Former Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman Mariyawanda Nzuwah has died aged 68.
Nzuwah died yesterday morning.
Mariyawanda Nzuwah was independent Zimbabwe’s first black chairman of the PSC, then Civil Service Commission succeeding Malcolm Thompson.
“He distinguished himself by ably superintending over the transformation of our civil service from a colonial bureaucracy serving minority interests to placing it at the service of the majority of our people in a post-independent Zimbabwe,” he said.
“The late Dr Nzuwah will be remembered in the annuls of our bureaucracy as the first indigenous person to chair the PSC making him a longest-serving member of the commission to date.
“He distinguished himself by ably superintending over the transformation of our civil service from a colonial bureaucracy serving minority interests to placing it at the service of the majority of our people in a post-independent Zimbabwe.”
Nzuwah was chairman of PSC from 1992 until 2018 when he was retired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.