via Bulawayo24 NEWS | Mugabe to decide the fate of serving diplomats 15 July 2014
Ambassadors serve four-year terms that can be renewed depending on foreign policy considerations.
Foreign Affairs deputy minister Christopher Mutsvangwa told Parliament last week that diplomats served at the pleasure of Mugabe.
Mutsvangwa was responding to a question in the Senate from Chief Chisunga who had asked him to explain government policy on the deployment of diplomats.
Mutsvangwa said during the era of the inclusive government it presented “peculiar circumstances” which saw diplomats serving longer than the allocated three to four years. – See more at: http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-50598.html#sthash.xmTQlg5J.dpuf
President Robert Mugabe is expected to decide the fate of serving diplomats by the end of the month when their extended term expires.
Mugabe appoints ambassadors to represent him abroad in his capacity as the head of State and government.
Ambassadors serve four-year terms that can be renewed depending on foreign policy considerations.
Foreign Affairs deputy minister Christopher Mutsvangwa told Parliament last week that diplomats served at the pleasure of Mugabe.
Mutsvangwa was responding to a question in the Senate from Chief Chisunga who had asked him to explain government policy on the deployment of diplomats.
Mutsvangwa said during the era of the inclusive government it presented “peculiar circumstances” which saw diplomats serving longer than the allocated three to four years.
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Will that include the ‘ last white man standing ? “
“Zanupf fear me”, I think your comment is tasteless and a blatant disrespect for human rights. I think your stupid comment refers to one of Zimbabwe’s hard working and illustrious Ambassadors, Mr. Stuart Harold Comberbach. For your own information, Mr. Comberbach served his country unstintingly and with distinction and conviction far greater than the majority of his Black counterparts who mostly regarded their ambassadorial posts as vehicles for self aggrandisement. I can tell you that of all Zimbabwe’s past lot of ambassadors, Mr. Comberbach was “the last man standing and working” for his country as the majority of our ambassadors slept on the job. By the way, and as my surname suggests, I am an indiginous Zimbabwean whose brain is not as poluted by rabid racism as yours is!!!!!!!!
Diplomats serve at the pleasure of Mugabe, tHAT SAYS IT ALL.
Zimbabwe is his personal company. So these are the reforms we got .
Nimrod mampara. Your ‘ defence ‘ of this guy you refer to is laughable !!!!!! He served not his country but zanupf and Mugabe as money launderer. All is known. Watch this space, a boogus diplomatic passport doesn’t protect anyone in the future. 97 year old Nazis are still being hunted Dow, bassop joey bimha the rogue