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Number 85 on the 2025 list
Anxious Masuka is a minister of lands from Zimbabwe, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for announcing Zimbabwe's second record wheat harvest in a row.
In October 2025 Dr Anxious Masuka announced Zimbabwe's second record wheat harvest in a row. With part of the crop still in the field, 578,059 tonnes had been harvested from 110,543 hectares, beating 2024's record of 562,091 tonnes and far above the national need of about 360,000 tonnes. Some 16,362 farmers grew wheat in 2025, up from a crop of just 94,000 tonnes in 2019.