Sikhanyiso Ndlovu

Sikhanyiso Ndlovu

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office = Minister of Information & Publicity
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president = Robert Mugabe
primeminister = Morgan Tsvangirai
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Sikhanyiso Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as Minister of Information & Publicity.cite web|author=|year=2007|url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/75629.html|title=Zimbabwe government still has support of the people: Minister|format=HTML|publisher=EARTH Times|accessdate=2007-12-16] He is also a member of the powerful ZANU-PF politburo.

Political career

After serving as Deputy Minister of Education, Ndlovu was appointed as Minister of Information on February 6 2007. [ [http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=2646&art_id=qw1170799020102B251 "Mugabe retains old guard during shuffle"] , Reuters ("IOL"), February 7, 2007.]

EU-Africa Summit

President Robert 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.cite web|author=|year=2007|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200712140740.html|title=Zimbabwe: Muckrakerndash Giving Colonisers A Good Name|format=HTML|publisher=Zimbabwe Independent|accessdate=2007-12-16]

House of Assembly

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. [ [http://allafrica.com/stories/200802150006.html "Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Names Poll Candidates"] , "The Herald" (allAfrica.com), February 15, 2008.] 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. [ZANU-PF candidates hold rallies [http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=31271&cat=1] (accessed 2/25/2008)] 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. [Fikile Mapala and Torby Chimhashu, [http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/electoral212.17995.html "7 ministers fall as opposition overturns Zanu PF's majority in parliament"] , newzimbabwe.com, April 2, 2008.] In the postponed election held on 27 June 2008 he was defeated by MDC candidate Samuel Sandla Khumalo.

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