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Prince Harry once had a Zimbabwean girlfriend he almost married and now His Royal Highness has chosen 10 youths from Zimbabwe to work for him as media coordinators.
The 10 Zimbabwean youths have been selected to work with the fourth heir to the throne on his recently launched Invictus Games programme for wounded soldiers.
The youths, part of a larger group of 60 Londoners, have been roped in as social media champions who will publish the upcoming games slated for September this year.

The prince met the group at Bethnal Green Academy in east London where he revealed that he hates micro-blogging website Twitter.
“I really quite hate Twitter,” said Harry as he took opportunity to hit out at the website for what he sees as its “invasion” of his privacy during an impromptu question and answer session.

“The issue for myself and my family, put quite simply, is that it’s very hard for me to tweet about the Invictus Games and tweet about something that means a lot to me, whereas I at the same time really quite hate Twitter by the invasion of privacy.

“I think you all understand what I’m talking about,” he said.
The 10 Zimbabwean youths have achieved various strides in their careers and below are their profiles:

Cynthia Masiyiwa
Cynthia Masiyiwa  programme manager for Active Horizons a youth-led charity organisation a member of Citizens UK. Young Woman of the Year 2013 (Women on the Move Awards) and ZAA Young achiever of the year 2013 for her outstanding work in the community advocating for young people and migrants.

Tawanda Mukoko
Tawanda is a Graduate from Bournemouth University and currently works as a Digital Project Manager for Flamingo Group. Tawanda has managed, set up and delivered innovative business platforms which directly impact communities globally.

Tawanda is one of the co-founders of a young, award winning organisation which focuses on increasing the participation of young global citizens in nation building programmes in Zimbabwe.

Sibongile Mazivisa
Sibongile is a student at Westminster Kingsway College, studying Government and Politics, English, History and Economics. She is also CEO of the college and as well as Student Governor, which means she is involved in the decision making of things that affect the college.

Chido Mukoko
Currently at Sixth form studying biology, chemistry, maths and business studies. Aspires to be a pharmacist. Mentored younger pupils in maths and Iooking to work for a company to tutor younger children.

Volunteered for the Olympics and recently did volunteer work at an RSPCA store in Woking. Volunteered at a care home doing activities with the elderly

Ashley Tawodzera
Ashley Tawodzera, is a graduate from the University of Zimbabwe, Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition. Wants to be a Public health nutritionist and help eradicate world hunger and malnutrition.

Niclette Mutandwa
Niclette represents her college in different sports activities and other extra curricular activities. She has done different voluntary works but her most memorable is when she spent 10 weeks in Tanzania helping the community.

Her most challenging experience was when she worked on a project with mature German students and had to go there for a week and present her final project.
Through all this she has also managed to maintain A* grades in her college work. Niclette volunteered to work as a kit carer during the Paralympics and has also volunteered to help get primary school kids involved in different sports activities.

Passi Mbaya
Passi is currently a student at Lesoco College and has just completed her health and social care level three course. This September she will be going to do “Access to Nursing”. Passi is one of the youth leaders at her church and gets involved with various activities such as choir, bookshop, charity projects and many more.

Samantha Tapfumaneyi
Samantha Tapfumaneyi (18) who goes by the name ( Samantha Allan ) is a freelance presenter wanting to follow in the footsteps of Oprah. She has worked with numerous companies, which has given her the opportunity to report at places such as Downing Street and interview celebrities at movie premiers.

She’s also the founder of a new online youth broadcaster ( Samantha.Allan.Online TV) which seeks inspire,empower and entertain the young generation. Samantha is inspired by strong women who refused to be ignored whilst aspiring to be a strong voice & presence for her generation.

Benjamin Hamandishe
Benjamin (19) has a strong balance of character and charisma. He aspires to study Political Science and International Relations at University of Birmingham this year. Serving the community is his top priority, and at whatever level or scale possible from street cleaning campaigns to charity, he loves to serve people.

Benjamin’s passion also lies in music, particularly singing. One of the highlights in his career has been sharing the stage with world renowned and multi-award winning artist Donnie McClurkin in 2010.

Having received advocacy training from Active Horizons, together with his intrigue in politics, he is determined to be an advocate for all who are facing any form of injustice in any part of the world, be it social, legal or political. Fashion styling, athletics long distance running and rugby are some of his other interests.

Nyasha Zaranyika
Nyasha is currently in her final year at Kingston University doing a Masters in Social Work. She has been working with young people in Maidstone with a local church since 2009. The role includes meeting weekly to discuss issues that affect young people such as bullying, peer pressure and self-love. Last year as part of her course she went to Mysore, India.

The group she was with worked for Kiriya Pushpa, ChildFund. She had the opportunity to go to the slums and raise awareness of the importance of education, speaking against child labour and corporate punishment. She also spent a few days working with women that had been rescued after being trafficked and forced into prostitution.

The experience was challenging but very rewarding for her. For the past couple of years she has worked in diverse roles with individuals at risk of harm.
“Working with women who are in the criminal justice system but are on community orders made me see how stereotypical societal opinions impact the way people are treated and viewed. People stop seeing the person but see the vulnerability,” says Nyasha, so for six months, from January she has worked for a Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults team in one of the London Boroughs. – DailyMail/zimeye.com