Elton Steers Mangoma is the 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...

 Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion

Ministry of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion (Zimbabwe)

The Ministry of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion is a government ministry, responsible for economic planning and investment in Zimbabwe. The incumbent minister is Elton Mangomaand the deputy minister is Samuel Undenge.....

. He is the Member

Member of Parliament

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 of House of Assembly

House of Assembly of Zimbabwe

The House of Assembly of Zimbabwe is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It was the unicameral legislative body from 1989 until late November 2005, when the Senate was re-introduced....

 for Makoni North

Makoni North

Makoni North is a constituency in the Makoni district of Manicaland province....

 (MDC-T).

Career

A senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change party, Mangoma was the party's founding member in 1999. He was one of the country's first few black Chartered Accountants. Before launching his political career, he established himself as an astitute manager with a lot of companies including Deloitte& Touche and Delta Corporation.

Arrest

On March 10, 2011 Mangoma was arrested on charges of corruption, which party leader Tsvangirai concluded were politically-motivated. The arrest was said to be in connection with a fuel deal Mangoma made in December with a little-known South African company.

However it is widely felt that the arrest was a farce and another intimidation ploy from the Mugabe regime.