RBZ Deputy Chairperson appointed Acting Zim Tourism Authority boss

The Deputy Chairperson of the current Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe board Rita Likukuma has been appointed Acting Chief Executive of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, a communique has revealed.

The appointment made by Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Priscah Mupfumira is in light Dr Karikoga Kaseke being unwell and off work since November 2018. Since then ZTA Chief Operating Officer, Mr Givemore Chidzidzi has been acting in his stead.

Likukuma brings in vast corporate governance experience having served on various Boards. She is also a Non-Executive Director at PG Industries, the current Chairperson at Turnall Holdings Ltd and a Director on the Morgan Company Board, an international business consortium currently in advanced stages of setting up in Zimbabwe.

She was the Chairperson of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe until January 2013. In June 2014, she was appointed a member of the CMED Board of Directors.

Mrs Likukuma served as the Managing Director at the Solar Division at Art Corporation and was a senior executive at Unilever. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Oxford Brookes University and a Bachelor of Science Economics Degree at the University of Zimbabwe. The new ZTA Acting CE also studied for a City and Guilds Diploma in Electrical Installations.