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Chris Mushohwe
Christopher Chindoti Mushohwe (6 February 1954 – 13 February 2023) was a Zimbabwean politician. He held several posts, including minister of information and broadcasting services. Political career Mushohwe was the ZANU-PF candidate for the Mutare West constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election, but was very narrowly defeated according to the official results. He received 7,577 votes, 20 less than the total number of votes received by Movement for Democratic Change candidate Shuah Mudiwa. Mushohwe was subsequently appointed resident minister and governor of Manicaland Province by President Robert Mugabe on 25 August 2008. In this capacity, he also served as a senator. Mushohwe was a member of the Selous Scouts. He remained in the President's office after Muzorewa because Mugabe wanted someone who knew top secrets of Muzorewa. He was criticised for taking the Kondozi farm which was contributing a lot to Zimbabwe GDP and employment. He was suspected to have caused the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutare West
Mutare West is a constituency represented in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in Manicaland Province. Its current MP since the 2023 general election is Nyasha Marange of ZANU–PF. Electoral history The candidate of the ZANU–PF was declared the winner in the March 2005 parliamentary election, despite irregularities. In the March 2008 parliamentary election, Movement for Democratic Change candidate Shuah Mudiwa very narrowly won the seat, receiving 7,597 votes against 7,577 votes for Chris Mushohwe, the Minister of Transport and Communications, according to official results. Mushowe despite losing the parliamentary seat was elevated to the level of provincial Governor. An independent candidate, Gideon Chamuka, received 536 votes. , newzimbabwe.com. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Zimbabwean Parliamentary Election
General elections were held in Zimbabwe on 29 March 2008 to elect the President and Parliament. Because of Zimbabwe's dire economic situation, the elections were expected to provide incumbent President Robert Mugabe with his toughest electoral challenge to date. Mugabe's opponents were critical of the handling of the electoral process, and the government was accused of planning to rig the election. Human Rights Watch said that the election was likely to be "deeply flawed.""Mugabe accused of election-rigging plan" CNN, 23 March 2008. No official results were announced for more than a month after the first round.MacDonald Dzirutwe [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For Democratic Change – Tsvangirai
The Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) is a centre-left political party and was the main opposition party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 elections. After the split of the original Movement for Democratic Change in 2005, the MDC–T remained the major opposition faction, while a smaller faction, the Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube, or MDC–N, was led by Welshman Ncube. History Foundation The Movement for Democratic Change was founded in 1999 as an opposition party to the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party led by President Robert Mugabe. The MDC was formed from members of the broad coalition of civic society groups and individuals that campaigned for a "No" vote in the 2000 constitutional referendum, in particular the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. The party split following the 2005 Senate election, with the main faction headed by the founder leader Morgan Tsvangirai and the other for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manicaland Province
Manicaland is a province in eastern Zimbabwe. After Harare Province, it is the country's second-most populous province, with a population of 2.037 million, as of the 2022 census. After Harare and Bulawayo provinces, it is Zimbabwe's third-most densely populated province. Manicaland was one of five original provinces established in Southern Rhodesia in the early colonial period. The province endowed with country's major tourist attractions, the likes of Mutarazi Falls, Nyanga National Park and Zimbabwe's top three highest peaks. The province is divided into ten administrative subdivisions of seven rural districts and three towns/councils, including the provincial capital, Mutare. The name Manicaland is derived from one of the province's largest ethnic groups, the Manyika, who originate from the area north of the Manicaland province and as well as western Mozambique, who speak a distinct language called ChiManyika in Shona (one of the dialect of the Shona language). Manicaland is b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s. Mugabe was born to a poor Shona family in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Kutama College and the University of Fort Hare, he worked as a schoolteacher in Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Ghana. Angered by white minority rule of his homeland within the British Empire, Mugabe embraced Marxism and joined African nationalists calling for an independent state controlled by the black majority. After making anti-government comments, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selous Scouts
The Selous Scouts was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe in 1980. It was mainly responsible for infiltrating the black majority population of Rhodesia and collecting intelligence on insurgents so that they could be attacked by regular elements of the security forces. The unit did this by forming small teams that posed as insurgents and usually included captured insurgents. Over time, the Selous Scouts increasingly attacked insurgents themselves and operated in the countries that neighboured Rhodesia. The unit developed a reputation for brutality, and was responsible for attacking and killing civilians. The Selous Scouts were also involved in the Rhodesian chemical and biological weapons program and used poisons and biological agents in some of its operations. The methods used by the unit led to the deaths of large numbers of insurgents but were counter-productive a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Muzorewa
Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 – 8 April 2010), also commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa, was a Zimbabwean bishop and politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979. A United Methodist Church bishop and nationalist leader, he held office for only a few months. Early life Muzorewa was the eldest of a lay preacher's eight children and was educated at the United Methodist School, Old Umtali, near Mutare. He was a school teacher at Mrewa between 1943 and 1947 before becoming a full-time lay preacher at Mtoko between 1947 and 1949. He then studied theology at Old Umtali Biblical College (1949–1952) and was ordained a Minister at Umtali in August 1953. He was a pastor at Chiduku, near Rusape, from 1955 to 1958. Muzorewa attended Central College in Fayette, Missouri, later Central Methodist University. By then he had a wife and three sons, who lived with him in prefab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Khaya-Moyo
Simon Khaya Moyo (1 October 1945 – 14 November 2021) was a Zimbabwean politician and Chairman of ZANU-PF at the time of his death. He was the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to South Africa from 2007 to 2011. He was appointed Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Minister in October 2017, taking over from Christopher Mushohwe. However, he was later removed from the Zimbabwe Cabinet in September 2018. Khaya-Moyo was placed on the United States sanctions list in 2003. He died on 14 November 2021 due to cancer at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo. Early life Simon Khaya-Moyo was born on 1 October 1945 in the Bukalanga Sanzukwi area of Bulilima in Matabeleland South Province. He did his secondary education studies at Fletcher High School in Gweru and left in 1965. From 1966 to 1967, he served as a research assistant at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmerson Mnangagwa
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (, American English, US: (); born 15 September 1942) is a Zimbabwean politician who has served as President of Zimbabwe since 24 November 2017. A member of ZANU–PF and a longtime ally of former President Robert Mugabe, he held a series of cabinet portfolios and was Mugabe's Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Vice President until November 2017, when he was dismissed before coming to power in 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état, a coup d'état. He secured his first full term as president in the disputed 2018 Zimbabwean general election, 2018 general election. Mnangagwa was born in 1942 in Zvishavane, Shabani, Southern Rhodesia, to a large Shona people, Shona family. His parents were farmers, and in the 1950s he and his family were forced to move to Northern Rhodesia because of his father's political activism. There he became active in anti-colonial politics, and in 1963 he joined the newly formed Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the militant wing of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Sanctions
After the failure of the Embargo Act of 1807, the federal government of the United States took little interest in imposing embargoes and economic sanctions against foreign countries until the 20th century. United States trade policy was entirely a matter of economic policy. After World War I, interest revived. President Woodrow Wilson promoted such sanctions as a method for the League of Nations to enforce peace. However, he failed to bring the United States into the League and the US did not join the 1935 League sanctions against Italy. However, in 1940, the United States participated in the ABCD line against Japan, and the Helium Act of 1925 forbade the export of that strategic commodity. Interest in trade as a tool of foreign policy expanded during the Cold War era, and many economic sanctions were applied. The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, was only in effect for five years. Later, sanctions were additionally aimed against countries which the U.S. government listed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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