Novelist Dangarembga joins MDC-M leadership

TalkZimbabwe 19/05/2010

ZIMBABWEAN novelist and filmmaker, Tsitsi Dangarembga, has joined the leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Professor Arthur Mutambara (MDC-M).

She was confirmed as that party's Secretary for Education in a reshuffle announced by that party's secretary general, Welshman Ncube, on Monday.

Dangarembga has been an Executive Member of the party for Harare Province for at least a year.

Dangarembga is the author of the award-winning novel Nervous Conditions - the first novel to be published in English by a black Zimbabwean woman.

She is also a film script writer and director, having directed the film Everyone’s Child and wrote the story for the film Neria.

19 other portfolios were reshuffled.

Ncube said some of the positions were reassignments but others were to fill vacancies created by the deaths of some of the National Executive members, including Secretary for Lands Renson Gasela, who died in a road accident last month, which killed three other party members.

The full llist of Portfolio Secretary appointments

1. Edward T. Mkhosi(Mat South) - Secretary for Lands & Agriculture
2. Sibongile Mgijima (Mash West) - Secretary for Disciplinary Matters
3. Mica Sibindi (Mat South) - Secretary for Defence & Security
4. Wilson Kwenda (Manicaland) - Secretary for Local Government
5. Tariro Shumba (Chitungwiza) - Dep. Sec for Local Government
6. Mary Manyenje (Manicaland) - Secretary for Transport
7. Sam Mlilo (Mid South) - Dep. Sec for Policy & Research
8. Rittah Ndlovu (Bulawayo) - Secretary for Labour
9. Nhlanhla Dube (Mat North) - Dep. Secfor Information & Publicity
10. Constance Chihota (Mash East) - Deputy Director of Elections
11. Birgitta Matengenzara ( Mash Central)- Dep. Sec for International Relations
12. Japhret Khumalo (Bulawayo) - Dep. Sec for External Relations
13. Claudio Marimo (Chitungwiza) - Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs
14. Rabson Mashiri (Harare) - Dep. Sec for Defence & Security
15. Tonderai Gwabada (Mash East) - Deputy Secretary for Organising
16. Charles Sibanda( Mid North) - Dep. Sec for Disciplinary Matters
17. Tsitsi Dangarembga (Harare) - Secretary for Education
18. Joshua Mhambi (Mat South) - Dep. Sec for Economic Affairs
19. Morgan Changamire (Harare) - Secretary for Economic Affairs
20. Nehemiah Zanamwe (Masvingo) - Dep. Sec for Lands & Agriculture