{"id":243,"date":"2015-11-22T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zamgem.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2024-04-07T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:15:00","slug":"nikiwe-zulu-gemmologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/nikiwe-zulu-gemmologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikiwe Zulu, Certified Gemologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;265&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nikiwe Zulu,\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Founder of Zamgem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Contact Nikiwe&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fzamgem.com%2Fcontact%2F||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]Nikiwe Zulu is a certified gemologist (ING, FEEG*) who lives between Paris (France) and Zambia. After having studied and worked in France and the United States, Nikiwe has decided to focus on developing trade between Zambia and France. She imports fine gemstones, notably emeralds, as well as fine specimens.<\/p>\n<p>Although her familly is from eastern Zambia, Nikiwe was born in the northern region of Ndola, where her father, an engineer by profession, worked\u00a0in the mining sector. In addition to English and French, she speaks Chewa and Bemba fluently. These two local\u00a0languages are useful when sourcing gemstones in Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>Nikiwe works very closely with jewelers and\u00a0connoisseurs.\u00a0She has built a reputation based on the quality of stones she supplies.<\/p>\n<p>(*) Graduated from &#8216;Institut National de Gemmologie&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingemmologie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ING Paris<\/a>), \u00a0&#8216;Federation of European Education in Gemmology&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feeg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FEEG London<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersonuniversity.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anderson University<\/a> (Master in Business Administration).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;265&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][vc_column_text] Nikiwe Zulu,\u00a0 Founder of Zamgem [\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Contact Nikiwe&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fzamgem.com%2Fcontact%2F||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]Nikiwe Zulu is a certified gemologist (ING, FEEG*) who lives between Paris (France) and Zambia. After having studied and worked in France and the United States, Nikiwe has decided to focus on developing trade between Zambia and France. She imports fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamgem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}