About Sipambi
Sipambi is led by a team of the dedicated, qualified and experienced professionals. The Sipmabi team bring value in being professionals in their areas of business and through their extensive knowledge, they are able to provide the best suited solutions for our clients.
Mission Statement
Vast experience from our past:
Our well documented Zimbabwean heritage gives our partners and clients the assurance that we are here to uphold our heritage and integrity passed from our forefathers. The humanity and ethics engrained in us from generation to generation provide the platform for establishment of the Sipambi brand.
Confidence to face the future:
With the sound foundation built on heritage, experience and qualifications,
Sipambi is poised to take on the African continent
Our Logo
The Sipambi logo is a morphed image consisting of 3 main components
The Lion (the ouline of the logo is a Lion’s mane):
In Zimbabwe totems (mitupo) have been in use among the Shona people from the initial stages of their culture. The use of totems identifies the different clans that historically made up the ancient civilizations of the dynasties that ruled the Shona people from Great Zimbabwe. Most notably these symbols were associated with animal names. The purpose of the totem was meant to guard against incestuous behaviour; for the social identity of the clan; and also to praise someone in recited poetry. In contemporary Shona society there are at least 25 identifiable totems (mitupo) with at least 60 principal names (zvidawo).Every Shona clan is identified by a particular totem (mutupo) and principal praise name (chidawo). The principal praise name in this case is used to disitinguish people who have the same totem but are from different clans; for example clans that share the same totem Shumba (lion) will show their different clansmanship by using a particular praise name like Murambwe, or Nyamuziwa. The foundations of the totems are inspired in rhymes that reference the history of the totem. The Lion is the totem and Sipambi is a chidawo of the Charumbira Chiefdom.
The Zimbabwe Ruins (the conical tower can be seen in the centre of the logo)
Stone Ruins
The ruins of this complex of massive stone walls undulate across almost 1,800 acres of present-day southeastern Zimbabwe. Begun during the eleventh century A.D. by Bantu-speaking ancestors of the Shona, Great Zimbabwe was constructed and expanded for more than 300 years in a local style that eschewed rectilinearity for flowing curves. Neither the first nor the last of some 300 similar complexes located on the Zimbabwean plateau, Great Zimbabwe is set apart by the terrific scale of its structure. Its most formidable edifice, commonly referred to as the Great Enclosure, has walls as high as 36 feet extending approximately 820 feet, making it the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara Desert. In the 1800s, European travelers and English colonizers, stunned by Great Zimbabwe’s its grandeur and cunning workmanship, attributed the architecture to foreign powers. Such attributions were dismissed when archaeological investigations conducted during the first decades of the twentieth century confirmed both the antiquity of the site and its African origins.
The Kraal (the foot of the conical tower in the logo depicts a kraal dwelling located at the ruins site)
The word Kraal is an Afrikaans or Dutch word for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock. This was also used to signify a collection of either Hottentot or Bantu huts. In 1910 Kidd describes a kraal as “The natives live in round huts, which are built from wattle and daub. A kraal consists of a number of these huts grouped in a circle or crescent; the cattle-kraal, which is usually a large circular enclosure made of thorn-bush branches, in the centre of the circle or else on the cord of the cresent.
