{"id":29592,"date":"2020-10-31T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=29592"},"modified":"2020-10-31T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:04:38","slug":"zimondi-officially-hands-over-reins-at-zpcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimondi-officially-hands-over-reins-at-zpcs","title":{"rendered":"Zimondi Officially Hands Over Reins At ZPCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi has officially handed over the reins at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS), to incoming Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu.<\/p>\n<p>Zimhondi was forced to go on three months of pre-retirement leave after 22 years at the helm of the country\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n<p>His successor becomes the substantive head of the service with effect from November 1 (tomorrow). Speaking at the handover-takeover ceremony conducted at the depots\u2019 parade square in Ntabazinduna, Zimhondi said:<\/p>\n<p>Growth and change are inevitable. When the time has come one must go. I have selflessly served my nation. The time has come for me to retire into civilian life.<\/p>\n<p>Incoming Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu pledged to build on his predecessor\u2019s achievements to promote the country\u2019s Vision 2030.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked President Emmerson Mnangagwa for showing \u201cconfidence\u201d in him by appointing him to the post.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, said the changeover of command ceremony was a befitting one to Zimhondi\u2019s who did his \u201cjob well\u201d as ZPCS commander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi has officially handed over the reins at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS), to incoming Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu. Zimhondi was forced to go on three months of pre-retirement leave after 22 years at the helm of the country\u2019s prisons. His successor becomes the substantive head of the service with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[34,1356],"class_list":{"0":"post-29592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-emmerson-mnangagwa","10":"tag-zpcs"},"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>Zimondi Officially Hands Over Reins At ZPCS - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi has officially handed over the reins at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional\" \/>\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\/zimondi-officially-hands-over-reins-at-zpcs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zimondi Officially Hands Over Reins At ZPCS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi has officially handed over the reins at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimondi-officially-hands-over-reins-at-zpcs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-31T19:04:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/Moses-Chihobvu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\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\/zimondi-officially-hands-over-reins-at-zpcs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimondi-officially-hands-over-reins-at-zpcs\",\"name\":\"Zimondi Officially Hands Over Reins At ZPCS - 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