Zinara Gets New CEO
6 September 2016
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nancy-chamisaTHE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has appointed Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa as the substantive chief executive officer effective September 1, 2016. Eng Masiyiwa-Chamisa will most likely be unveiled this week. She takes over from Engineer Moses Juma who has been acting since 2014 when then CEO Mr Frank Chitukutuku resigned unceremoniously three months before the lapse of his contract.Zinara board chairman Mr Albert Mugabe confirmed to The Herald Business last week that Eng Masiyiwa-Chamisa is the new boss at the key parastatal.
“We have already appointed her. The announcement of her appointment will be made soon.
“We were waiting for the Minister (of Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Jorum Gumbo). He was away in Bulawayo and we expect that by Monday (yesterday) he would be back in Harare,” said Mr Mugabe.
Eng Masiyiwa-Chamisa becomes the second woman to assume a high stakes post at a parastatal under the Ministry of Transport following the appointment of Professor Chipo Dyanda as Air Zimbabwe board chairperson. She joins Zinara at a time when it has been going through a number of changes including the recent sacking of the entire board bar the chairman Mr Mugabe.

Government also recently gazetted Statutory Instrument 91 of 2016 on the Road Motor Transportation (Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations, through which Government has directed the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to “collect, for the benefit of the Road Fund, the tolls on vehicles using any port of entry as prescribed in the First Schedule”.
Zinara has been collecting the fees. Chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development Honourable Dexter Nduna has welcomed the appointment of Eng Masiyiwa-Chamisa, adding that it is in tandem with national aspirations of promoting women in top positions.
“We note that there is a new board and executive at Zinara; on paper they inspire confidence and we will allow them to assume their positions and monitor how they discharge their duties.
“She (Eng Masiyiwa-Chamisa) comes in at the deep end, aware that the road network requires about $20 billion for rehabilitation, reconstruction and maintenance.
Eng Masiyiwa-Chamisa is a holder of an Msc in Mechanical Engineering (CUJAE, Havana, Cuba), and Msc in Manufacturing Systems and
Operations Management (University of Zimbabwe), and an MBA (Eastern & Southern African Management Institute — ESAMI: Arusha, Tanzania).
She is also a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (FZweIE) and director at the Centre for Continuing Engineering Education at the University of Zimbabwe. state media

5 Replies to “Zinara Gets New CEO”

  1. I thought we we debating professional appointments, not political appointments of Ministers. Well if its Ministers, all those people work for Mugabe, not Zims or the economy. If you are clean and competent, you wont survive in his Cabinet.
    At the professional level; virtually all State owned companies have been run by Shonas and they all ran them to the ground. ZESA thrived in the early days of the late ’80s when it was ran by Hlabangana. But since the Shonas took over starting with Sidney Gata, its gone.
    Where is the CSC since Shonas took over from the last whiteman Cross who is now in the MDC-T? Gone. Where is the Dairyboard?
    The best run Municipality has always been Bulawayo and it has never been run by Shonas. All others ran by Shonas have had numerous financial scandals and most are bankrupt. The list is just endless. This is the undeniable truth my man, not tribalism!

  2. The mining industry is in a sorry state because of Minister Mpofu. Mugabe said Zimbabwe lost approximately US$15billion in diamonds. Guess who was the minister a Ndebele guy by the name Mpofu. Imagine what we could have done with 15 billion. Our national debt is said to be $10 billion plus or minus. We could have cleared that and still remain with 5 billion for infrastructure development. So if you want to quantify who did what I think the facts speaks for themselves , though I agree with you 100 % we shonas sometimes we are too greedy and in leadership we do not even know when to leave the stage when the audience are still clapping. We want to go on and on even at corporate level without giving other competent managers to take over . NRZ will never recover unless they reform. The fixed overheads outweigh the revenue. So even if you change managers , they need to do a major operational review and have a strict regime of budgetary control. So my brother Shona Hater – you have a point but the truth is always difficult to swallow .

  3. Who says those Shonas who are appointed are competent? Would Zim be what it is if they were competent? Where is the NRZ today? Were the Shonas who ran it competent? Where is Whange Colliery to today?
    In the late ’90s and early 2000s, over 85% of the coal production at Whange was from the Opencast Mine, which was run by a Mthwakazi Brighton Ncube. Fred Moyo, you current Deputy Minister of Mines had previously fought hard to get rid of Ncube from the Colliery and failed as Ncube was protected by the then Open Cast Manager – Murdoch Eaton a white man – who also eventually left for South, as he also could not stand Shona tribal arrogance and incompetence. It was also the time another Shona and a then ZANU PF zealot, Rugare Gumbo was the Human Resources Manager. Then, Fred Moyo ran the number 3 Colliery and it was a total mess with hardly much production to talk about.
    Using tribal politics, as to be expected of Shonas any way, he eventually became its Managing Director (MD). The company became a disaster. By this time Brighton Ncube had long been hounded out of the Company and is today now doing very well for himslef, his family in South Africa and for South Africans, who couldn’t care less about his tribe. Whange Colliery has had chains of Shona MDs come and go and has been a total disaster. Despite being in Matebeleland, this is a company that has never had even one single MD from Matebeleland province since it was founded by the White Colonialists after the founding of Rhodesia. The only time it was not run by Shonas was when whites ran it with much success and professionalism. Not now.
    Many skilled and competent Mthwakazi people left that country owing to this mwanawekuimusha nonsense. Sifiso Dabengwa left that disaster of a country and its Whange Colliery Company, specifically for SA and ended as the Group CEO of MTN, until recently. Bongani Nqwababa, also left that disaster of a country too – and he is today one of SASOL’s Joint CEOs. The list is endless – Sectional Engineers such as Mlalazi and Mlotshwa all left, because of the Shona tribal nonsense.
    The NRZ did relatively well under MD Alvord Mabhena until the Shonas hounded him out in the 1990s and started their mwanawekumusha, appointing each other. Today its a skeleton of its former self.
    Mabhena was snatched by Botswana Railways, who couldn’t care less for his tribe, but for his competence as had been the case with Brighton Ncube in South Africa. Alvord was brought back to the NRZ by Minister Mpofu as Board Chairman to correct and clean up the Shona mess.
    The moment another Shona Minister Gumbo took up Mpofu’s Transport portfolio in Government, his first task was to gun for the Mthwakazi Mabhena giving some flimsy reasons of restructuring; re-strategising and re-positioning. The consequences of this silly Shona action was that the NRZ lost the funding from South Africa that was almost ready when Mabhena left.
    A Shona flee-market expert was instead appointed in Mabhena’s position. Call that competence – I rest my case. As for Mugabe and the rest of them in governments; the less said about them the better. Shonas bathoo? What a disaster of a people!!

  4. Where one comes from does not matter much as long as they are competent. The Bank of England governor is a Canadian . People are appointed because they are good at those jobs. For the record I think Mnangagwa will be a better and competent president than Mugabe. I am not a Karanga but who cares , all we want is a competent team to run our parastatals. Mr Shona Hater if you are educated and have th balls to take up a responsible position then you are also free to apply even if you are from whatever tribe. It’s a free world and being competiveness is the thing in the 21st century . Get yourself out of the Stone Age mentality.

  5. Minister of Transport is Karanga. She must be Karanga. NRZ now under Karanga. MDC T Presidency and Vice Presidency now under Karangas. Zimbabwe soon to be underMnangagwa Karanga Presidency!!
    What would anyone expect from black people? Nothing new and nothing learnt. They will never learn anything from history. What a cursed race!!!

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