Career
Webster Shamu has also been known as Charles Ndlovu, having changed his name during the civil war (1972–1980), as did many others who used pseudonyms to mask their identities. He was appointed as Minister of State for Policy Implementation on 9 February 2004. Shamu, as Minister of State for Policy Implementation, presented President Robert Mugabe with a present of a nile crocodile, to be part of the museum being built for the president
Shamu is among a host of individuals not allowed to travel to the United States because the United States government feels he has worked to undermine democracy in Zimbabwe.
He has business interests in common with Charles Davy, the father of Chelsy Davy, the former girlfriend of Prince Harry, through Davy"s HHK Safaris, which incorporates Shamu"s Famba Safaris. HHK Safaris and Shamu were investigated for illegal ivory trading in 2007.
He was the editor of the ZANU-Public Finance weekly news publication, the People"s Voice, until he stepped down in 2004 to take up his post as the Minister of Policy Implementation in the President"s office. His adversary in the election, Philemon Matibe, who ran on an Molecular Delivery Corporation ticket, was one of the few black commercial farmers to lose a farm after the elections, to a mob purportedly hired by Shamu.
Shamu has appeared at the forefront praising the work of Gideon Gono to revive the economy of the country, although all these efforts appear to have been in vain.
Shamu was nominated by ZANU-Public Finance as its candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Chegutu East constituency in the March When the ZANU-Public Finance–Molecular Delivery Corporation national unity government was sworn in on 13 February 2009, Shamu became Minister of Information and Publicity. After taking office, he fell into a dispute with Nelson Chamisa, the Minister of Information Communication Technology, regarding which ministry should deal with telecommunications. The Herald reported on 10 April 2009, that President Mugabe had assigned responsibility for telecommunications to the Ministry of Transport, headed by Nicholas Goche.