Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has confirmed the appointment of Nobuhle Marilyn Ndiweni by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC Alliance as Senator representing Bulawayo Metropolitan province.
Ndiweni replaces Mildren Dube who died in June this year.
The MDC Alliance had written to ZEC nominating Ndiweni to replace Dube.
ZEC chairperson, Justice Priscilla Chigumba, made the announcement of the appointment of Ndiweni in a Government Gazette published last Friday. Said a notice from Chigumba:
It is hereby notified, in terms of section 39(7) (a) of the Electoral Act Chapter 2:13], that Ndiweni Marilyn Nobuhle, a registered voter of No. 5, Helyn House, 139, Robert Mugabe Road, in Ward 12 of Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, who was nominated by the Movement for Democratic Alliance party to fill the vacancy in the Senate that occurred following the death of Honourable Mildred Season Dube, has been appointed as a Senator with effect from the date of publication of this notice.
Dube was a national executive member of the MDC-T women’s assembly.
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