Edna madzongwe biography


Edna madzongwe biography

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    Edna Madzongwe

    Zimbabwean politician

    Edna Madzongwe (born 11 July 1943) is a Zimbabwean politician who was the President of the Senate of the Republic of Zimbabwe from 2005 to 2018.[1]

    Political career

    She was elected as President of the Senate on 30 November 2005, the first female to hold this position.

    In the March 2008 parliamentary election, she was re-elected to the Senate from Chegutu constituency, receiving 23,032 votes against 14,275 for Violet Paneairi Mokoesti of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-Tsvangirai).[2] Following this election, in which ZANU-PF won control of the Senate but not the House of Assembly, Madzongwe was re-elected as President of the Senate on 25 August 2008, receiving 58 votes.

    Gibson Sibanda, whose candidacy was supported by the two MDC factions (MDC-Tsvangirai and MDC-Mutambara), received 28 votes.[3]

    As of December 2008, she was embroiled in a dispute with an elderly white Zimbabwean farmer from Chegutu