Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement
In office 30 November 2017 – 27 July 2020
President
Emmerson Mnangagwa
Deputy
Davis Marapira[1]
Commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe
In office 1992 – 7 December 2017
President
Robert Mugabe
Preceded by
Josiah Tungamirai
Succeeded by
Shebba Shumbayaonda (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Bigboy Samson Chikerema
(1955-01-11)11 January 1955 Gweru, Southern Rhodesia
Died
29 July 2020(2020-07-29) (aged 65) Harare, Zimbabwe
Children
1
Alma mater
Royal College of Defence Studies
Awards
Grand Commander of the Zimbabwe Order of Merit
Nickname
Perrance Shiri
Military service
Allegiance
Zimbabwe
Branch/service
Air Force of Zimbabwe
Rank
Air Chief Marshal
Commands
Fifth Brigade Air Force of Zimbabwe
Perrance Shiri (born Bigboy Samson Chikerema; 11 January 1955[2][3] – 29 July 2020)[4] was a retired Zimbabwean air officer and government official who served as Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe from 1 December 2017 until his death on 29 July 2020. He was the commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe and member of the Joint Operations Command which exerts day-by-day control over Zimbabwe's government.[5][6]
Perrance Shiri was a cousin of former President Robert Mugabe.[7] He called himself "Black Jesus",[8] because according to an anonymous claim on the BBC Panorama documentary "The Price of Silence", he "could determine your life like Jesus Christ. He could heal, raise the dead, whatever. So he claimed to be like that because he could say if you live or not."[9]
On 30 November 2017, Shiri was appointed Minister of Agriculture by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. On 18 December he was promoted from Air Marshal to Air Chief Marshal upon retirement.
^"Mnangagwa Appoints Coup Plotters to Key Ministries in Recycled Mugabe Cabinet". Voice of America.
^"Appendix 5 - List of persons closely associated with Robert Mugabe... (30/07/2012)". www.immigration.govt.nz. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
^US Code Collection - Executive Order No. 13288, Cornell Law School. Retrieved on 31 March 2007.
^Mawire, Gift (30 July 2020). "Remembering a liberation war enigma". The Herald.
^Blair, David (22 June 2008). "Zimbabwean generals have 'taken Robert Mugabe's power'". telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2008.
^Air Force of Zimbabwe Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Zimbabwe Ministry of Defence. Retrieved on 31 March 2007.
^"The air marshal, Gaddafi and the big grain buy-up". telegraph.co.uk. 8 August 2002. Retrieved 31 March 2007.
^St. John, Lauren (2007). Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War, and an African Farm. Scribner. p. 234. ISBN 9780743286794.
^"The Price of Silence", BBC Panorama, 10 March 2002
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