Exploring the Life and Career of Desmond Mahachi

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Desmond Mahachi is currently the Managing Director and CEO of Mahachi Desmond Private limited Company which he assumed still a teenager. So one might be curious to know his educational background and qualifications of the so called uniquesceo. He's a self made individual, no generational inherited wealth but only hardwork and determination.

Background

Born to a simple family in Gutu on a border line of being poor and average but rich in intellect, Desmond grew up to be a passionate individual in all fields of academia, a trait some debate that it is from the father some say from the mother and some say from both. His father NF Mahachi is a qualified Mathematics teacher but at some point worked in the accounts and stores management departments at Border Timbers ltd , Tibury Estate Chimanimani. Aslo his mother Y Manenji was a teacher during these times and later became a salesperson. This diversification and Openmindeness of the parents seems to have manifested in the only son who's the middle child of the family.

Growing up Desmond was just a universal gift of any domain you may think of : music, percussion, volleyball, basketball, athletics( sprinting, long distance, long jump, high jump, discuss), soccer, quiz, traditional dance , chess, and of course in class he was the boss. Even upto now he can still give you some headache in any field you think you are the best at , it might be Astronomy, medicine, Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Electronics, Politics, Management, Finance, Theology, Physics,Computer Applications etc.

By grade 4 he was already solving ordinary level(secondary school) problems in Maths,Accounting, Commerce and Science. He had a vision of integrating all the components of life into one so as to create informed decisions and solutions to solve human problems.

Academic Timeline

2009 - 2013

ECD A to Grade 3 at Tilbury Primary School, Chimanimani. Was much more aligned to reading stories, movies on self defense, plus making toys.

2013- 2017

Grade 3 to 7 at Maregedze Primary School, Gutu. More involved in algebra and directed numbers, physics, biology, agriculture and novels. Also plays football as central defender and keeper. Was in the school teams of music, percussion, Physical Education, atheletics, volleyball, traditional dance,quiz,basketball and soccer during this period. Is the time he got to realize about electric motors, directed numbers and algebra, genes and cells, accounting trial balances, and commerce. Is the time he read most of the novels e.g Jekanyika, Surgeon Chimedza, Tambaoga mwanangu, Pfumoreropa, Gonawapotera, Zimunzwa mundove etc.

He completed grade 7 with 6 units and was the district higest in Gutu.

2018 - 2021

Enrolled at Muzondo high school in Chivi District for secondary school. In 2019 he became serious with Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and little involvement with novels and completed them before end of year. He came to realize how electromagnetism works, galaxies, Bionics and Xray, a and b ct and ultrasonic scanning.He was also actively righting songs approximately 135 by 2021. During this time he was also studying Python and C but not seriously.In 2020 self studying sat for Chemistry, Accounting and Biology which were not being studied at the school.

In 2021 he obtained 10 As 3 Bs and was the highest at the school and second in the district to someone with 11As 1B

2022- 2023

Enrolled at Chibi high school as a border in a bid to show how equal footing is beneficial in achieving life goals. He was self studying Accounting and Mechanical Mathematics in addition to the other five subjects which could be accommodated on the time table which were already 2 in excess of A level requirements. Alongside this, he was writing songs such as “Everyday”, learning programming ( R, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript… .), Business Management(which he didn't sit for in the exam), Managerial Economics , Further Mathematics among others.

He obtained 7 As i.e 35 points and was the national highest that year but media didn't say anything about him.

2024- present

While at home, he was assisting O and A level students, while studying anatomy and general surgery alongside Financial analysis, Financial Risk Management. During this time he was also developing and modifying his ideas from childhood, writing a business plan, doing research and analysis. He then went on to enroll in ZTF till operation with a hope of working a little before going to university and also enrolled in Interweave's Master of Business in the streets program. At the time was also studying some Arduino programming, aerospace and psychology,Japanese, Kungfu alongside looking after broilers at home. Watching movies was also order of the day.

Fast forward to October when he went to India on a Presidential Scholarship Programme. The first semester ended with him having the highest GPA in the stream of 9.52/10. In December before end of first semester and also still 19 years old, incorporated his first private limited company back home making him the only self made teenage founder and CEO in Zimbabwe. Now it is time to apply the Board Governance, CSR and the lessons learned from The book “The hot seat”.

Right now he's about to go into second year of Btech Mechanical Engineering, but during the holiday is already studying towards a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Computer Applications(self studying), a BSC in Social Sciences (on Sobat) and various courses on Alison and UniAnthena.

Conclusion

To include everything related to this individual will take a lot of time, so we have to omit things like his Academia.edu participation and other minor details. So in short Desmond is a Mechanical engineering student at KIIT in India Bhubaneswar and also a cofounder of Mahachi Desmond private limited and have an interest in Sciences, Business, Space and Computers ( robotics) .

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