ster, Ignatius Chombo, who this
week announced the surprise replacement of Makwavarara
with Michael Mahachi at Harare’s Town House, told The
Zimbabwean on Friday that “she remains available to
serve her country and will be doing that in a
different capacity to be known soon”.
Chombo wouldn’t confirm nor deny reports that
Makwavarara was likely to be appointed to a position
of permanent secretary in one of the ministries or
ambassador to one of the countries in Asia.
Government sources say Makwavarara will know by the
end of this month in what capacity she will be serving
the Zanu (PF) regime. “She will not be abandoned after
how she sold out from the MDC and bootlicked Chombo
and the regime,” a source said. “She will be given
another place of comfort soon and has been told to
wait until the end of this month before preparing
where to move next.”
Makwavarara, a former MDC member, who got into council
in 2002 on the opposition party’s ticket, defected to
Zanu (PF) after having been chosen to be the deputy of
ousted elected mayor of Harare, Elias Mudzuri. She was
appointed to head the commission after Mudzuri’s
illegal ouster in 2004 and has had her tenure
repeatedly renewed as the regime continued to ignore
calls by residents as well as court rulings for
elections to be held in the capital city.