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Amos Bernard Muvengwa Midzi (July 4, 1952 – June 9, 2015) was a Zimbabwean politician who served in the Cabinet successively as Minister of Energy and Power Development and Minister of Mines and Mining Development from 2002 to 2009. Midzi was appointed as Ambassador to the United States in 1993, before he was a member of the ZANU PF politburo .〔(List of Zimbabwean ambassadors to the United States ), U.S. Department of State website.〕 He ran as the ZANU-PF candidate for Mayor of Harare, the capital, in March 2002, but was defeated by Elias Mudzuri of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Midzi received 56,796 votes against 262,275 votes for Mudzuri.〔("MDC takes Harare and Chitungwiza" ), SADOCC, March 15, 2002.〕 On August 25, 2002, he was appointed as Minister of Energy and Power Development;〔("Zimbabwe's cabinet after the shuffle" ), Sapa-AFP (''IOL''), August 25, 2002.〕〔("ZIMBABWE: New government without Makoni" ), SADOCC, August 25, 2002.〕 subsequently he was appointed as Minister of Mines and Mining Development on February 9, 2004.〔("Mugabe rewards loyalists in new Cabinet" ), ''New Zimbabwe'' (zimbabwesituation.com), February 9, 2004.〕 He has also served as ZANU-PF Chairman for Harare.〔Cris Chinaka, ("'Listen to our problems, Mr Mugabe'" ), Reuters (''IOL''), March 13, 2005.〕 Midzi was nominated as ZANU-PF's candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Epworth, a suburb of Harare, in the March 2008 parliamentary election.〔("Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Names Poll Candidates" ), ''The Herald'' (allAfrica.com), February 15, 2008.〕 He was defeated by the MDC's Jembere Elias, receiving 4,758 votes against 6,220 votes for Elias.〔("Zimbabwe election results 2008" ), Newzimbabwe.com, April 2, 2008.〕 ''The Herald'' reported on January 3, 2009, that Midzi had been dismissed from the Cabinet earlier in the week, along with 11 other ministers, because he no longer held any seat in Parliament.〔("Losing Ministers Axed" ), ''The Herald'' (allAfrica.com), January 3, 2009.〕 Reports of Midzi's death on June 9, 2015, were immediately labelled as suicide. 〔("Ambassador Amos Midzi found dead" ), ''New Zimbabwe'', June 9, 2015.〕 On June 9. 2015 following Midzi's death, it was also reported that foul play was suspected amid reports that his car keys were missing 〔("Fired Midzi dies, foul play suspected" ), ''My Zimbabwe News'', June 9, 2015.〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amos Midzi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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