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Eight journos eye parliamentary seats
Moses
Matenga, NewsDay
January 04, 2013
http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/01/04/eight-scribes-eye-parly-seats/
A new flair
is likely to characterise this year's anticipated harmonised
elections with a record eight former journalists reportedly eyeing
Parliamentary seats on different political party tickets.
These include
former Zimbabwe Mirror scribe Grace Kwinjeh (MDC-T), ex-journo,
publisher and Makonde MP Kindness Paradza (Zanu PF), ex-ZBC reporter
and Mberengwa East MP Makhosini Hlongwane (Zanu PF), ex-ZBC disc
jockeys Ezra Sibanda and Eric Knight (both MDC-T), ex-ZBC news anchor
Supa Mandiwanzira (Zanu PF) and ex-ZBC announcer James Maridadi
(MDC-T) and former Daily News news editor Luke Tamborinyoka (MDC-T).
Kwinjeh recently
announced her interest to contest the Makoni Central constituency
in Manicaland.
The Brussels-based
MDC-T activist said she will be coming home next month in time for
the campaign period.
"Yes,
I will be coming home after the MDC leadership confirmed me as a
candidate in the 2013 elections. At the moment, I have campaign
teams on the ground in Makoni Central where my dear departed brother
John Nyamande used to be MP," she said.
"I am
overwhelmed by the support from home and the invitations to stand
in constituencies in Harare and Bulawayo. I chose Manicaland and
Makoni as I feel that I would like to work for the development of
my home area," she told NewsDay yesterday.
Mandiwanzira
is believed to be eyeing the Nyanga North seat.
Mandiwanzira
was recently co-opted as treasurer into Zanu PF Manicaland provincial
structures.
British-based
Sibanda and Knight have confirmed setting their eyes on Vungu and
Mbare constituencies respectively, while Paradza is reportedly plotting
a comeback to his Makonde seat with Maridadi vying for Mabvuku constituency
which was represented by Shepherd Madamombe (MDC-T), who is now
late.
Hlongwane would
reportedly seek a second term in Mberengwa East, while Tamborinyoka
is reportedly set to contest in Domboshava.
None of the
three parties has officially unveiled its candidates.
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