Finance and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa has appointed mathematician Senelani Dorothy Hove-Musekwa to chair the nine-member board of the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) for a period of three years. BY OUR STAFF REPORTER
Hove-Musekwa lectures in the Applied Maths department at the National University of Science and Technology. She will be deputised by Patrick Masvikeni.
Other members of the board are Research Council of Zimbabwe executive director Susan Muzite, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe executive Simon Nyarota, Afre CEO Douglas Hoto, Eria Hamandishe, Florence Matarise and Nyaradzo Priscilla Munangati.
The appointments were contained in an Extraordinary Government Gazette published last Monday. Zimstat has been operating without a board following the expiry of the term of office of the Hoto-led board in 2013.
Hove-Musekwa, Muzite and Nyarota were retained from the previous board.
Zimstat is a corporate body that was established through the Census and Statistics Act of 2007.
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It is the main source of official statistics in Zimbabwe and is mandated to play a co-ordination and supervisory role within the National Statistical System.
Zimstat has the authority to certify and designate any statistics produced in the country as official statistics having been satisfied that all the quality requirements of good statistics were met.