Edgar Moyo
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| Born | 1962 Kezi |
Edgar Moyo is Zimbabwean politician and educationist. He is the current Minister of Energy and Power Development. He was a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.
Personal Details
Born: 1962 at Kezi Hospital and grew up at Halale, an area close to Njelele Shrine.
School / Education
Primary: at local schools.
Secondary: Tennyson Hlabangana High School in Hope Fountain in 1976 where he did his Form One up to Three in 1978. While in Form Three in February 1978 he abandoned school and crossed the border to Botswana to join military training for the war in Rhodesia.
After the ceasefire he returned home in 1980 and later on returned to Tennyson Hlabangana to complete his Ordinary Level. After completing his O Level, Moyo was employed as a temporary teacher at Homestead School in Kezi.
Tertiary: In 1983 he enrolled at Hillside Teachers College to train as a secondary school teacher where he majored in English and also did music as his second major. He studied for a degree in Education Management with the University of Pretoria.
He attained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with ZOU in 2011.
In 2018, Moyo was a PhD candidate with the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU).
Service/Career
In Botswana’s Selebi-Phikwe he was deployed in the ZAPU education department to teach other recruits who were awaiting to be sent to Zambia for training. He was also deployed in the commissariat department dealing with issues of political education.
After teacher training in 1987 Moyo taught briefly at Mzingwane High School and was moved to Lubhangwe Secondary School in Kezi and since there was a serious shortage of secondary school teachers he was appointed the acting head.
He then headed a number of secondary schools in Kezi such as Whitewater, St Sebastian (Sigangatsha), Ratanyana, Sontala and finally Silozwi where he retired at the end of July 2017.
In Zimta he rose through the ranks, rising to the position of national treasurer in 2008, a position he left upon his retirement last year. During his time in Zimta he was in the National Joint Negotiating Council for the education sector and in 2014 was appointed board member of Zimsec and served until 2017.
Moyo served in the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) as a board member, Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) as its national treasurer while he also sat on the finance committee of the Southern African Teachers Organisation.
Following the 23-24 August 2023 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced his new cabinet on 11 September 2023. The Minister of Energy and Power Development was Edgar Moyo. [1]
Business
Moyo is a cattle rancher in Kezi.
Events
Nomination Court 2023
The ZEC list of candidates for the August 2023 elections for Matabeleland South have been released. [2]
Matobo Constituency.
- Nicholas Abson Dube – ZAPU
- Edgar Moyo – Zanu PF
- Collen Ngwenya – CCC
- Mlungisi Nyathi – Independent
References
- ↑ President Mnangagwa Has Announced The New Cabinet, Pindula, Published: 11 September 2023, Retrieved: 12 September 2023
- ↑ Matabeleland South Full list of 2023 election candidates, Chronicle, Published: 22 June 2023, Retrieved: 29 June 2023
