Ecocash CEO, Natalie Jabangwe Appointed To President Mnangagwa’s 24 Member Advisory Council

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed a 24 member advisory council. The news of course brought all sorts of reactions on social media.

There are a lot of interesting individuals who have been appointed to this council but one name that jumped straight at me was Natalie Jabangwe-Morris, the young CEO at Cassava’s Ecocash.

Natalie has much to add. She represents a new crop of business leaders in Zimbabwe that need to be heard and be allowed to contribute to the nation’s progress in as many ways as possible. She has the passion and energy for this kind of thing and thus I am confident on this one name, it’s not a miss.

The Ecocash CEO is a proper techie who has worked in Fintech for a long time including for NCR in the UK. I am convinced she would have made an attempt to make the president reconsider implementing the infamous 2% tax on all electronic transactions.

The rest of the team

The council has some prominent people and here they are:

Busisa Moyo;
Divine Ndhlukula;
Joe Mutizwa;
Zondo Sakala;
Lewis Maxwell Musasike;
Dr Norbert Mugwagwa;
Dr Godfrey Sikipa;
Remigius Makumbe;
Simbarashe Mangwengwende; •
Dr Lindiwe Sibanda;
Aenias Chuma;
Edwin Manikai;
Sam Malaba;
Professor Kuzvinetsa Nzvimbo;
Trevor Ncube;
Janah Ncube;
Dr Shingi Munyeza;
Dr Kenneth Mtata;
Simon Hammond
Richard Wilde;
Kudakwashe Tagwirei;
Prof. Robson Mafoti;
Mfaro Moyo.

Is 24 too much?

Most of the outcry against this council is on the size. Rightly so but…

Whether 24 members is too much or not depends on what the terms of reference of this council are. If this is a pool of individuals from diverse backgrounds that the president has asked to be individually on call whenever he has something to ask then the number doesn’t matter.

If however, this is a council that meets with him and discusses stuff then definitely the soup will be spoiled. We await to hear what this council is all about.

Natalie JabangweSimon HammondKenneth Mtata

Natalie Jabangwe is a Zimbabwean business executive who is the General Manager and Executive Head of mobile money company EcoCash. A computer engineer by profession, Jabangwe became the youngest chief executive to run a mobile money business in Africa. Natalie is also a published business… Read More About Natalie Jabangwe

Simon James Hammond is a Zimbabwean business executive and the current managing director at CABS. Read More About Simon Hammond

Kenneth Mtata is an educator, religious leader in Zimbabwe and current General Secretary of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches. He teaches biblical studies, hermeneutics, biblical languages and contextual theology at undergraduate and post-graduate programs in South Africa and Germany. He’s a leader at the Evangelical… Read More About Kenneth Mtata

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