# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simba-makoni
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:06:21.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simba-makoni"
name: "Simba Makoni"
slug: "simba-makoni"
description: "Simbarashe Herbert Stanley Makoni is a Zimbabwean politician and was a candidate for the March 2008 presidential election against incumbent Robert Mugabe. He was Minister of Finance and Economic Development in President Robert Mugabe's cabinet from 2000 to 2002. He faced strong opposition during the Economic Change in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s as his policies contradicted those of the rest of the ZANU-PF party."
tagline: "Zimbabwean politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1950-03-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             0.3353658536585367
  historical:           8.078870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "سیمبا ماکونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Makoni"
    title: "Simba Makoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1379403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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