Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana (born 10 August 1961) is a

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an politician, who has previously served in the cabinet of

.Zimbabwe: MuckrakerSliding Into a Totalitarian State
22 June 2007. AllAfrica

Political career

Mangwana, who had previously served as Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, was appointed as Minister of State for State Enterprises and Parastatals on 25 August 2002. He was subsequently appointed as Minister of Labour and Social Welfare on 9 February 2004
''New Zimbabwe'' (zimbabwesituation.com), 9 February 2004. and later served as acting Minister of Information before being appointed as Minister of Indigenisation and Empowerment on 6 February 2007. He was placed on the

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list from 2003 to 2014. After the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill, which provides for Zimbabweans to hold a majority share in all businesses, was passed in March 2008, Mangwana said that the law did not mean expropriation would take place and that there was "no reason to panic". He noted that existing businesses would "need time to adjust" and said that "engagement and consultation" would take place within a timeframe of perhaps five or ten years. Defending the law, he said that "the revolution is not complete until indigenous Zimbabweans own the means of production". Mangwana was nominated by ZANU-PF as its candidate for the

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seat from Chivi Central constituency, in Masvingo Province, in the March 2008 parliamentary election. He won the seat with 8,228 votes, defeating Chivhanga Henry of the

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, who received 6,471 votes, and Mufudzi Tinashe, an independent who received 452 votes. On 7 January 2009, ''The Herald'' reported that Mangwana was taking over as Acting Minister of Information and Publicity following the dismissal of

Sikhanyiso Ndlovu Sikhanyiso Ndlovu was a Zimbabwean politician who was Minister of Information and Publicity from 2007 to 2008. He was also a member of the ZANU-PF Politburo. Political career After serving as Deputy Minister of Education, Ndlovu was appointed as ...

, who failed to win a seat in the 2008 election."Mugabe appoints acting ministers: report"
Sapa-AFP (''IOL''), 7 January 2009. In April 2009, Mangwana was named to represent ZANU-PF alongside

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of the MDC-T and Edward Mkhosi of MDC-N as co-chairs of a Committee to collect the views of Zimbabweans and to draft a new Constitution for Zimbabwe. The constitution making process was the subject of a documentary, '' Democrats'' by Danish filmmaker Camilla Nielsson, in which Mangwana is featured prominently alongside Mwonzora.

References

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