Obert Mpofu

Obert Mpofu
Minister of Home Affairs and Culture
In office
30 November 2017 – 11 September 2018
PresidentEmmerson Mnangagwa
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
9 October 2017 – 27 November 2017
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded byIgnatius Chombo
Minister of Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion
In office
11 September 2015 – 9 October 2017
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded byElton Mangoma
Succeeded bySimbarashe Mumbengegwi
Minister of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development
In office
10 September 2013 – 11 September 2015
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded byNicholas Goche
Succeeded byJoram Gumbo
Minister of Mines and Mining Development
In office
13 February 2009 – 10 September 2013
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Prime MinisterMorgan Tsvangirai
Preceded byAmos Midzi
Succeeded byWalter Chidhakwa
Minister of Industry and International Trade
In office
April 2005 – 13 February 2009
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Succeeded byWelshman Ncube
Governor of Matabeleland North
In office
2000–2005
Preceded byWelshman Mabhena
Succeeded bySithokozile Mathuthu
Personal details
Born (1951-10-12) 12 October 1951 (age 73)
Southern Rhodesia
Political partyZANU-PF
ChildrenBukhosie Mkhokheli

Obert Moses Mpofu is a Zimbabwean politician, who served as Minister of Home Affairs from 2017 to September 2018.[1] Previously he was Minister of Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion; Minister of Industry and International Trade; Minister of Mines and Mining Development; and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development. The Cabinet of Zimbabwe was later dissolved on 27 November 2017.[2] He was reappointed as Minister of Home Affairs in Mnangagwa's first cabinet on 30 November 2017.[3] The Culture portfolio was added to his ministry. Mpofu was later removed from the Zimbabwe cabinet in September 2018.[4]

  1. ^ "Cabinet reshuffled • 10 ministers reassigned new portfolios • Eight new appointments, 3 dropped". The Herald. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  2. ^ Staff Reporter (27 November 2017). "Mnangagwa dissolves cabinet, Chinamasa appointed Acting Finance Minister".
  3. ^ "Mnangagwa announces new Cabinet". Zimbabwe Mail. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. ^ Independent, The (14 September 2018). "New cabinet an average team".