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Zimbabwe

Queen Bee Tagwirei takes the hive

Mnangagwa's favourite financier gets a cabinet seat, a party post and joint-control of the state's investment vehicles in a single week

President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s promotion of Zimbabwe’s richest oligarch, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, to the new post of Minister of Economic Development and Investment on 8 October marginalises the more technocratic Mthuli Ncube, who remains Finance Minister but with a sharply reduced brief.

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