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The new Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the President and
Cabinet Ambassador Cain Mathema who has been a senior Government official since 1997 when he was appointed
Deputy Minister of Rural Resources and Water Development is unwell according to the Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces President ED Mnangagwa.
Mathema was later appointed Ambassador to Zambia and Governor for Bulawayo in February 2004, a post he held until September 2013 when he was appointed Minister of State for Provincial Affairs responsible
for Matabeleland North, a post held till 2017 when the second Republic appointed him Minister of Primary and Secondary Education replacing Minister of Public Service Provessor Paul Mavima who had also replaced technocrat educationist Dr Lazarus Dokora.
The new Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Evelyn Ndlovu, replaced
Ambassador Cain Mathema because the latter’s health has knocked him out, President Mnangagwa has said.
Minister Ndlovu is the former Minister of State in Vice President Chiwenga’s Office and is
proportional representation legislator for Matabeleland South Province.
President Mnangagwa said Minister Ndlovu will have to superintend the establishment of
more than 3 000 schools across the country, a figure that Minister Mathema had identified
as an optimum number required for pupils not to walk more than six kilometres to the
next school.
The President made the clarification midweek while addressing villagers in Mutoko where
he was commissioning a food and vegetable processing plant at Tabudirira Vocational
Training Centre in Mutoko, Mashonaland East province.
He was chronicling several Government projects that the Second Republic has embarked
upon to improve the livelihoods of people in line with Vision 2030 of a prosperous upper
middle income economy, anchored on the National Development Strategy1.
“On schools, it is unfortunate that our Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain
Mathema is not feeling well,” said President Mnangagwa.
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