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Joel Matiza

Politician

Joel Matiza is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Biggie J. Matiza · Joel Matiza				[sources]
Other name	Biggie J. Matiza · Biggie Joel Matiza · Joel Biggie Matiza · Matiza, Biggie J.				[sources]
Birth date	1960-08-17				[sources]
Place of birth	Murewa				[sources]
Death date	2021-01-22				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Country	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Citizenship	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Joel				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q105071475				[sources]
Position	Governor of Mashonaland East Province (2014-2015) · House of Assembly (member, 2013-) · Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe · Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development (2018-2021) · member of parliament (1999-2021)				[sources]
Education	Ahmadu Bello University · Chinhoyi University of Technology · Federal Government College Kano · University of Derby				[sources]
Last change	2025-08-30	Last processed	2025-09-08	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Murehwa South Member of National Assembly. Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works & National Housing

— Every Politician non-official source, 2021-09-18

Zimbabwean politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-03-15

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the House of Assembly	2013-09-17	-
Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development	2018-09-25

Data sources

Every Politician58,336

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Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,173

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Wikidata · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,394

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,107

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ca-sema-zimbabwe-n-a-54 · NK-8zrsaRzn5jRo53HMsQUt6s · NK-JyggJQxZjjsZjWehsVphRd · ca-sema-54-zw-joel-biggie-matiza · evpo-a2cc183b-55af-404f-86fd-660fdce19138 · ch-seco-6559 · us-cia-zimbabwe-joel-biggie-matiza-min-of-transport-infrastructural-development · Q105071475 · ofac-9447

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