All Hands-on Deck . . . As Ministers Are Sworn In

President Mnangagwa flanked by Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi poses with new Cabinet ministers after the swearing in ceremony at State House in Harare yesterday. (More pictures on Pages 2 and 5) — Picture: Justin Mutenda

Fungi Kwaramba and Wallace Ruzvidzo

Zimpapers Elections Desk

NEWLY appointed Cabinet ministers have pledged to hit the ground running while their senior colleagues have vowed to consolidate the Second Republic’s transformative works that have been the hallmark of President Mnangagwa’s administration. After Cabinet ministers, Ministers of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, and Deputy Ministers had taken their oath of office at State House in Harare yesterday, President Mnangagwa’s message of hard work and consolidation rang loud in their clarion calls for development. Last week, the President, who presided over the ministers’ swearing-in ceremony, told the world that the consolidation of gains made in his first term and the advancement of Zimbabwe’s dream to become an upper-middle-class economy will characterise his second term. And that message was on every new minister’s lips as they separately spoke to the media, embodying the mantra of the Second Republic, “Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo”. ReadMore