Didymus Mutasa
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The Honourable Didymus Mutasa MP |
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Mutasa (1988)
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| Minister of State for Presidential Affairs | |
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In office 13 February 2009 – 8 December 2014 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Prime Minister | Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Minister of State for National Security, Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement in the President's Office of Zimbabwe | |
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In office April 2005 – 13 February 2009 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Succeeded by | Sydney Sekeramayi |
| Minister of Special Affairs in the President's Office in charge of the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Monopolies Programme | |
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In office February 2004 – April 2005 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Speaker of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe | |
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In office 1980–1990 |
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| President | Canaan Banana |
| Prime Minister | Robert Mugabe |
| Preceded by | John Ruredzo (Southern Rhodesia) |
| Succeeded by | Nolan Makombe |
| Personal details | |
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27 July 1935 Southern Rhodesia |
| Nationality | Zimbabwean |
| Political party | ZANU-PF |
| Alma mater |
Fircroft College University of Birmingham |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Farmer |
Didymus Noel Edwin Mutasa (born 27 July 1935) is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Zimbabwe's Speaker of Parliament from 1980 to 1990. Subsequently he held various ministerial posts working under President Robert Mugabe in the President's Office. He was Minister of State for Presidential Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and also served as ZANU-PF's Secretary for Administration.
Didymus Mutasa was born in 1935 in Rusape, a town close to the Zimbabwe/Mozambique border in Africa. He was the sixth child of a devout Christian couple.
Mutasa was a student of Fircroft College of Adult Education in Birmingham, UK, where he attended the Access to Higher Education Course. He studied at Birmingham University on a British Council scholarship. Mutasa was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Social Science (DSocSc) by the University of Birmingham in 1990.
Before Zimbabwean independence, he was chairman of the Cold Comfort Farm society, a non-racial co-operative community near Salisbury (as it then was). This was located on a farm formerly belonging to Lord Acton. It was promoted by Guy Clutton-Brock and others.(Personal visit in 1971).
Following independence, Mutasa was Zimbabwe's first Speaker of Parliament from 1980 to 1990. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Makoni North and as a member of the ZANU-PF Politburo; he is the party's Secretary for Administration and has also served as its Secretary for External Affairs.
In April 1998, Mutasa, in defending President Robert Mugabe, said that if Mugabe were pressed to step down, then the entire Cabinet and Politburo should step down along with him, because, in Mutasa's view, if Mugabe had truly "stayed for too long and misgoverned", then those who had governed with him, "including those who are calling on Mugabe to step down", must have done so as well. In 2002, he controversially said that it would be a good thing if the population were halved: "We would be better off with only six million people, with our own people who supported the liberation struggle. We don't want all these extra people."
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