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Nicholas Tasunungurwa Goche (born 1 August 1946) is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as Minister of Transport. Previously he was Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare.〔("Zimbabwe Police Seize Opposition Leader's Passport" ), VOA News, 16 June 2007.〕 Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development Biography: Secretary-general, Rhodesian Explosive and Chemical Workers Union, 1968-70; Assistant personnel officer, payroll employees and welfare, Zimbabwe Phosphate Industries Ltd, 1970-74; Personnel officer, ZIMPHOS, 1974-77; Exile, 1977-80; Senior administrative officer, Zimbabwean Embassy, Washington, 1980-83; Under-Secretary, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1984; Ambassador, Romania and Bulgaria, 1984-87; Ambassador, People's Republic of China, 1987-90; Deputy Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1990-91; Assistant, Embassy in New York, 1991-92; Deputy Secretary for Production, ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central, 1994; Deputy Minister, Foreign Affairs, 1995-00; Minister of State, National Security, 2000-05; Ministe of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, 2005-09; Minister of Transport, 2008 to date. Goche was one of the negotiating team behind the unity government and has helped to maintain Mugabe in power. As a former head of the Central Intelligence Organisation, while Minister of State for National Security. Goche was the ZANU-PF candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Shamva North constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election. He won by an overwhelming margin, receiving 10,385 votes against two MDC opponents, Chimombe Godfree and Matibiri Anderson, who respectively received 1,354 and 1,173 votes.〔("Zimbabwe election results 2008" ), Newzimbabwe.com, 31 March 2008.〕 Along with Goche, Chinamasa was one of the negotiators sent by ZANU-PF to the talks between political parties that began in Pretoria on 10 July 2008, following the disputed re-election of President Robert Mugabe.〔Barry Bearak, ("Zimbabwe opponents begin talking about talks" ), ''International Herald Tribune'', 10 July 2008.〕 When the ZANU-PF–MDC national unity government was sworn in on 13 February 2009, Goche was moved to the position of Minister of Transport.〔("Cabinet sworn in amid chaotic scenes" ), Newzimbabwe.com, 13 February 2009.〕 As a result of a dispute between Nelson Chamisa, the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, and Webster Shamu, the Minister of Information and Publicity, regarding which ministry should deal with telecommunications, ''The Herald'' reported on 10 April 2009, that President Mugabe had assigned responsibility for telecommunications to Goche's ministry.〔("Mugabe gives ally control of telecoms" ), Sapa-AFP (''IOL''), 10 April 2009.〕 ==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「Nicholas Goche」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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