Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa’s new cabinet, economy cluster of apolitical appointments
- September 7, 2018
- - 1:21 pm
Summary The formation of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new cabinet September 7 reflects a composition of few securocrats, some party loyalists, and for the economy cluster, appointments made principally for their technocratic qualifications intended to convey domestic and foreign investor confidence. Analysis Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa named a new twenty-member cabinet September 7. Of the appointments, the economy cluster is largely represented by non-political appointments based on technocratic merit, and is intended to convey confidence to domestic and foreign constituencies the Zimbabwean economy is no longer captured for partisan purposes. The formation of Mnangagwa’s cabinet comes ten working days since …
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