Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Obert Mpofu has appointed former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chairman Mr Godwills Masimirembwa the new CMED (Pvt) Ltd chairperson, taking over from Mr Albert Kamhunga.
Mr Masimirembwa will be deputised by Mr Seymour Mpofu, a former police Assistant Commissioner.
Other board members are Mr Chipiwa Philimon Pasipamire, Mrs Sihle Khabo, Mrs Tinotenda Nhwewde, Mr Phinias Lugube, Engineer Tedious Chinyanga and Mrs Rita Lukukuma.
In September last year President Mugabe told a luncheon held for lawmakers that Government aimed to get to the bottom of allegations that Mr Masimirembwa had demanded and received a US$6 million bribe from Ghanaian investors who wanted to mine diamonds in Marange
However, in an interview to mark his 90th birthday aired on ZBC TV in February, the President cleared Mr Masimirembwa, claiming that the Ghanaians had misled the nation.
Masimirembwa was also engulfed in another storm last year in October after it emerged he bussed youths from Mabvuku to work in a security firm offering services in Chiadzwa during his tenure as the ZMDC boss.
In a suspected case of conflict of interest, Masimirembwa also engaged the same security firm, National Eye — guarding the ZMDC subsidiary’s premises at Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland — to provide security services at his farm in Beatrice.
Meanwhile Minister Mpofu also announced a new National Railways of Zimbabwe board, chaired by former NRZ general manager Engineer Alvord Mabhena.
Eng Mabhena is deputised by Brigadier-General (Retired) David Chiweza, the only member of the previous board. Other board members are Mr Joseph Mashika, Mr Erick Makarimayi, Mrs Nomathemba Ndlovu, Mrs Chrystosoma Kanjoma and Mrs Angeline Karonga.
