The Insider

Silvester Nguni survived the purge by President Robert Mugabe when he dismissed most of the government ministers who had lost in the 2008 elections to make room for the inclusive government.

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Silvester Nguni, the former Cottco boss, said he would turn around the country’s agricultural sector in six months if he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the new government.

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Silvester Nguni was one of the winners in the 2008 elections where big heavyweights in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front where clobbered by Movement for Democratic Change candidates.

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Silvester Nguni was promoted from Deputy Minister of Agriculture to Minister for Economic Development, but the United States embassy would have wanted him to be promoted to Minister of Agriculture.

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Deputy Minister of Agriculture Silvester Nguni was placed on the United States sanctions list only three months after his appointment together with twelve others.

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Silvester Nguni was appointed deputy Minister of Agriculture in President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet after the 2005 elections which his party had won with a two thirds majority.

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Zimbabwe’s business leaders made a small breakthrough when they persuaded the government to devalue the local currency but they had to appease the government by calling it an export support mechanism.

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President Robert Mugabe was behind the offer for a government of national unity made by Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa, Movement for Democratic Change advisor Clive Puzey said.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front offered the Movement for Democratic Change 40 percent of the cabinet posts in government as well as one vice-presidency if it entered into a government of national unity.

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