the Sahwira Glen Forest Memorial Park.
The Nyaradzo Group was founded by Zimbabwean serial entrepreneur Philip Mataranyika.
The new Sahwira Glen Forest Memorial Park is being designed as far more than just a cemetery. The plans show a major transformation into a modern memorial estate with luxury-style gated entrances, landscaped gardens, a full crematorium, a large contemporary chapel complex and even a restaurant and bar overlooking water features and green spaces.
Nyaradzo said it will create a peaceful, dignified environment where families can gather, remember loved ones and spend time together, rather than simply visiting a traditional burial ground.
The architectural designs show that Nyaradzo wants to introduce a completely new standard for memorial parks in Zimbabwe, combining remembrance, hospitality, ceremony and modern infrastructure in one integrated space.
The development also includes the construction of new paved internal roads, landscaped driveways, modern parking areas, pedestrian walkways and controlled access infrastructure designed to improve accessibility and the overall visitor experience, alongside water features and carefully planned green spaces aimed at creating a peaceful and organised memorial environment.
It gives me great pleasure to see Zimbabweans building companies from scratch, which is exactly what Philip Mataranyika did, turning Nyaradzo into an international company operating across different countries.
More often than not, we do not celebrate each other enough, yet every Zimbabwean should be proud to see companies like Nyaradzo achieving things like this. Congratulations to the Nyaradzo Group, and I wish you even more success in the future.
Mataranyika has shown that black businessmen can create generational businesses capable of outliving their founders, something Zimbabwe desperately needs if it is to become a true economic success story. Building institutions that survive beyond individuals is how strong economies are created. Well done, Nyathi.