Education
He studied genetics at the University of Lund, became ZANU"s representative in Sweden, and then attended medical school. In Lund he studied with Alexander Chikwanda of the United National Independence Party of Zambia.
He studied genetics at the University of Lund, became ZANU"s representative in Sweden, and then attended medical school. In Lund he studied with Alexander Chikwanda of the United National Independence Party of Zambia.
He has been a minister in the Cabinet since independence in 1980, serving as Minister of Defence from 2001 to 2009 and Minister of State Security from 2009 to 2013. After the war he served as the Minister of National Security, Deputy Secretary of Health Minister for National Security, and Minister for Transport and Welfare. In Rhodesia his school expelled him.
He moved to Czechoslovakia to study on an NDP scholarship with help from Rupiah Banda, the International Secretary of the Zambia Students Union.
Banda established contact between Sekeramayi and the NIB. In June 1964 he moved from Czechoslovakia to Lund, Sweden, on an NIB scholarship. In 1969 Sekeramayi requested assistance from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in his function as Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Students" Union in Europe.
He coordinated Herbert Chitepo and Richard Grove"s visits to Sweden. In 1976 he moved to Mozambique.
In the 1980s he participated in the Gukurahundi massacres.
In 2001 Defense Minister Moven Mahachi died in a car crash and Sekeramayi became the new Defense Minister. In 2005 William Mervin Gumede mentioned Sekeramayi as one of several leading politicians who may succeed Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe because of their support among the military. In the ZANU-Public Finance primaries for the March 2008 parliamentary election, Sekeramayi again sought the party"s nomination as its candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Marondera East, but was defeated.
He was instead nominated as ZANU-Public Finance"s candidate for the Senate from Marondera-Hwedza in Mashonaland East.
When the national unity government was sworn in on 13 February 2009, Sekeramayi became Minister of State Security.
During the Rhodesian Bush War, Sekeramayi was the Zimbabwe African National Union"s representative in Sweden. According to official results he defeated Movement for Democratic Change (Molecular Delivery Corporation) candidate Iain Kay with 19,912 votes against Kay"s 10,066 votes. This victory was questioned on the grounds that the total number of votes was said to exceed voter turnout.