COMMISSIONS WATCH
[8th June 2019]
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission
Shortlisted Candidates to be Publicly Interviewed
on Friday 21st June at Parliament
On 31st January this year the then chairperson and all the eight members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission resigned.
The Constitution gives Parliament’s Committee on Standing Rules and Orders [CSRO] the responsibility of advising the President on the appointment of the chairperson and other members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission [ZACC] [Constitution, sections 254 and 237].
The new chairperson has already been appointed by the President after consultation with CSRO, as required by section 254 of the Constitution. She is Mrs Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo.
The procedure for the appointment of the eight Commission members is different. They must be appointed from a list of at least twelve nominees submitted to the President by the CSRO. The nomination procedure is the same as that laid down by section 237 of the Constitution for the CSRO’s nomination of persons for appointment to the five Chapter 12 Independent Commissions.
The CSRO has already completed the early steps in that process by publishing a public notice advertising the eight positions needing to be filled and inviting the President and members of the public to make nominations of qualified individuals [see Commissions Watch of 15th February [link]]. Nomination documents were received for 133 candidates and the CSRO then published their names and invited the public not only to submit objections to the appointment of any of the candidates, but also to submit suggestions for questions to be put to candidates when they were interviewed [see Commissions Watch of 21st March].
Now the CSRO has published notices announcing that the next step in the process will take place on Friday 21st June at Parliament, when two interviewing teams will conduct public interviews of prospective candidates as required by section 237(1)(c) of the Constitution. The interviews will be conducted in the National Assembly chamber and the Senate chamber and will start at 9 am.
The short list of 38 candidates who will be interviewed has been compiled after what the notices describe as an “exhaustive analysis of the nominated candidates to decipher their suitability for consideration to serve on this Commission”. Their names and the times and venues of their interviews are set out in the following tables from the CSRO notice:
ZIMBABWE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION INTERVIEWS
TEAM A
DATE OF INTERVIEW : FRIDAY 21st JUNE 2019
STARTING TIME : 0900 HOURS
VENUE : NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, PARLIAMENT
NO. | FULL NAME | GENDER | INTERVIEW SLOT |
1 | MR. NOAH MARINGE | MALE | 0900 HOURS |
2 | MR. CHRISTOPHER DUBE-BANDA | MALE | 0920 HOURS |
3 | MS. NOMSA HAZEL NCUBE | FEMALE | 0940 HOURS |
4 | MR. TINOMUDAISHE CHINYOKA | MALE | 1000 HOURS |
5 | MS. FUNGAYI JESSIE MAJOME | FEMALE | 1020 HOURS |
TEA BREAK 1040 – 1100HRS | |||
6 | MRS. CAROLINE-ANN CHIGUMIRA nee MUTEE | FEMALE | 1100 HOURS |
7 | ADVOCATE MICHAEL MAJURU | MALE | 1120 HOURS |
8 | ADVOCATE WILBERT PFUNGWADZASHE MANDINDE | MALE | 1140 HOURS |
9 | MRS. SITHEMBISO ANGELA TOFA (nee MAHLAMVANA) | FEMALE | 1200 HOURS |
10 | MR. TONGAI MATUTU | MALE | 1220 HOURS |
11 | MR. MATTHEW TIACHAONA KUNAKA | MALE | 1240 HOURS |
LUNCH BREAK 1300 – 1400HRS | |||
12 | MR. DAVID CHENAI CHAFANZA | MALE | 1400 HOURS |
13 | MR. ARNOLD MUSHUNJE | MALE | 1420 HOURS |
14 | MR. CALEB MUTSUMBA | MALE | 1440 HOURS |
15 | MR. ZONDI KUMWENDA | MALE | 1500 HOURS |
16 | MR. JAMES ANDREW MUSHORE | MALE | 1520 HOURS |
17 | MR. BASIL MASARA | MALE | 1540 HOURS |
18 | MR. TAWANDA MATOPE | MALE | 1600 HOURS |
19 | MR. THEMBELANI KOLE NCUBE | MALE | 1620 HOURS |
TEAM B
DATE OF INTERVIEW : FRIDAY 21st JUNE 2019
STARTING TIME : 0900 HOURS
VENUE : SENATE CHAMBER, PARLIAMENT
NO. | FULL NAME | GENDER | INTERVIEW SLOT |
1 | MS. THANDIWE MLOBANE | FEMALE | 0900 HOURS |
2 | MR. PAUL. M. MUGONI | MALE | 0920 HOURS |
3 | MR. KENNEDY MTOMBENI | MALE | 0940 HOURS |
4 | MR. JEFFREY TAKAWIRA MAHACHI | MALE | 1000 HOURS |
5 | MR. BRIAN KASHANGURA | MALE | 1020 HOURS |
| TEA BREAK 10:40HRS – 11:00 HRS | ||
6 | MR. FRANK MUCHENGWA | MALE | 1100 HOURS |
7 | REVEREND GIBSON BOTOMANI | MALE | 1120 HOURS |
8 | RETIRED MAJOR MICHAEL DENNIS SANTU | MALE | 1140 HOURS |
9 | MR. JOHN MAKAMURE | MALE | 1200 HOURS |
10 | MRS. TSITSI DHLIWAYO | MALE | 1220 HOURS |
11 | MR. MARK CHIVHEYA SIBANDA | MALE | 1240 HOURS |
| LUNCH BREAK 13:00HRS – 14:00HRS | ||
12 | DR. MABEL NDAKARIPA HUNGWE | FEMALE | 1400 HOURS |
13 | MR. DUMISANI HENDRY ZISENGWE | MALE | 1420 HOURS |
14 | MR. GABRIEL CHAIBVA | MALE | 1440 HOURS |
15 | MR. KUZIVA PHINEAS MURAPA | MALE | 1500 HOURS |
16 | MR. BLESSING CHEBUNDO | MALE | 1520HOURS |
17 | MR. CHARLES. T. M. J. DUBE | MALE | 1540 HOURS |
18 | BISHOP HENRY ZIWERERE | MALE | 1600 HOURS |
19 | MR. PROSPER MUNYEDZA | MALE | 1620 HOURS |
After the interviews the CSRO must prepare a list of at least twelve of the candidates as its nominees for appointment and then submit the list to the President. The President must then appoint eight persons from that list as members of the Commission.