President Robert Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has moved Professor Jonathan Moyo to higher education, replacing the former information minister with Prisca Mupfumira in an acting capacity.
The latest cabinet reshuffle, announced late Monday afternoon, saw Kembo Mohadi moved to state security while former local government minister Ignatius Chombo replaced him at home affairs.
Chombo was replaced by Zanu PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere who was in charge of the water and climate change portfolio.
Oppah Muchinguri replaced Kasukuwere.
Nyasha Chikwinya becomes the minister of women affairs while Retired brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri becomes minister of state for Mashonaland East, taking over for the newly elected Zanu PF provincial chairman Joel Biggie Matiza.
The ministers were sworn in by Mugabe at the State House and their specific assignments were announced by chief secretary to the president and cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda.
Public focus was on Moyo who was recently asked to step down from the information portfolio following his election as MP for Tsholotsho North last month.
Mugabe had handpicked Moyo to occupy a cabinet post even though he had lost to MDC-T’s Roselene Nkomo in the July 2013 elections. The other ministries remain unchanged. – NewZimbabwe
Reshuffled and new ministers
*Nyasha Chikwinya – Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development.
* Jonathan Moyo -Minister of Higher & Tertiary Education
*Ignatius Chombo – Home Affairs.
*Kembo Mohadi – Minister of State Security in the President’s Office
*Saviour Kasukuwere – Local Government, public works & National Housing
*Prisca Mupfumira will act as Information minister, as President Mugabe is yet to appoint a minister for the portfolio.
*Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri – Minister of Environment, Water & Climate
*Rtd Brig Ambrose Mutinhiri has been sworn in as a provincial minister not a cabinet minister