in his home country. The two also started a non-profit organisation, Higherlife Foundation, which empowers disadvantaged children through education and creating opportunities for highly talented young people. Through one of the largest scholarship programmes in Africa, the Foundation pays the school fees for children in Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Burundi who they call their "history makers" In January 2020 he paid for Zimbabwe's doctors to return to work after they struck to get paid. Masiyiwa agreed to pay each doctor a subsistence allowance of about $300 (£230) and provide them with transport to work, through a fund he set up. Most of the doctors on strike were earning less than $100 a month. Personal life Masiyiwa is a Christian. He is married to Tsitsi, they have six children, and live in London, England. Masiyiwa owns two adjacent apartments atop the 29-storey Eldorado Tower at 300 Central Park in New York City, bought for US$24.5 million in 2016. On 7 July 2022, Masiyiwa became the first black billionaire to enter the Sunday Times Rich List with a net worth of £1.6 billion. References External links Masiyiwa profile page Zimbabwean businesspeople Zimbabwean philanthropists 1961 births Giving Pledgers 21st-century philanthropists Living people Zimbabwean billionaires Businesspeople in telecommunications Alumni of the University of Wales Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences Honorary Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences