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Mugabe cabinet: Focus is on the next Minister of Finance
05 Sep 2013 at 12:18hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe is set to name his cabinet this week, a month after he and his Zanu-PF party swept back to power in a landslide victory, a report says.
Focus will be on at least half a dozen key ministries - including Finance, Mines, Indigenisation, Agriculture, Transport, Health and Water - which will drive the government programme.
Finance in particular, is seen as the most critical appointment with indications that Zanu-PF plans to introduce a mineral-backed local currency to work alongside the current multi-currency regime. Mugabe is said to be considering several names for the ministry, including July Moyo, Mnangagwa, Mpofu, Chinamasa and Gono.
The market continues to wait for the president to appoint a new cabinet before parliament opens for its eighth session.
Mugabe is expected to retain the nucleus of his loyal inner circle including Emmerson Mnangagwa, Sydney Sekeramayi, Nicholas Goche, Patrick Chinamasa, Obert Mpofu, Saviour Kasukuwere and Ignatius Chombo.
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo - said to have written the Zanu PF election manifesto - had appeared a dead cert for a cabinet post until his defeat in Tsholotsho North.
Joseph Made, who was Agriculture Minister in the last government, lost in the Zanu PF primaries and also faces an uncertain future.
The two will now be praying for Mugabe to include them in his allocation of five non-constituency MPs to qualify them for inclusion in the new cabinet.
Focus will be on at least half a dozen key ministries - including Finance, Mines, Indigenisation, Agriculture, Transport, Health and Water - which will drive the government programme.
Finance in particular, is seen as the most critical appointment with indications that Zanu-PF plans to introduce a mineral-backed local currency to work alongside the current multi-currency regime. Mugabe is said to be considering several names for the ministry, including July Moyo, Mnangagwa, Mpofu, Chinamasa and Gono.
The market continues to wait for the president to appoint a new cabinet before parliament opens for its eighth session.
Mugabe is expected to retain the nucleus of his loyal inner circle including Emmerson Mnangagwa, Sydney Sekeramayi, Nicholas Goche, Patrick Chinamasa, Obert Mpofu, Saviour Kasukuwere and Ignatius Chombo.
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo - said to have written the Zanu PF election manifesto - had appeared a dead cert for a cabinet post until his defeat in Tsholotsho North.
Joseph Made, who was Agriculture Minister in the last government, lost in the Zanu PF primaries and also faces an uncertain future.
The two will now be praying for Mugabe to include them in his allocation of five non-constituency MPs to qualify them for inclusion in the new cabinet.
Source - Byo24News
