ZBH board cut as Muradzikwa named CEO

ZBH board cut as Muradzikwa named CEO

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• Zanu PF fires newspaper editor

• Power struggle at Information Ministry

• Zimbabwe's information minister Jokonya dies

• Jonathan Moyo: ZBH needs money, but whose money?

• Jokonya makes sweeping changes at ZBH

• MPs finger Herald political editor over sexual abuse

By Staff Reporter

FORMER Ziana editor-in-chief Henry Muradzikwa has been finally named the new Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) chief executive as exclusively revealed here three weeks ago.

The veteran journalist who demanded a new Mercedes before assuming his job will head two ZBH subsidiary companies divided into television and radio.

Muradzikwa is expected to carry through a restructuring exercise announced by former Information Minister Tichaona Jokonya just before his sudden death in June.

The restructuring exercise, thought to be an attempt to reverse former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo's media revolution, will include significant job cuts.

When he announced the restructuring, Jokonya said: "I am not going to speculate on the fall out. My feelings are that we are not going to lose too much people."

Muradzikwa's first act as new boss was to trim the ZBH board members from 25 to 11.

Media analysts see Muradzikwa's appointment as an attempt by the Zanu PF government to get an old hand to manage the succession politics within the party in the key months leading towards President Mugabe's intended exit from power.

ZBH workers fear Muradzikwa will undermine the younger employees and eventually force them out as he seeks to realign the company and promote Mugabe's loyalists.

One ZBH staffer said: "It seems all the young managers are on their way out."
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