Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office
In office 13 February 2009 – 11 September 2013
President
Robert Mugabe
Preceded by
Didymus Mutasa
Succeeded by
Kembo Mohadi
Personal details
Born
(1944-03-30) 30 March 1944 (age 80)
Nationality
Zimbabwean
Political party
ZANU 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]
^"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).
^Zimbabwe: Reports of failed coup in Zimbabwe, 11 June 2007. AllAfrica
^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.
^Dashwood, Hevina Smith. Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transformation, 2000. Page 105.
^Hill, Geoff. The Battle for Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown, 2003. Page 293.
^Great Britain Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A Year Book of the Commonwealth, 1986. Page 426.
^"Mnangagwa dissolves cabinet, Chinamasa appointed Acting Finance Minister". The Zimbabwe Mail. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
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