# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oppah-muchinguri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:38.983Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oppah-muchinguri"
name: "Oppah Muchinguri"
slug: "oppah-muchinguri"
description: "Oppah Chamu Zvipange Muchinguri-Kashiri is a Zimbabwean politician who serves as minister of defence in the cabinet of Zimbabwe since 2018. She has also served as Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Women's Affairs. Muchinguri ran as the ZANU-PF candidate for Mutasa Central constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election, but was defeated by Trevor Saruwaka of the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai. According to official results, Muchinguri received 4,764 votes against 9,228 votes for Saruwaka."
tagline: "Zimbabwean politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oppah_Muchinguri.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1958-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.280634666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppah_Muchinguri"
    title: "Oppah Muchinguri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppah_Muchinguri"
    title: "Oppah Muchinguri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppah_Muchinguri-Kashiri"
    title: "Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oppah_Muchinguri"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppah_Muchinguri-Kashiri"
    title: "Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppah_Muchinguri"
    title: "Oppah Muchinguri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7095508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump