Sydney Sekeramayi

The Right Honourable
Doctor
Sydney Sekeramayi
MP
Minister of Defence
In office
11 September 2013 – 27 November 2017
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded byEmmerson Mnangagwa
Succeeded byKembo Mohadi
In office
2001 – 13 February 2009
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded byMoven Mahachi
Succeeded byEmmerson Mnangagwa
Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office
In office
13 February 2009 – 11 September 2013
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded byDidymus Mutasa
Succeeded byKembo Mohadi
Personal details
Born (1944-03-30) 30 March 1944 (age 80)
NationalityZimbabwean
Political partyZANU PF

Sydney Tigere Sekeramayi (born 30 March 1944[1]) is a Zimbabwean politician who served in the government of Zimbabwe as Minister of Defence between 2013 and 2017. He has been a minister in the Cabinet since independence in 1980, serving as Minister of Defence from 2001 to 2009 and Minister of State Security from 2009 to 2013.

During the Rhodesian Bush War, Sekeramayi was the Zimbabwe African National Union's representative in Sweden. After the war he served as the Minister of National Security, Deputy Secretary of Health Minister for National Security, and Minister for Transport and Welfare.[2][3][4][5][6]

It was announced on 27 November 2017 that the Zimbabwe cabinet had been dissolved by Mugabe's successor Emmerson Mnangagwa.[7]

  1. ^ "Page at Zimbabwean Parliament website". Archived from the original on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).
  2. ^ Zimbabwe: Reports of failed coup in Zimbabwe, 11 June 2007. AllAfrica
  3. ^ Sellström, Tor (2002). Liberation in Southern Africa : regional and Swedish voices : interviews from Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the Frontline and Sweden (2nd ed.). Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. pp. 226–230. ISBN 91-7106-500-8. OCLC 54882811.
  4. ^ Dashwood, Hevina Smith. Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transformation, 2000. Page 105.
  5. ^ Hill, Geoff. The Battle for Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown, 2003. Page 293.
  6. ^ Great Britain Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A Year Book of the Commonwealth, 1986. Page 426.
  7. ^ "Mnangagwa dissolves cabinet, Chinamasa appointed Acting Finance Minister". The Zimbabwe Mail. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2020.