Chenhamo "Chen" Chakezha Chimutengwende is the Minister of State for Public and Interactive Affairs for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

. and a longstanding supporter of Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

. According to tiscali.news on 31 March 2008 he lost his parliamentary seat in the recent election.

Chimutengwende lived in exile in London in the 1960s and 70s where he directed the Europe-Africa Research Project from a basement in Gower Street. During his time in London he was also credited with drafting of the controversial document designed to subjugate the Ndebele tribe called The 1979 Grand Plan. He was a member of the editorial board of the Red Mole - a paper closely associated with the International Marxist Group

International Marxist Group

The International Marxist Group was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It and its youth organisation had had around 1,000 members and supporters in the late 1970s...

. A staunch supporter of Mao's China, he resigned from the editorial board when the paper criticised Mao's policies with regard to the Bangladesh Liberation War

Bangladesh Liberation War

The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting East Pakistan and India against West Pakistan. The war resulted in the secession of East Pakistan, which became the independent nation of Bangladesh....

of 1971.