Happyton Mabhuya Bonyongwe is a retired

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who briefly served as Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs in the

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from October to November 2017.

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Prior to this he was the director general of the

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an government intelligence agency, the

Central Intelligence Organisation The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is the national intelligence agency of Zimbabwe. It was conceived as the external intelligence-gathering arm of the British South Africa Police Special Branch in the early 1960s, under the Southern Rh ...

(CIO) from 2002 to 2017.Zimbabwe: Purge Among Military. Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series 44 (8), 17207A–17208C He is a retired Brigadier in the

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. As Director General of the CIO he reported directly to president

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, bypassing the Minister for Security. He was appointed Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on 9 October 2017 and he was sworn in on the 10th of October 2017, thereby vacating his CIO post in line with the constitution. Bonyongwe replaced

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who previously served as head of the intelligence agency. Mnangagwa had held both posts of Minister of Justice and First Vice President at the same time. In a cabinet reshuffle in October 2017, Mnangagwa's ministerial position was given to Bonyongwe. After the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'etat, Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe's 3rd president but did not retain Bonyongwe as Minister of Justice. Since 2008, Bonyongwe is placed on the

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