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Enigmatic Noises from Zimbabwe🌟 Analysts are puzzling over the reshuffle in one of Zimbabwe’s most important ministries 🌐 On 8 December, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa unexpectedly replaced the country’s top mining official — now former minister Winston Chitando — with his former deputy, Polite Kambamura. 📄 Since the government didn't bothered to explain, people are reading the move from opposite angles: either Chitando was caught in corruption or failing to meet targets, or, on the contrary, he stood in the way of the president’s family members enriching themselves through mines. 🗳 A third version is political — that he did not show enough enthusiasm in supporting the planned extension of Mnangagwa’s presidency to 2030. ⚙️ The most plausible explanation is that Chitando obstructed some murky deals — although this does not necessarily imply the Mnangagwa family/ It may simply have been a desire to indulge "investors" in general. ❓ The corruption/ineffectiveness version seems unlikely, given that his ministry’s policies clearly aimed at local processing of ore (especially lithium) and at raising gold royalties. While the idea that he was removed for insufficient political zeal seems hardly relevant to the role of a mining minister. ➡️ Follow to stay informed - @devilsbelow