Webster Shamu
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The Right Honourable Webster Kotiwani Shamu MP |
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| Minister of Information and Publicity of Zimbabwe | |
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In office 13 February 2009 – 21 December 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Minister of State for Policy Implementation | |
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In office February 2004 – 13 February 2009 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Member of the Zimbabwean Parliament for Chegutu |
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Assumed office 2000 |
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6 June 1945 Southern Rhodesia |
| Political party | Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front |
Webster Kotiwani Shamu is a former Zimbabwean Zanu PF politician & Minister of Publicity and Information. He was previously Minister of State for Policy Implementation, and he is a member of parliament representing Chegutu constituency.
Webster Shamu has also been known as Charles Ndlovu, having changed his name during the civil war (1972–1980), as did many others who used pseudonyms to mask their identities. Shamu, previously a free lance broadcaster under the Smith regime and a well-known presenter to thousands on Radio Harare as the voice behind "The Lyons Maid Hit Parade", escaped from British South Africa Police attention for suspected or alleged crimes, crossed the border into Mozambique where he became again a well known voice to African listeners, broadcasting back from Maputo as the "Voice of Zimbabwe".
Upon Zimababwe gaining freedom, he was appointed as Minister of State for Policy Implementation on 9 February 2004.
Shamu, as Minister of State for Policy Implementation, presented President Robert Mugabe with a present of a nile crocodile, to be part of the museum being built for the president.
Shamu is among a host of individuals not allowed to travel to the United States because the US government feels he has worked to undermine democracy in Zimbabwe.
He has business interests in common with Charles Davy, the father of Chelsy Davy, the former girlfriend of Prince Harry, through Davy's HHK Safaris, which incorporates Shamu's Famba Safaris. HHK Safaris and Shamu were investigated for illegal ivory trading in 2007.
He was the editor of the ZANU-PF weekly news publication, the People's Voice, until he stepped down in 2004 to take up his post as the Minister of Policy Implementation in the President's office.
Shamu controversially won the Chegutu constituency in 2000 parliamentary election. His adversary in the election, Philemon Matibe, who ran on an MDC ticket, was one of the few black commercial farmers to lose a farm after the elections, to a mob purportedly hired by Shamu.
Shamu has appeared at the forefront praising the work of Gideon Gono to revive the economy of the country, although all these efforts appear to have been in vain.
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