STAFF WRITER
Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Priscah Mupfumira has appointed business executive Rita Likukuma as Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) acting chief executive with effect from this month.
Incumbent CEO Karikoga Kaseke has been off work on medical ground since November.
ZTA chief operating officer Givemore Chidzidzi has been holding fort since then in an acting capacity.
A ZTA board member, Likukuma chairs the Turnall board and is also deputy chairperson on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe board. She is also a non-executive director of PG Industries and a director at Morgan & Company, an international business consortium currently in advanced stages of setting up base in Zimbabwe.
She chaired the National Gallery of Zimbabwe board until January 2013.
In June 2014, she was appointed on the CMED board.
The vastly experienced Likukuma also 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 from the University of Zimbabwe
“Likukuma is charged with driving the vision of the authority in line with that of the nation,” ZTA said in a statement.
