Grace Kwinjeh to be named Ambassador
As the three Principals to the Power Sharing deal are highly expected to announce an agreement on outstanding issues this week, the MDC has reportedly drawn up a list of Diplomats selected from its structures,to be posted mostly in western countries. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will announce that he is naming Grace Kwinjeh—former MDC Deputy Secretary for International Affairs—to be ambassador to Sweden,a key donor country.
Kwinjeh, once served as the MDC Representative to the EU and after her tenure was appointed Deputy Secretary for International Affairs, She later helped establish the Zimbabwe Diaspora Forum, an organization to advance and promote the interests of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora.
The MDC will reportedly name an Ambassador to the United Kingdom and speculation is rife that its chief representative to Zimbabwe’s former coloniser Hebson Makuvise, will takeover from current ambassador.
Zimbabwe is in dire need of aid from Western donors, who have demanded broad economic and political reforms, including resolving outstanding issues to the power sharing deal.
The government, formed in February by ZANU PF’s President Robert Mugabe and Majority Party Leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has appealed for billions of dollars from the West.
The MDC has since set next Monday as the deadline for the resolution of all outstanding issues, the outstanding issues that remained unresolved were the appointment of provincial governors, permanent secretaries, ambassadors, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono and the Attorney-General, Johannes Tomana.
Posted by Gerald Harper
on May 10, 2009. Filed under Local News,Main Headline.
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