South Africa
Details Annual Salary Est Monthly Est USD Equiv
Rands Rands
President 2,040,780.00 170,065.00 21,972.22
Vice President 1,836,745.00 153,062.08 19,775.46
Minister 1,561,223.00 130,101.92 16,809.03
Vice Minister 1,285,700.00 107,141.67 13,842.59
M.P. Minimum 692,085.00 57,673.75 7,451.39
USA
Details Annual Salary Est Monthly Est USD Equiv
Rands Rands
President 3,096,000.00 258,000.00 33,333.33
Vice President 1,537,164.00 128,097.00 16,550.00
Minister 1,330,506.00 110,875.50 14,325.00
31 July 2009
28 July 2009
MDC formations to appoint 5 ambassadors
Zimbabwe’s coalition government will name former opposition officials to head diplomatic missions in five countries, in line with last year’s power-sharing agreement signed by the southern African country’s three main political parties.
A top government official said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party will be asked to provide candidates to serve as ambassadors in Germany, Australia, Sudan and Nigeria, while an official from the MDC formation led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara will be appointed ambassador to Senegal.
“The ambassador designates are going to go for three weeks training on diplomacy, they will start training on August 3 and they will be posted after they complete the training and we expect them to be in their stations by the beginning of September,” said Gorden Moyo, who is Minister of State in Tsvangirai’s office.
The appointments would put to an end one of the outstanding issues from the power-sharing agreement signed September 2008 by President Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara.
Under the agreement appointments to key public posts should be shared among the political parties but Mugabe had refused to dismiss serving ambassadors aligned to his ZANU PF party in order to make way for MDC candidates.
The veteran leader only agreed at a later stage to allow Tsvangirai and Mutambara’s MDC parties to fill up any ambassadorial posts that may fall vacant. The five posts that will be filled up by the two MDC parties had been vacant for some time now.
Zimbabwe’s three principal political leaders remain divided on the issue of central bank governor Gideon Gono and Attorney General Johannes Tomana who the MDCs say Mugabe re-appointed and appointed respectively without consulting them as is required under the power-sharing pact.
Tsvangirai and his MDC have written to South African President Jacob Zuma to convene a summit of the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the appointment of Gono and Tomana as well as other issues pertaining to Zimbabwe’s shaky unity government.
Zuma is current chair of the SADC that facilitated formation of the Harare unity government and together with the African Union is guarantor to Zimbabwe’s power-sharing pact. – ZimOnline
A top government official said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party will be asked to provide candidates to serve as ambassadors in Germany, Australia, Sudan and Nigeria, while an official from the MDC formation led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara will be appointed ambassador to Senegal.
“The ambassador designates are going to go for three weeks training on diplomacy, they will start training on August 3 and they will be posted after they complete the training and we expect them to be in their stations by the beginning of September,” said Gorden Moyo, who is Minister of State in Tsvangirai’s office.
The appointments would put to an end one of the outstanding issues from the power-sharing agreement signed September 2008 by President Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara.
Under the agreement appointments to key public posts should be shared among the political parties but Mugabe had refused to dismiss serving ambassadors aligned to his ZANU PF party in order to make way for MDC candidates.
The veteran leader only agreed at a later stage to allow Tsvangirai and Mutambara’s MDC parties to fill up any ambassadorial posts that may fall vacant. The five posts that will be filled up by the two MDC parties had been vacant for some time now.
Zimbabwe’s three principal political leaders remain divided on the issue of central bank governor Gideon Gono and Attorney General Johannes Tomana who the MDCs say Mugabe re-appointed and appointed respectively without consulting them as is required under the power-sharing pact.
Tsvangirai and his MDC have written to South African President Jacob Zuma to convene a summit of the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the appointment of Gono and Tomana as well as other issues pertaining to Zimbabwe’s shaky unity government.
Zuma is current chair of the SADC that facilitated formation of the Harare unity government and together with the African Union is guarantor to Zimbabwe’s power-sharing pact. – ZimOnline
14 July 2009
What is the way forward for Zim Politics
On one of the posts in this blog I asked a question about Zimbabwe that is it about more politcal parites? Do not get me wrong, I very much believe in multi-political space. My question is, in our current Zim situation (which we all agree is in a mess), what is the way forward?
Do we need more political parties to contest elections or we need an idealogical change in us as Zimbabweans and leaders with a new or renewed idealogy? One of the problems we have is what Dr Simba Makoni once said and I agree with it, he talked about refusing to be put in paddocks as people of Zimbabwe. To some extent, we have allowed to be paddocked as Zimbabweans. We are normally biased in our thinking because of where we come from and what we have been exposed to. Many a times we make dicisions based on: tribe, political affiliation, geographical location, gender, individualism, etc.
