Mabel Chinomona
Mabel Chinomona | ||
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Speaker Jacob Mudenda | | |
Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe for Mutoko North | ||
In office 3 September 2013 – 2018 | ||
Preceded by | David Chapfika | |
Succeeded by | Rambidzai Nyabote | |
Personal details | ||
Born | 21 January 1958 | |
Political party | ZANU–PF | |
Children | 4 | |
Mabel Memory Chinomona (born 21 January 1958) is a
Early life and education
Chinomona was born on 21 January 1958.[1] She attended Nyamuzuwe High School, where she received her junior certificate, before going on to earn her Ordinary Levels at Murewa High School.[1] She later went on to receive tertiary certificates from Speciss College and Kushinga Phikelela Polytechnic.[1]
She joined the liberation movement in 1975 during the Rhodesian Bush War.[1]
Political career
After Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, Chinomona served as the ZANU–PF Women's League chairman for Mashonaland East Province.[1] She served in that role until 1990, when she became political commissar.[1] She was also involved in the Women's League as commissariat director.[1] She also worked in the Ministry of Local Government for ten years, and served as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.[1]
In February 2016, while serving as provincial head of the Women's League in Mashonaland East, Chinomona was suspended from ZANU–PF in a vote of no confidence by the party's provincial coordinating committee.[2] The reason given was that she had been neglectful in facilitating a planned trip by a group of Women's League members to Harare to meet President Robert Mugabe.[2] However, the real reason was reportedly her association with Emmerson Mnangagwa's Lacoste political faction within the party.[2] The influential party member Sydney Sekeramayi reportedly intervened on her behalf.[2] After the vote of no confidence, she continued to serve in the Women's League, but this time as political commissar.[2] After the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état, she clinched the Women's League's top office as secretary.[2] As secretary, she is also automatically a member of the party's politburo.[2]
In the 2013 general election, Chinomona was elected to Parliament for the Mutoko North constituency.[2] She was sworn in on 3 September 2013, and was elected Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.[3] She was reelected as MP for Mutoko North in 2018, but vacated the seat when she was elected president of the Senate.[4]
Personal life
Chinomona is a widow and has two sons and two daughters.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Mabel Chinomona". Pindula. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Saunyama, Jairos (14 April 2018). "Chinomona's turbulent political career". NewsDay Zimbabwe. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ "Swearing in of the Members of Parliament". The Chronicle. 3 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ Maphosa, Victor. "Zanu-PF retains Mutoko North seat". The Herald. Retrieved 6 May 2020.