Zimbabwe's government, mapped as one graph

The Executive occupies one sector, with four government layers and an outer ring showing regulated organisations:

1. Presidency — President and Vice-Presidents.
2. Cabinet — ministerial offices in a shared Cabinet band.
3. Ministries and executive offices — aligned with their leadership.
4. Departments, agencies and regulators — aligned with their ministry or policy portfolio.
5. Regulated organisations — businesses, services and membership bodies linked to their regulator.

The President and Vice-Presidents are also Cabinet members. Select the Cabinet band to see its membership. Position groups related bodies; connections explain leadership, membership and oversight.

Explore regulation: click POTRAZ, BAZ, CIPZ / Registrar of Copyright, ZERA, RBZ, IPEC or SECZim in ring 4 to reveal the organisations they regulate. The outer ring has a separate colour and a small gap: regulation does not imply government ownership. Most outer nodes represent groups, ready to be expanded with verified organisations.

Broadcasting and music rights: select a radio or TV group to see BAZ’s broadcasting-service regulation and ZIMURA’s separate role licensing music it represents. The gold music-licence line describes that role where the repertoire is used; it does not confirm a current licence for every broadcaster.

Cabinet–MP connections: select a layer-2 minister to reveal its dashed blue curve to the layer-3 National Assembly members group, or select the MPs group to reveal all of these connections. The curves stay hidden until selected, like the other connections. These lines show parliamentary questions under section 107(2); a minister’s own parliamentary membership is a separate relationship.

The Judiciary uses the same four rings:

1. Leadership — Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice.
2. Apex courts — Constitutional Court and Supreme Court, with different final jurisdictions.
3. High and specialist courts — High Court, Labour Court and Administrative Court.
4. Lower courts — magistrates courts and customary law courts.

The Judicial Service Commission sits beside the court rings for administration and appointments. Courts decide cases independently; these rings are an overview, not a single appeal route. Select the Judiciary heading for its overview.

The Legislature uses four rings too:

1. Leadership — Speaker, President of the Senate and their deputies.
2. Chambers — National Assembly and Senate.
3. Members — MPs in the National Assembly and Senators.
4. Committees — chamber committees and committees serving Parliament as a whole.

Members elect their presiding officers and serve on committees. These rings organise roles and membership. Select the Legislature heading for Parliament’s overview; its law-making connections also reach the President in the Executive sector.

Independent institutions have four layers:

1. Chairperson and commissioners — collective leadership.
2. Secretariat head — manages daily operations.
3. Directorates or specialist teams — carry out the institution’s work.
4. Provincial offices or public-facing units — where these exist.

Each institution follows its own column across the rings. Click its commissioners to reveal the dashed reporting line to Parliament, or click the Legislature heading to see all reporting links. Annual reports pass through the responsible Minister under section 323; this is accountability, not a power to direct independent decisions.

Operational teams and public access points are grouped. Dashed-outline markers mean a role or unit still needs verification; the Delimitation Commission’s unpublished operating structure is left open. Select the Independent Institutions heading for the sector’s scope and sources.

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