Zimbabwean politician
Edgar Moyo is a Zimbabwean politician.[1] He is currently serving as the Minister of Energy as well as Power Development of Zimbabwe.[2][3] He also worked as the deputy minister of the primary and secondary education.[1][4] He is a member of ZANU–PF.[1][5]
Background
Early life
Moyo was born in 1962 at Kezi Hospital in Zimbabwe and grew up in Halale, an area near Njelele Shrine.
Secondary school education
He attended Tennyson Hlabangana Secondary School in the Hope Fountain in 1976. It is here where did his form one to Three around 1978. He abandoned the school when he was in form 3 in February of 1978 and crossed the border that connects Botswana and Zimbabwe to join his military training for Rhodesian war.[6]
Soon after the ceasefire, Moyo returned to his home in 1980 and returned to his high school, Tennyson Hlabangana to purse his Ordinary Level Studies. After the completion of his O Level, he was employed at Homestead Secondary School in Kezi as the temporary teacher.[7][6]
Tertiary
In 1983, Moyo studied at Hillside Teachers' College in Zimbabwe to train as the secondary school teacher. He majored in the English subject and did second major in music. He obtained his degree at the University of Pretoria in Education Management. In 2011, he acquired his master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). In 2018, he was enrolled for a PhD candidate with ZOU.[6]
Political career
Moyo was deployed to Botswana’s Selebi-Phikwe in the education department of the ZAPU to teach fellow recruits who were about to be transferred to Zambia for training. In the commissariat department, he was also deployed to dealing with various issues of the political education. After being the teacher training in 1987, he taught at Mzingwane High School before being moved in Kezi to Lubhangwe Secondary School. Due to shortage of secondary teachers, Moyo was appointed as the acting head of the school.[6]
Moyo then was the head of the number of secondary schools such as Whitewater, Ratanyana, Sontala, St Sebastian and Silozwi in Kezi. He retired in July 2017 at Silozwi. In Zimta, Moyo rose through different ranks, up to the position of the national treasurer in 2008, an office he left on his retirement. During his service in Zimta, Moyo served in the National Council of Joint Negotiating for education sector that in 2014 he was appointed as the board member of theZimsec where he served until 2017.[6]
He worked in the Zimbabwe Examinations Council as the board member, as well as at Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) as the national treasurer.[6]
Moyo also served as the finance committee member of the Southern African Teachers' Organisation.[6]
As the result of the 2023 elections, Emmerson Mnangagwa announced his newly sworn cabinet on 11 September 2023 where moyo was the Minister of Energy and Power Development.[1][8][9]
Business
Moyo is reported to own a rancher of cattle in Kezi.
Travels
On 7 March 2024, Minister Moyo attended energy summit in the US.[10]
Events
Nominational Court 2023
The ZEC announced the list of the candidates for its 2023 elections for the Matabeleland South. For Matobo Constituency, Moyo won the etections beating Nicholas Abson Dube of ZAPU, Collen Ngwenya of CCC Party and Mlungisi Nyathi of Independent Party.[5]
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