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Bishop Trevor Manhanga

Harare Bureau
THE Zimbabwe Newspapers Group has appointed Bishop Trevor Manhanga to the group’s board. Bishop Manhanga is the presiding bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Zimbabwe and becomes the 11th member in the Dr Charles Utete-led board.The appointment is with effect from February 14 and the board would serve for the next five years.

The other board members are Doreen Sibanda (cultural expert and executive director of the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe), Karen Dube (dean of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lupane State University), Terrence Hussein (corporate lawyer),  George Manyere (banking and corporate finance executive), Felix Moyo (director of Information and Public Relations at the National University of Science and Technology), and Rejoice Nharaunda (a renowned entrepreneur).

Dr Utete took over from Dr Paul Chimedza, who won the Gutu South constituency seat for Zanu-PF in last year’s harmonised elections and was subsequently appointed deputy minister of Health and Child Care.

Only three members, businessman Delma Lupepe, development consultant Dr Nyasha Madzingira and chartered accountant Rungano Mbire were retained from the old board that had three other members — Dr Chimedza, Retired Brigadier-General Epmarcus Kanhanga and Dr Munyaradzi Kereke — resigning to run for political office.

Rtd Brig-Gen Kanhanga subsequently won the Guruve North National Assembly seat on a Zanu-PF ticket and was appointed Tourism and Hospitality Industry deputy minister while Dr Kereke won the Bikita West National Assembly seat as an independent.

Bishop Manhanga, who worked for Barclays Bank between 1981 and 1982, has a Diploma in Bible Studies and Theology and a Master’s Degree in Christian Leadership from Cape Theological Seminary, South Africa.

He has been the presiding bishop for the Pentecostal Assemblies of Zimbabwe since 1993. He once served as the president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, chairman of the Heads of Christian Denominations Zimbabwe, president of the Pentecostals Assemblies of Africa and chairman of the Ecumenical Peace Initiative Zimbabwe.

He also served on the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation board that was dissolved recently and is a board member of the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship Fund. He also chairs the Anti-Domestic Violence Council of Zimbabwe.