Auxillia Mnangagwa

The Right Honourable
Auxillia Mnangagwa
MP
Auxillia Mnangagwa in November 2017
First Lady of Zimbabwe
Assumed office
24 November 2017
President Emmerson Mnangagwa
Preceded by Grace Mugabe
Member of Parliament for
Chirumhanzu Zibagwe
Assumed office
28 March 2015
Preceded by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Personal details
Born (1963-03-25) 25 March 1963[1]
Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central, Southern Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)
Political party ZANU-PF
Spouse(s) Emmerson Mnangagwa
Children 3

Auxillia Mnangagwa (born 25 March 1963) is a Zimbabwean politician and has served as the First Lady of Zimbabwe since November 2017, as the wife of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.[2][3] After spending over ten years at the Ministry of Manpower and Development, she joined the Prime Minister's office in 1992. She was elected as a Zanu-PF Member of Parliament in 2015, serving for the same constituency as her husband after he became Vice-President under Robert Mugabe.[4][5]

Biography

Born on 25 March 1963 in Mazowe District in Mashonaland Central, Auxillia was the second child in a family of five. She was brought up on a farm[6] in Chiweshe where she attended primary and secondary school. Her parents divorced when she was in Grade 3.[7] After completing a secretarial course at Silveira House, Chishawasha, in 1981, she worked for the Ministry of Manpower and Development under Edgar Tekere. She entered politics in 1982, eventually rising to the politburo.[7] From 1992, she was assigned to the Prime Minister's office, joining the Central Intelligence Organisation in 1997.[3] Some reports maintain that from 1992, acting as a high-level security officer at the Sheraton Hotel, she provided information to Mugabe on Emmerson Mnangagwa who was then the de facto head of the CIO. She denies these assertions.[8][7]

In 1997, she began studying in the Environment and Tourism department at the University of Zimbabwe. She left for Switzerland two years later, graduating in Hotel and Tourism Administration in 2001. On her return to Zimbabwe, she joined the finance department of Zanu-PF in Kwekwe. Following an unsuccessful attempt to stand for the ZANU-PF in her native Mazowe Central, she joined the party's Central Committee in 2009. On behalf of Zanu-PF, she set up a number of women's banks in at Silobela, Zhombe, Kwekwe and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province.[3][9]

Following her husband's appointment as Vice President, she stood as the member of parliament for Chirumhanzu-Zibagwe. After the withdrawal of the two other candidates, she went on the win the parliamentary primary by-election in 2015.[2]

Personal life

It is believed she married Emmerson Mnangagwa following the death of his previous wife Jayne who was the sister of Josiah Tongogara at which point, she became his third wife.[1] They have three children together: Emmerson Jr., Sean and Collin.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Who is Auxillia Mnangagwa?e". 12 June 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Auxillia Mnangagwa, a woman of honour". The Herald. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 Jena, Daphne (12 June 2015). "Who is Auxillia Mnangagwa?". HerZimbabwe. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Van Wyk, Andrea (27 November 2017). "Five things to know about Zim's new first lady". eNCA.com. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Sefularo, Masechaba (25 November 2017). "Meet Zimbabwe's new first lady Auxilia Mnangagwa". EWN Eyewitness News. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Mahr, Krista (24 November 2017). "Auxillia Mnangagwa: Zimbabwe's little-known new first lady with big shoes to fill". The Telegraph. Johannesburg. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 Mhlanga, Blessed (13 September 2015). "A peek into Auxillia Mnangagwa's life". The Standard. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Bolder, Peter (31 January 2015). "Auxillia Mnangagwa a CIO Mole Deployed by Mugabe to Monitor Her Husband". Now Daily.
  9. ↑ Chadenga, Stephen (23 June 2014). "Mnangagwa's wife targets prison officers". Southern Eye. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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