Sikhanyiso Ndlovu | |
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Minister of Information and Publicity of Zimbabwe | |
In office 6 February 2007 –December 2008 | |
President | Robert Mugabe |
Personal details | |
Born | Southern Rhodesia | 4 May 1937
Died | 15 September 2015 78) Bulawayo | (aged
Political party | Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front |
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu was a Zimbabwean politician who was Minister of Information and Publicity from 2007 to 2008. He was also a member of the ZANU-PF Politburo.
After serving as Deputy Minister of Education,Ndlovu was appointed as Minister of Information by President Robert Mugabe on 6 February 2007. [1]
President Mugabe achieved a diplomatic coup in December 2007 when he attended a European Union-Africa summit despite a visa ban on Zimbabwean government officials,effective since 2001. At the summit,Ndlovu called Chancellor Angela Merkel a "Nazi remnant". Responding to Merkel's criticism of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe,Ndlovu told her to "shut up or ship out," saying Germany needed a head of state like Otto von Bismarck. [2] By the time of the summit he was already placed on United States sanctions and European Union sanctions lists. [3] [4]
Ndlovu was nominated as ZANU-PF's candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Pelandaba-Mpopoma constituency in Bulawayo in the March 2008 parliamentary election. [5] He launched his campaign by slaughtering a beast and giving away bicycles to some of the people who attended his rally at Nkulumane Primary School,an act that his critics described as a gimmick to buy votes. [6] Milford Gwetu,an MP for the Movement for Democratic Change who was running for re-election in the same constituency as Ndlovu,died during the campaign,and as a result the election there was delayed. [7] In the postponed election held on 27 June 2008 he was defeated by MDC candidate Samuel Sandla Khumalo.[ citation needed ]
On 12 December 2008,a day after Mugabe claimed that the Zimbabwean government had defeated a cholera epidemic,Ndlovu accused the United Kingdom of causing the outbreak in a "racist" attack meant to cause genocide against the Zimbabwean people. [8]
The Herald reported on 3 January 2009,that Ndlovu had been dismissed from the Cabinet earlier in the week,along with 11 other ministers,because he no longer held any seat in Parliament. [9]
Ndlovu was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo after he suffered a stroke. He had earlier suffered an Asthma attack. He died early in the morning on 15 September 2015. He was 78 years old. [10]
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