By Farai D Hove | President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba has announced saying the Head Of State chose his cabinet ministers based on the quality of performance. The president is currently under fire for choosing military generals above many other qualifying citizens. This critics said, was a reflection that he was merely appeasing soldiers who assisted him in taking over government.
But Charamba denied as he said everything was based on performance.
“You are going to see a lot of cracking of whip. This inertia that we had developed in Government is going to be broken. We have a propensity to read the politics of faces rather than the execution of value which some faces do have, ” he told the state media.
He continued saying, “it tells that we are moving in a direction where we are ‘projectivising’ development. You will hear less and less of ministries and more and more of cross-ministry collaboration around flagship projects. Our budget and performance as ministries will seize to be democratic.”
He then spoke on Major-General (Retired) Sibusiso Moyo, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri and Professor Murirwa saying they were appointed on merit. “Air Marshal Perrance Shiri has been driving Command Agriculture,” he said.
He continued saying, “it’s not like he is coming from the barracks into the cornfields. He had long left the barracks for the cornfield. His appointment is consistent with the phrase ‘hitting the ground running.
“The Minister for Higher Education, Professor Murirwa, has been a leading brain in applied research. What you are looking at is an enhancement of that ‘vocationalisation’ of Higher and Tertiary Education so that it has a practical bearing as a hatchel for solutions to the industrial question.”
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When it comes to agricultural ministries yes Mr Charamba
Ko Mudha anei?
Appointing General Sibusiso Moyo , Spokesman of the Coup Plotters,as Foreign Affairs Minister is unwise and confirms that ED is just the Civilian Face of Military Junta. The thinking that Soldiers can shoot the Economy into a growth trajectory is false. Soldiers the World Over are bad Managers of the Economy becoz they use Regimentation instead of Economics. It remains to be seen if the Military Junta will shoot the Black Market dead. The only way to kill the Black Market is to over suppĺy or flood the market. To do this u need Forex. Who will lend a Military Junta Loans? With this Military Junta Zimbabwe is doomed. Time will tell.