If we are to progress, we need to make decisions based on facts, capability, integrity, etc. When we vote for or choose leaders etc, we are normally consiously or unconsiously infuenced by the "paddocks" we are in. We need to outgrow that. That will take maturity on our part. Somebody once said in other parts of the country, because people were fed up with Zanu pf and its failures, even if you were to put a donkey and make it an MDC candidate, it would win the election. Ofcourse Zanu PF should look into themselves for creating such annimosity against themselves. But also on the other hand we should not be "blind" in our decision making. If you look at the calibre of our leaders, (members of both parliament houses & cabinet, etc) it leaves a lot to be desired. There are very good and capable people but some do not deserve to be there. This is found both in Zanu Pf and MDCs. That shows we voted not with discretion but were influenced by "Paddocks".
Let me highlight a few things I have observed in this nation.
-this year as a nation of Zimbabwe we celebrated our 29 years of Independence, but like many other Africa states, we have a lot of things we should have seen achieved but because of many reasons that include: mis management, corruption, dictatorship, autocracy, regionalism, nepotism, lack of church involvement, failed leadership, lack of democracy, neo colonialism, we find our selves having not only without progress but having regressed or grown backwards.
-We are here today confronted with one government with one leader for all the days of our Independent Zimbabwe.
-Most young people listening to me today were born after independence and have known one leader of Zimbabwe all the days of their lives
-South Africa, who is half our age, had her independence in 1994 which is about 15 years ago, have had 4 presidents (including the caretaker – Monthlante) in that period
-Zimbabwe stands, for wrong reasons, with other countries like Cuba, Libya, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Egypt, etc
-We have seen and heard of many bad things that have happened in our country in the 29 years of independence, these include: Gukurahundi atrocities, murambatsina, 2000 farm invasions, 2008 election violence, 2008/9 cholera out break, etc
-We are of course happy because of some positive development so far after the inception of the inclusive government. We all know that this GPA is a compromised arrangement because of our political & democratic immaturity as a nation shown in last year’s elections.
-As a Zimbabweans, we must not be complacent about the current temporal arrangement and fail to do our part of advising and praying for our leaders.
-The Bible says’ “Prayers and supplications be made for all men, kings, etc”
-It is my imploration that as a church, we should more that ever engage ourselves into praying and influencing positive change in our nation.
-It is in the light of that that we gather here to:
1)Pray for our beloved nation, the Republic Of Zimbabwe
2)Celebrate the Independence for our nation which came with the sacrifice of our grannies, parents, sisters and brothers
3)Find a way that we as current and future generation can positively contribute to the development and progress of Zimbabwe
4)Create an awareness in the church especially young people that we have a duty and responsibility to the building, development and future of our Zimbabwe
-It is a painful fact that as young people of Zimbabwe, we are watching passively decisions being made for our nation which will mainly affect us and our children while those making them will be long gone
-It is high time we and Young People in particular stood up for the success and prosperity of Zimbabwe
-We need young people who will rise up in: business, civic, political, local government, church and all other forms or platforms of leadership.
-Young people are or should not be future leaders but current leaders with a greater future
-There has been a proven perception about African leadership and government which has been characterized by among other things: corruption, tyranny, greediness, nepotism, incompetence, failure, tribalism, racism, etc
-We, as young people should rise up, correct that record and prove to the West and rest of the world that we Africans are capable of being a model for good and progressive governance!
Check This!
-We need to put some professionalism to our leadership & government. On the 26th of March 2009, I was trying to contact our government offices;
i)I phone the ministry of Information, asking for the ministry of Regional Integration, the guy does not know there is a ministry like that, then I tell him, the ministry being run by Ms Priscilla, he does not have the number.
ii)I phoned the prime minister’s office, the receptionist says, “Tikakupetsarai?”, I ask for number the ministry of Regional Integration, he gives me the number to the president’s office without telling me whose number it is for.
iii)I phone the number given (president's office), “Makati yenu”, that is the receptionist, I ask for the number to the ministry of Regional Integration, of course the lady was very friendly though talking in Shona, she refers me back to the Prime minister’s office.
iv)I phone the ministry of Small to Medium Enterprises, I ask to speak to the PA to the minister, the guy says, “If you check your time ka, banu barowa pasi, where are you phoning from” (It was around 1641 hours)
v)On another day, I phone our Bulawayo Governor’s office, I had been referred by a cabinet minister to send her documents through that office, the PA says to me, we are not a transport agency, go to swift!
The above experiance and many other things happening and indeed the current mess we are in as a nation cannot change excpet there be a radical national shift in our thinking and the way we see & or do things.
Most of our leaders current and historic have failed us. It may be a painful fact but true that while some leaders may have done or appear to have done well have been found wanting in other arears. Robert Mugabe has failed us, Morgan Tsvangirai has failed us, Arthur Mutambara has falied us, Joshua Nkomo failed us, the list continues.
Do we need more political parties to contest elections or we need an idealogical change in us as Zimbabweans and leaders with a new or renewed idealogy? One of the problems we have is what Dr Simba Makoni once said and I agree with it, he talked about refusing to be put in paddocks as people of Zimbabwe. To some extent, we have allowed to be paddocked as Zimbabweans. We are normally biased in our thinking because of where we come from and what we have been exposed to. Many a times we make dicisions based on: tribe, political affiliation, geographical location, gender, individualism, etc.
