Published by the government of Zimbabwe
11 October 2008
Harare — PRESIDENT Mugabe has gazetted ministries allocated to Zanu-PF, MDC-T and MDC in terms of the power-sharing agreement signed by the three parties.
Section (L) of the Functions and Powers of the President outlined in the power-sharing agreement states that the Head of State shall after consultation with the Vice Presidents, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers, allocate ministerial portfolios in accordance with the agreement.
After the assignment of ministries to the parties, President Mugabe is expected to sign the necessary papers for the appointment of the Vice Presidents, Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers.
After their appointments, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC counterpart Arthur Mutambara would have three months to find seats in Parliament.
The President would then receive nominations of ministerial appointees from the two MDC formations for appointment into Cabinet.
Highly placed sources last night said Zanu-PF has already agreed on its line-up of ministers.
In the 31-member Cabinet, Zanu-PF -- which won the popular vote on March 29 -- has 15 ministries, MDC-T 13 while MDC has three.
The principals would assign their members in the portfolios.
No appointments would, however, be made until the facilitator, former South African president Cde Thabo Mbeki, has come to assist on the outstanding ministry -- Finance, which Cde Mugabe provisionally assigned to Zanu-PF, according to the Government Gazette.
The assignment of ministries was done in terms of Paragraph (a) of Subsection (1) of Section 31 D of the Constitution.
The ministries are as follows.
1. Defence
2. Home Affairs
3 . Foreign Affairs
4. Transport
5 . Local Government and Urban Development
6 . Mines and Mining Development
7. Lands, Agriculture and Resettlement
8. Environment, Natural Resources and Tourism
9. Higher and Tertiary Education
10. Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development
11. Justice and Legal Affairs
12 . Media, Information and Publicity
13. Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development
14. Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment
MDC-T
1. Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs
2. Economic Planning and Investment Promotion
3. Energy and Power Development
4. Health and Child Welfare
5. Labour and Social Welfare
6. Water Resources Development and Management
7 . Public Service
8. Sport, Arts and Culture
9. State Enterprise and Parastatals
10 . Science and Technology Development
11. Information Communication Technology
12. Public Works
13 . National Housing and Social Amenities
MDC-M
1. Regional Integration and International Co-operation
2. Education
3 . Industry and Commerce
NB: Finance is still in dispute.
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Please AllAfrica.com The Herald is not a Zanu PF newspaper but a daily that is very independent of the said political party. If you did not know Zanu PF owned newspaper is called The People"s Voice. You should not be party to the MDC propaganda if you want your newspaper to command the requisite respect as a neutral paper. Please do not unilaterally mislead people like that or if you do not have the facts please ask for them
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It has since been revealed that the list of ministries was put up by George Charamba (a.k.a Nathaniel Manheru)of ZANU (PF). The list is not the agreed position but rather the ZANU (PF) negotiating position. Tsvangirai has also unequivocally stated that 'Home Affairs' belongs to MDC and that the deal can break on differences over the allocation of 'Home Affairs'. So if we accept that what was published in the Herald is the correct list we might as well have to accept that the deal is dead as the Herald list shows 'Home Affairs' with ZANU (PF). The MDC -… [Read Full Text]
For your own information the Herald did not publish the list from nowhere, that list was gazetted by the Govt Gazett and so do not blame the Herald. The list in the Govt Gazett is final and that is lawful unless you want to be lawless. ZANU (PF)'s negotiating position is that it wanted al 31 ministries to itself. What this means is that it has compromised immensely to give sellout Tsvangirai 13 ministries. What Mr Boycott has stated is not fact and that is up to the President of the country to decide which ministry goes to which party… [Read Full Text]
You'd think under a GNU that the 4 key ministeries would be shared 2-2. 4-0 is hardly a compromise.
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