Government critics accuse Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) party of plunging
Zimbabwe's once brilliant economy into unprecedented recession through
repression and wrong policies such as the chaotic and often violent farm seizures that destroyed the mainstay agricultural sector.
In contrast to Mugabe's team, both Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara appointed admittedly people with
little or no experience in running government but many of them respected technocrats and experts in their fields.
Mutambara settled for his vice president Gibson Sibanda, secretary
general Professor Welshman Ncube, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga and
respected human rights lawyer David Coltart to represent his party in
Cabinet. Tsvangirai juggled with his Cabinet representatives, mainly
professionals in various disciplines.
Among veteran ministers retained by Mugabe were Joseph Made, Patrick
Chinamasa, Didymus Mutasa, Sydney Sekeramayi, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Ignatius Chombo.
Commenting on Mugabe's appointments Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
secretary genera Wellington Chibebe said: "The question which now begs
for an answer from him is: why did he allow this worst cabinet in the
history of Zimbabwe to continue ruining the country (by reappointing them).