If we are to progress, we need to make decisions based on facts, capability, integrity, etc. When we vote for or choose leaders etc, we are normally consiously or unconsiously infuenced by the "paddocks" we are in. We need to outgrow that. That will take maturity on our part. Somebody once said in other parts of the country, because people were fed up with Zanu pf and its failures, even if you were to put a donkey and make it an MDC candidate, it would win the election. Ofcourse Zanu PF should look into themselves for creating such annimosity against themselves. But also on the other hand we should not be "blind" in our decision making. If you look at the calibre of our leaders, (members of both parliament houses & cabinet, etc) it leaves a lot to be desired. There are very good and capable people but some do not deserve to be there. This is found both in Zanu Pf and MDCs. That shows we voted not with discretion but were influenced by "Paddocks".
Let me highlight a few things I have observed in this nation.
-this year as a nation of Zimbabwe we celebrated our 29 years of Independence, but like many other Africa states, we have a lot of things we should have seen achieved but because of many reasons that include: mis management, corruption, dictatorship, autocracy, regionalism, nepotism, lack of church involvement, failed leadership, lack of democracy, neo colonialism, we find our selves having not only without progress but having regressed or grown backwards.
-We are here today confronted with one government with one leader for all the days of our Independent Zimbabwe.
-Most young people listening to me today were born after independence and have known one leader of Zimbabwe all the days of their lives
-South Africa, who is half our age, had her independence in 1994 which is about 15 years ago, have had 4 presidents (including the caretaker – Monthlante) in that period
-Zimbabwe stands, for wrong reasons, with other countries like Cuba, Libya, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Egypt, etc
-We have seen and heard of many bad things that have happened in our country in the 29 years of independence, these include: Gukurahundi atrocities, murambatsina, 2000 farm invasions, 2008 election violence, 2008/9 cholera out break, etc
-We are of course happy because of some positive development so far after the inception of the inclusive government. We all know that this GPA is a compromised arrangement because of our political & democratic immaturity as a nation shown in last year’s elections.
-As a Zimbabweans, we must not be complacent about the current temporal arrangement and fail to do our part of advising and praying for our leaders.
-The Bible says’ “Prayers and supplications be made for all men, kings, etc”
-It is my imploration that as a church, we should more that ever engage ourselves into praying and influencing positive change in our nation.
-It is in the light of that that we gather here to:
1)Pray for our beloved nation, the Republic Of Zimbabwe
2)Celebrate the Independence for our nation which came with the sacrifice of our grannies, parents, sisters and brothers
3)Find a way that we as current and future generation can positively contribute to the development and progress of Zimbabwe
4)Create an awareness in the church especially young people that we have a duty and responsibility to the building, development and future of our Zimbabwe
-It is a painful fact that as young people of Zimbabwe, we are watching passively decisions being made for our nation which will mainly affect us and our children while those making them will be long gone
-It is high time we and Young People in particular stood up for the success and prosperity of Zimbabwe
-We need young people who will rise up in: business, civic, political, local government, church and all other forms or platforms of leadership.
-Young people are or should not be future leaders but current leaders with a greater future
-There has been a proven perception about African leadership and government which has been characterized by among other things: corruption, tyranny, greediness, nepotism, incompetence, failure, tribalism, racism, etc
-We, as young people should rise up, correct that record and prove to the West and rest of the world that we Africans are capable of being a model for good and progressive governance!
Check This!
-We need to put some professionalism to our leadership & government. On the 26th of March 2009, I was trying to contact our government offices;
i)I phone the ministry of Information, asking for the ministry of Regional Integration, the guy does not know there is a ministry like that, then I tell him, the ministry being run by Ms Priscilla, he does not have the number.
ii)I phoned the prime minister’s office, the receptionist says, “Tikakupetsarai?”, I ask for number the ministry of Regional Integration, he gives me the number to the president’s office without telling me whose number it is for.
iii)I phone the number given (president's office), “Makati yenu”, that is the receptionist, I ask for the number to the ministry of Regional Integration, of course the lady was very friendly though talking in Shona, she refers me back to the Prime minister’s office.
iv)I phone the ministry of Small to Medium Enterprises, I ask to speak to the PA to the minister, the guy says, “If you check your time ka, banu barowa pasi, where are you phoning from” (It was around 1641 hours)
v)On another day, I phone our Bulawayo Governor’s office, I had been referred by a cabinet minister to send her documents through that office, the PA says to me, we are not a transport agency, go to swift!
The above experiance and many other things happening and indeed the current mess we are in as a nation cannot change excpet there be a radical national shift in our thinking and the way we see & or do things.
Most of our leaders current and historic have failed us. It may be a painful fact but true that while some leaders may have done or appear to have done well have been found wanting in other arears. Robert Mugabe has failed us, Morgan Tsvangirai has failed us, Arthur Mutambara has falied us, Joshua Nkomo failed us, the list continues.
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