Old guard and soldiers — the most notable names in Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new Zimbabwean cabinet
'The honeymoon is over even before it had begun. What a shame. What a missed opportunity'
Harare — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed senior military officials to top posts in his new cabinet, and chose a veteran cabinet minister to head the finance ministry. Mnangagwa was sworn in as president last Friday after 93-year-old Robert Mugabe quit under pressure from the army. He named Patrick Chinamasa as finance minister, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri land minister and Maj-Gen Sibusiso Moyo foreign minister, among other appointments. “The honeymoon is over even before it had begun,” Tendai Biti, leader of the opposition People’s Democratic Party and a former finance minister, said on Twitter. “What a shame. What a missed opportunity.” He also brought back many other faces from the Robert Mugabe era, which could disappoint Zimbabweans who had been hoping for a broad-based government and a break with the past. Chinamasa, a former finance minister in Mugabe’s government, moved to a newly created ministry of cyber security in a reshuffle last month. The cyber po...
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