Though one of the winners in the 2008 elections, Silvester Nguni seemed to have been brought into the new government as an afterthought because he was not among the 15 ministers that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was allocated under the Global Political Agreement. President Robert Mugabe negotiated for an expanded cabinet of 19
Professor Heneri Dzinotyiwei was appointed to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s cabinet because he was one of the people within the Movement to for Democratic Change that Tsvangirai felt could stand-up to the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front. This was said by political analysts John Makamure and John Makumbe soon after the formation of the.