{"id":135372,"date":"2017-12-01T00:25:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=135372"},"modified":"2017-12-01T00:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:25:22","slug":"zimbabwes-new-leader-appoints-cabinet-ruling-party-favoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/01\/zimbabwes-new-leader-appoints-cabinet-ruling-party-favoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s new leader appoints Cabinet; ruling party favoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135375\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12946929734_65774c5571_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135375\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12946929734_65774c5571_k.jpg\" alt=\"Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Cabinet that includes ruling party loyalists as well as figures linked to the military, whose takeover helped oust former leader Robert Mugabe. (Photo: UN Geneva\/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12946929734_65774c5571_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12946929734_65774c5571_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12946929734_65774c5571_k-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12946929734_65774c5571_k-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Cabinet that includes ruling party loyalists as well as figures linked to the military, whose takeover helped oust former leader Robert Mugabe. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/unisgeneva\/12946929734\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/unisgeneva\" target=\"_blank\"> UN Geneva\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HARARE, Zimbabwe\u2014Zimbabwe&#8217;s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Cabinet that includes ruling party loyalists as well as figures linked to the military, whose takeover helped oust former leader Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>No opposition politicians are included.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-member Cabinet announced late Thursday on state-run television includes Maj. Gen. Sibusiso Moyo as foreign minister, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri as agriculture minister and Chris Mutsvangwa, leader of Zimbabwe&#8217;s war veterans, as information minister.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo on Nov. 15 announced the military takeover that put Mugabe under house arrest and set in motion a national clamour leading to the former president&#8217;s resignation after 37 years in power.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe quit Nov. 21 amid impeachment proceedings. The ruling ZANU-PF party replaced him with Mnangagwa, a longtime Mugabe ally who was fired weeks ago as one of the country&#8217;s vice-presidents.<\/p>\n<p>The list of Cabinet picks makes no mention of vice-presidents.<\/p>\n<p>For some Zimbabweans who had hoped that the new leader would make the Cabinet more inclusive, Thursday night&#8217;s announcement was seen as a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Alex Magaisa tweeted a photo of Mugabe and his wife, Grace, laughing with the words \u201cWhen they saw the new Cabinet.\u201d Former finance minister Tendai Biti tweeted: \u201cThe honey moon is over even before it had begun. What a shame. What a missed opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Zimbabwe\u2014Zimbabwe&#8217;s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Cabinet that includes ruling party loyalists as well as figures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,483,17],"tags":[33087,25065],"class_list":["post-135372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","category-news-w","tag-emmerson-mnangagwa","tag-zimbabwe","mauthors-farai-mutsaka","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}