Tsvangirai Appoints Cabinet, Leaves Out Powerful Organizing Secretary
"The shadow cabinet will not be a shadow of the Zanu PF cabinet in the strictest sense because the current government had failed and there was nothing either to monitor or to shadow.”
WASHINGTON DC — Movement for Democratic Change founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai, on Thursday announced his shadow cabinet that he said would work hard in crafting and articulating alternative policies and programmes for Zimbabwe. The party's national organizing secretary, Abednico Bhebhe, was left out of the cabinet for unknown reasons. He announced his shadow cabinet before the party’s national executive committee that met in Harare on the same day to discuss what the party terms the country’s national crisis. Tsvangirai said he had no doubt about the capacity of the men and women he had appointed. He stressed to the executive that “the shadow cabinet will not be a shadow of the Zanu PF cabinet in the strictest sense because the current government had failed and there was nothing either to monitor or to shadow.” Tsvangirai also noted that the current national cabinet was structured taking into cognizance the need to balance the Zanu PF factions and not necessarily to transform the lives of people. He said the MDC-T would “not follow a template tainted by patronage, tired nationalism and factionalism. He bemoaned the apparent policy discord currently in government and said the MDC team will be robust in taking government to account and in policy articulation.” Apart from the shadow cabinet, Tsvangirai also appointed a team of portfolio secretaries that will shadow key commissions, regulatory and statutory bodies. 1. Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) - Hon. Bheki Sibanda 2. Judicial services Commission - Hon. Innocent Gonese 3. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission - Hon. Murisi Zwizwai 4. Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority - Mr. Blessing Chebundo 5. Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission - Jon. Jessie Majome 6. Gender Commission ---------- Hon. Lillian Timveos 7. Zimbabwe human Rights Commission - Hon. James Makore 8. Zimbabwe Media Commission - Mr. Job Sikhala 9. Peace and Transitional Justice Commission - Hon. Concilia Chinanzvavana 10. Sports Commission - Mr. Clifford Hlatshwayo 11. Public Service Commission - Hon Tracy Mutinhiri 12. Traditional Leadership - Hon. Misheck Marava 13. National arts Commission - Hon. Agnes Sibanda Mloyi 14. Zimbabwe National Water Authority – Dr. Mandhla Nyathi 15. People Living with Disabilities, Special Needs - Mr. Denias Mudzingwa