Webster Kotiwani Shamu is a Zimbabwean politician and former Minister of Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs who was fired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 21 May 2018.
18 Facts About Webster Shamu
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Webster Shamu previously served as Minister of Information and Publicity, and as Minister of State for Policy Implementation.
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Webster Shamu is a member of parliament representing the Chegutu constituency.
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Webster Shamu has been known as Charles Ndlovu, having changed his name during the civil war, as did many others who used pseudonyms to mask their identities.
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Webster Shamu was appointed as Minister of State for Policy Implementation on 9 February 2004.
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Webster Shamu is among a host of individuals not allowed to travel to the United States because the US government feels he has worked to undermine democracy in Zimbabwe.
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Webster Shamu has business interests in common with Charles Davy, the father of Chelsy Davy, the former girlfriend of Prince Harry, through Davy's HHK Safaris, which incorporates Shamu's Famba Safaris.
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HHK Safaris and Webster Shamu were investigated for illegal ivory trading in 2007.
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Webster Shamu was the editor of the ZANU-PF weekly news publication, the People's Voice, until he stepped down in 2004 to take up his post as the Minister of Policy Implementation in the President's office.
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Webster Shamu controversially won the Chegutu constituency in 2000 parliamentary election.
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Webster Shamu has appeared at the forefront praising the work of Gideon Gono to revive the economy of the country, although all these efforts appear to have been in vain.
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Webster Shamu was placed on the United States sanctions list in 2005.
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Webster Shamu was nominated by ZANU-PF as its candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Chegutu East constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election.
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Webster Shamu was removed from his party position as ZANU-PF national political commissar and lost his central committee membership after being accused of being sympathetic to the then suspended Joice Mujuru and her presumed loyalists.
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Webster Shamu was suspended from the party and removed from his ministerial position.
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Webster Shamu was re-appointed as a central committee member at the December 2016 ZANU-PF annual conference.
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Webster Shamu was then restored to the cabinet in a reshuffle on 9 October 2017, appointed as the Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister.
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Webster Shamu was fired by President Emmerson Mnagangwa on 21 May 2018.