President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to have issued a directive in which all the decisions made by the cabinet will be made public and communicated to the nation every Wednesday. The President took the decision to promote greater transparency after a cabinet meeting on Monday, ahead of the opening of the Ninth Parliament on Tuesday. The decisions will be made on Wednesdays because cabinet meetings are normally held on Tuesdays. In his opening remarks at yesterday’s cabinet meeting, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said
I expect members of my Government to speak with one voice. Our approach will entail four or five Ministers making presentations during the course of a Cabinet Meeting like this one, until the 100-Day cycle ends. The decision taken by Cabinet will be communicated to the nation every Wednesday, after we have met. Thus, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services. will issue a press statement in the presence of the Chief Secretary, and the implementing Ministers. This will help to entrench transparency, and a culture of responsiveness, as we seek to transform the quality of life of our people.
The president also said that the government would work in 100-day cycles.
Going forward, we should continue to apply the 100-Day cycles as a way of doing business in Government, supported by the monitoring of performance outcomes using the Executive Electronic Dashboard. This means that, at the click of a button, project performance tracking has been made easy across Cabinet Ministries and parastatals. All Ministers, particularly new ones, should embrace the 100-Day Cycle as the norm of doing business in Cabinet.
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