Daniel Shumba

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Daniel Shumba is a former Zimbabwe Army colonel and businessman, was invited into politics and rose to Masvingo provincial chairman of the ZANU-PF political party.^[2] In 2006, he left the party in a fallout over the unresolved issue of Robert Mugabe succession. Later in that year, he announced the creation of his own party, the United People's Party.^[3] He was denied the chance to run in the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election,^[4] but went on to win an order in the Constitutional Court.

Dr Daniel Shumba sees the current power sharing government as non-inclusive and unrepresentative. "all stakeholders including the church, other political parties, and civic society must form or contribute ao this government". The MDC's alone are unable to get Zanu-PF to agree to true reforms that will lead to peaceful democratic elections. He says,"without a broad based popular constitution Zimbabwe will remain partisan with patronage being the order of the day". This he says, is the course of the current extra-legal and extrajudicial system. In September 2009, Dr Daniel Shumba resigned from opposition politics and rejoined Zanu-PF.

He is married and has two daughters and a son , Natsai, Judith and Simba. He educated in Zimbabwe and UK, holds an MBA and a PhD, he has businesses in IT, Hospitality, Mining and Telecommunications. Dr Daniel Shumba operates between Zimbabwe and South Africa. He is currently working on a pan African broadcasting project. Dr Daniel Shumba is a well known strategist and consults for business, and NGOs in Africa.

Dr Daniel Shumba has invested across many sectors of business and seats on many corporate boards and is a member of many international bodies. Noted as a pundit on regional business issues, he provides his services within the SADC region.

Dr Daniel Shumba is seen as a progressive who has gone past the political agenda, and is focussed at unlocking value as a businessman. "The risk of politics, brings out the opportunistic nature ot people. Let us not confuse democracy, capitalism with an ideological revolution. It is uneducated for one to continue running in a wrong direction, when common sense tell you to review your strategy. Besides, bitterness can not form the bases for an ideolgy, so i have chosen to cut my looses and economically contribute to our great nation. I see myself as wiser today, than i was yesterday."

References

1. ^ Thomson International Management SA
2. ^ Jacob Wilson Chikuhwa (2004). A crisis of governance: Zimbabwe. Algora Publishing. p. 232. http://books.google.com/books?id=bzJMyIUGcQ8C&pg=PA232&dq=Daniel+Shumba&hl=en&ei=MM9ATMTPPIS8sQOx16n2DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Daniel%20Shumba&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
3. ^ Hama Saburi (21 June 2006). "Zimbabwe: Shumba Breaks Silence On Tsholotsho". The Financial Gazette (rereported via AllAfrica.com). http://allafrica.com/stories/200606220046.html. 
4. ^ "Court Decision Threat To Unity Deal". Zimbabwe Independent. 8 January 2009. http://www.theindependent.co.zw/local/21774-court-decision-threat-to-unity-deal-.html. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 

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