Nation mourns Chidawu

H-Metro Reporter

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led Cabinet in observing a moment of silence in honour of Engineer Oliver Chidawu.

Chidawu, who was the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in Harare Metropolitan Province, was 66. He has been described as a hard working cadre and his death was a huge blow to the entire nation.

“We are saddened by the death of Minister and Politburo member, Cde Chidawu. I worked with him when he was young and became a councillor and later on a Mayor of Harare.

“He was a loyal, patriotic and hard-working cadre and it’s a great loss for the province, he would help any of us, whenever we had a problem,” said Zanu PF Deputy National Political Commissar, Cde Omega Hungwe.

Chidawu was a chartered engineer, a major shareholder in Bitumen Construction, chairman of the African Banking Corporation Zimbabwe, non-executive chairman of Manders Group and founder of Kuchi Group of Companies.

He sat on the Bindura Nickel Corporation Ltd board and was a director at Starafrica.