{"id":18139,"date":"2020-01-15T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2020-01-15T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:54:29","slug":"president-appoints-new-deputy-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/president-appoints-new-deputy-directors","title":{"rendered":"President appoints new deputy directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Retired Brigadier General Asher Tapfumaneyi and Dr Gatsha Mazithulela as Deputy Directors-General in the President\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda said prior to this appointment brigadier general Tapfumaneyi held several senior positions in government that included Permanent Secretary Ministry of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators Former Political Detainees and Restrictees, Principal Director, ministry of presidential affairs and several positions in the National Army.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetired Brigadier General Tapfumaneyi also served in the president\u2019s department from 2005 to 2009 where he rose through the ranks to the rank of assistant director. He is a holder of several academic qualifications among them, master of science in international relations and Masters of Business Administration. He is a veteran of Zimbabwe\u2019s liberation struggle,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nDr Mazithulela was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the national university of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a renowned scientist who holds a PhD in Genetic engineering and a Master of Business Administration among several qualifications. He is a member of the National Defence University of Zimbabwe Council and is Chairman of the National Authority of the Chemical Weapons Convention (OPCW), Zimbabwe chapter, among his several appointments,\u201d said Dr Sibanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Retired Brigadier General Asher Tapfumaneyi and Dr Gatsha Mazithulela as Deputy Directors-General in the President\u2019s Department. In a statement, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda said prior to this appointment brigadier general Tapfumaneyi held several senior positions in government that included Permanent Secretary Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1257,1124],"class_list":{"0":"post-18139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-national-defence-university","10":"tag-zimbabwe-national-army"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President appoints new deputy directors - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PRESIDENT Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Retired Brigadier General Asher Tapfumaneyi and Dr Gatsha Mazithulela as Deputy Directors-General\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/president-appoints-new-deputy-directors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President appoints new deputy directors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PRESIDENT Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Retired Brigadier General Asher Tapfumaneyi and Dr Gatsha Mazithulela as Deputy Directors-General\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/president-appoints-new-deputy-directors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-15T19:54:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/president-appoints-new-deputy-directors\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/president-appoints-new-deputy-directors\",\"name\":\"President appoints new deputy directors - 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