PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved the appointment of 10 provincial
development co-ordinators (PDC) who will assist Ministers of State for
Provincial Affairs with “technical and administrative support” needed to
promote economic growth, create jobs and lift people’s living standards across
the country.
The appointments are effective from 1 September. In a
statement yesterday, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck
Sibanda said the key deliverables associated with growing the economy “lie at
the heart of the national decentralisation and devolution agenda, which is to
be achieved through co-ordinated planning, development and maintenance of
requisite infrastructure, and the effective exploitation” of resource
endowments in the various provinces.
“The PDCs are therefore critical technical actors in the
formulation of provincial growth and transformation strategies that are aligned
to National Development Plans and will enable Zimbabwe to realise its vision to
become an upper middle-income economy and society in 2030.”
Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Judith
Ncube will be assisted by Mr Paul Nyoni, who has extensive experience from both
the public and private sector. He joined Government in 1990 as an
administrative officer in the then Ministry of National Affairs, Employment
Creation and Co-operatives, before joining the then Ministry of Information,
Posts and Telecommunications as research and planning officer in 1993. Mr
Nyoni, who holds a Masters in Social Science (Development Administration) and a
Masters of Business Administration in Public Management, joined the private
sector in 2014 as director of Momentum Insurance Brokers.
In Harare, Mr Tafadzwa Muguti, an Information Technology
and investment specialist, will be assisting Minister Oliver Chidau.
He has extensive experience in the private sector, where he
held various executive posts, including being managing director of VSN Zimbabwe
and CEO of E-Secure Zimbabwe. A holder of a Masters of Business Administration
in Leadership and Sustainability, Mr Muguti has been Zanu-PF director
(Investment and Economic Affairs) since 2019.
Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Larry
Mavima will be aided by Mr Abiot Marongwe, who has been a career civil servant
since 1999 when he joined the Ministry of Local Government. He rose through the
ranks and was promoted as District Administrator in 2004. In 2017, he rose to
Provincial Administrator in the same ministry.
Similarly, in Mashonaland East, another career civil
servant, Mr Tavabarira Kutamahufa, will be assisting Minister Apollonia
Munzverengwi. Before joining the Ministry of Local Government in 2002, he was
previously a teacher.
Minister Monica Mavhunga will ably be assisted by Mr
Timothy Tigere in Mashonaland Central. Also, before his latest appointment as
PDC, he had been chief town planner and director (housing and community
services) for Chinhoyi Municipality.
Mr Josphat Jaji, Dr Jefter Sakupwanya, Ms Sithandiwe Ncube
and Ms Latiso Dhlamini would be assisting Ministers Mary Mliswa-Chikoka
(Mashonaland West), Ezra Chadzamira (Masvingo), Richard Moyo (Matabeleland
North) and Abednico Ncube (Matabeleland South) respectively. Sunday Mail
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