Sikhanyiso ndlovu biography sample
Dr Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu has died....
Dr Ndlovu, who was buried at the National Heroes Acre, died on 15 September at Mater Dei hospital after an asthma attack and subsequent stroke.
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu
Zimbabwean politician
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu was a Zimbabwean politician who was Minister of Information and Publicity from 2007 to 2008. He was also a member of the ZANU-PF Politburo.
Political career
After serving as Deputy Minister of Education, Ndlovu was appointed as Minister of Information by PresidentRobert Mugabe on 6 February 2007.[1]
EU-Africa Summit
President Mugabe achieved a diplomatic coup in December 2007 when he attended a European Union-Africa summit despite a visa ban on Zimbabwean government officials, effective since 2001.
At the summit, Ndlovu called ChancellorAngela Merkel a "Nazi remnant". Responding to Merkel's criticism of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, Ndlovu told her to "shut up or ship out," saying Germany needed a head of state like Otto von Bismarck.[2] By the time of the summit he was already placed on United States sanctions and European Union sanctions lists.[3][4]