Ziyambi Ziyambi

Zimbabwean politician

Ziyambi Ziyambi is Zimbabwe's Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs. He has held the post as a member of Zanu-PF in the Emmerson Mnangagwa government since 2018.[1][2]

Ziyambi entered politics in 2013[3] when he was elected as the House of Assembly representative. From September 2013 to September 2015, he served in cabinet in Robert Mugabe's government, as a Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.[4][5][6] Virginia Mabiza was his ministry's permanent secretary.[7]

He grew up on a farm in Zowa in mashonaland west.

Personal life

In the past, Ziyambi served as the treasurer of Caps United football club.[8]

He is a qualified medical laboratory scientist who worked at Harare hospital and parirenyatwa group of hospital laboratory department mainly clinical chemistry laboratory which he headed for long time.[citation needed] He specialized also in Immunology. [citation needed]

He was with PSI from 2001 to 2005. He was the New Start project Manager responsible for testing. He did research on the use of rapid HIV testing and presented a paper at the World AIDS conference in Barcelona Spain in July 2002. He introduced rapid HIV point of care testing at all New Start centres in 2002 resulting in over 90% increase in access to testing.

He enrolled with Unisa 2009 and was awarded the LLB degree in 2013. He enrolled at MSU for the Master of Laws degree in Constitutional and Human Rights law in 2015. Graduated in Nov 2016 being the first group of graduates in Master of Laws degree from a local university. He was a member of Parliamentary Legal Committee 2015 to 2017. He was also Chairman of Portfolio Committee of Justice, Legal and parliamentary affairs 2015 to 2017.

References

  1. ^ Dube, G (1 December 2018). "Mnangagwa Appoints Coup Plotters to Key Ministries in Recycled Mugabe Cabinet". VOA. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Mnangagwa names Zimbabwe's new cabinet". IOL News. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Surprises, New Faces On Zanu-PF Candidates' List". The Herald. Factiva. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  4. ^ "Say cheese! Police in Zimbabwe get trained in art of smiling to put tourists at ease". Associated Press. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Zimbabwe president announces new cabinet". BBC. Factiva. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. ^ Machivenyika, Farirai (14 September 2015). "Cabinet Reshuffled". The Herald.
  7. ^ "Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs - Home". www.justice.gov.zw. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  8. ^ Ncube, L. (2016). "'Bhora Mugedhi versus Bhora musango': The interface between football discourse and Zimbabwean politics". International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 51 (2): 201–218. doi:10.1177/1012690213518316. S2CID 144259834.
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