Kembo Mohadi

Kembo Muleya Mohadi
Second Vice-President of Zimbabwe
Assumed office
8 September 2023
PresidentEmmerson Mnangagwa
Preceded byHimself
In office
28 December 2017 – 1 March 2021
PresidentEmmerson Mnangagwa
Preceded byPhelekezela Mphoko
Succeeded byHimself
Second Secretary of ZANU–PF
Assumed office
29 October 2022
PresidentEmmerson Mnangagwa
Minister of Defence, Security and War Veterans
In office
30 November 2017 – 29 December 2017
PresidentEmmerson Mnangagwa
DeputyPupurayi Togarepi[1]
Preceded bySydney Sekeramayi
Succeeded byConstantino Chiwenga
6th Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office
In office
6 July 2015 – 27 November 2017
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Preceded bySydney Sekeramayi
Succeeded byPosition merged
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
August 2002 – 6 July 2015
Serving with Giles Mutsekwa (2009–2013)
PresidentRobert Mugabe
Prime MinisterMorgan Tsvangirai
Succeeded byIgnatius Chombo
Personal details
Born (1949-11-15) 15 November 1949 (age 75)
Beitbridge, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Political partyZANU–PF
Spouses
Tambudzani Muleya Budagi
(m. 1981⁠–⁠2017)
Catherine Muleya
(m. 2018)
Children6

Kembo Dugish Campbell Muleya Mohadi (born 15 November 1949) is a Zimbabwean politician and Vice-President of Zimbabwe since 8 September 2023. He previously served in the same role from 28 December 2017 to 1 March 2021, when he resigned.[2][3] He briefly served as the Minister of Defence, Security and War Veterans in 2017. Previously he was Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office from 2015 to 2017 and Minister of Home Affairs from 2002 to 2015.[4]

Mohadi was reappointed as second secretary of ZANU–PF at the party's elective congress on 29 October 2022 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Mnangagwa Appoints Coup Plotters to Key Ministries in Recycled Mugabe Cabinet". Voice of America.
  2. ^ Share, Felex (29 December 2017). "Chiwenga, Mohadi sworn-in as VPs". Nehanda Radio. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. ^ "BREAKING: VP Kembo Mohadi Resigns". NewZimbabwe.com. March 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Parliament of Zimbabwe". Archived from the original on 18 March 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  5. ^ Matiashe, Farai Shawn (25 November 2022). "Zimbabwe: Will ex-deputy president Kembo Mohadi come back in 2023?". The Africa Report. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  6. ^ Ruzvidzo, Wallace (30 October 2022). "President reappoints Cdes Chiwenga, Mohadi VPs". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 15 January 2023.