First Cabinet of Emmerson Mnangagwa

The first cabinet of Emmerson Mnangagwa was the interim government of Zimbabwe following the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état until the dissolution of Parliament on 29 July 2018, ahead of the 2018 general election . President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced its formation on 30 November 2017. The newly appointed ministers and their deputies were sworn on 4 December 2017.

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in as president on 24 November 2017 following the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état which led to the resignation of previous president Robert Mugabe.^[1]

Mnangagwa announced the formation of his first cabinet on 30 November 2017.^[2] The initial announcement included appointments of several ministers who were neither in the House of Assembly nor the Senate. The Constitution of Zimbabwe however only permits the President to appoint seven non-Parliamentary members to Cabinet. As such, a second announcement was made on 2 December updating the list so that it would conform with the Constitution. Some of those initially appointed were retained as 'Special Advisors to the President'. All the newly appointed ministers and their deputies were sworn in on 4 December 2017.^[3] Only two Deputy Ministers were appointed in this cabinet.

On 23 December 2017 Mnangagwa appointed Constantino Chiwenga as First Vice-President and Kembo Mohadi as Second Vice-President.^[4] They were sworn in on 28 December 2017. Chiwenga was also appointed Minister responsible for Administration of the Ministry of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, succeeding Mohadi who had been made minister at the start of the month. Mohadi meanwhile was appointed Minister responsible for the National Peace and Reconciliation Portfolio.