Jonathan Moyo
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The Right Honourable Professor Jonathan Moyo MP |
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| Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education | |
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Assumed office 6 July 2017 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Preceded by | Oppah Muchinguri |
| Minister of Information and Publicity | |
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In office September 2013 – 6 July 2015 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Preceded by | Webster Shamu |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Mushohwe |
| Minister of Information and Publicity | |
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In office July 2000 – February 2005 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Succeeded by | Tichaona Jokonya |
| Member of Parliament for Tsholotsho North |
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Assumed office 10 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Roselyn Nkomo |
| Member of Parliament for Tsholotsho |
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In office 31 March 2005 – 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Mtoliki Sibanda |
| Personal details | |
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12 January 1957 Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
| Political party | ZANU-PF |
| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Moyo |
| Children | Tawanda Lungile Nokuthula Zanele (deceased) |
Jonathan Nathaniel Moyo (born 12 January 1957) is a Zimbabwean politician who has served in the government of Zimbabwe as Minister of Higher Education since 2015. He previously served as Minister of Information from 2000 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2015. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe as an independent candidate in 2005 and 2008. He is considered the core architect of AIPPA and POSA.
In 1993 he was program director for the Ford Foundation in Nairobi. He departed under a cloud after allegations that he had embezzled USD $88,000 from the organisation.
In January 1998 he moved to South Africa, to the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) to work on a project entitled The Future of the African Elite sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. WITS later claimed that he had absconded with part of a R100 million research grant for the project. In October 2006 Moeletsi Mbeki, younger brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki, and Witwatersrand University separately applied for an order to have Jonathan Moyo jailed the next time he visits South Africa.
As ZANU-PF spokesman, he described the 2000 election, in which the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a large minority of seats, as a "wake up call" and a "reality check for us".
During his 2000 to 2005 tenure, he crafted and defended, helped by Patrick Chinamasa, the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA) (2001), the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (Commercialisation) Act (2003), the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) (2002), the Public Order and Security Act (2002), and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (Commercialisation) Act (2003). This led to widespread criticism that he was attacking freedom of speech.
When Moyo brought the AIPPA to parliament, the chairman of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Dr Eddison Zvobgo, said, "I can say without equivocation that this Bill, in its original form, was the most calculated and determined assault on our liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, in the 20 years I served as Cabinet minister."
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