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Webster Shamu

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Webster Shamu is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest, but have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Shamu Webster Kotiwani · Webster Shamu				[sources]
Other name	Shamu, Webster · Webster Kotiwani Shamu				[sources]
Birth date	1945-06-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Southern Rhodesia				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Country	Zimbabwe				[sources]
First name	Webster				[sources]
ID Number	`63-676065N32`				[sources]
Keywords	National government				[sources]
Last name	Shamu				[sources]
Passport number	`AN203141`				[sources]
Second name	Kotiwani				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7978955				[sources]
Position	Governor of Mashonaland West Province (2017-2017) · House of Assembly (member, 2013-) · Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe · Minister of Information and Publicity (2009-2014)				[sources]
Created at	2013-02-28				[sources]
Modified on	2023-11-13				[sources]
Last changed	2024-01-31	Last checked	2024-04-26	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

ZANU-PF Member of the Government involved activities interfering with the freedom of the press in 2009.

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Minister for Media, Information and Publicity; former Minister of State for Policy Implementation (former Minister of State for Policy Implementation in the President's Office).

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Travel ban according to article 4 paragraph 1 does not apply.

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Chegutu East Member of the National Assembly & Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services.

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

Member of the Cabinet of Zimbabwe

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Identifications
Document number	Country	Type	Start date	End date
`63-676065N32`	Zimbabwe	id-card	-	-
`AN203141`	Zimbabwe	passport	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the House of Assembly	2013-09-17	-
Minister of Information and Publicity	2009-02-13	2014-12-21
Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe	2013-09-17	2018-07-29
Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe	2005-04-12	2008-03-28
Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe	2018-08-01	2023-08-22

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)	Ordinance of 19 March 2002 on measures against Zimbabwe (SR 946.209.2), annex 2	2013-03-01	2013-04-19

Data sources

Every Politician59,035

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety (UK Citizens Online Democracy) · non-official source

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,011

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes.

Switzerland · State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons183,221

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata224,805

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ca-sema-zimbabwe-n-a-40 · ca-sema-40-zw-webster-kotiwani-shamu · evpo-349118bc-5fbc-44e0-b5eb-63fcbfcc05d3 · NK-CNFeJxHgiJ4JbdQtvcSwU9 · ofac-9491 · ch-seco-6964

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