Jonathan Moyo takes new oath of office

Mugabe shifted Information minister, Jonathan Moyo to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education.

The reshuffle also saw the reassignment of ex-Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi as new Minister of State Security while Nyasha Chikiwinya becomes Minister of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development.

Two weeks ago, Moyo was asked to withdraw from a cabinet meeting so he could retake the ministerial oath following his election as a legislator.

President Robert Mugabe on Monday moved Zimbabwe’s information minister, who he branded a “devil incarnate” last year, to an education department role in his second cabinet reshuffle since December.

Mliswa accused Moyo of abusing the state media to advance his personal goals.

Labour Minister, Priscah Mupfumira is the acting information minister.

Newzimbabwe.com reported Sunday that former Zanu PF chair for Mashonaland West Themba Mliswa told journalists in Bulawayo that Moyo was going to be replaced by his adversary.

Prior to the reshuffle there was a widespread view that Mugabe would seize the opportunity to swear in his wife as minister of women’s affairs to mark her grand entrance to the big league.

But critics say the reshuffle is more of the same as the cabinet is still packed with dead-wood which is clueless in resuscitating the ailing economy. “They have turned state house into a mortuary or grave yard and we have become the ghosts of their failed economic policies…we are doomed to suffer in the hell they have created of this country”.