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Perence Shiri

Politician · Sanction-linked entity

Perence Shiri is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Perence Shiri · Perrance Shiri · Перенс Шири · 佩兰斯·希里				[sources]
Other name	Bigboy Samson Chikerema · Black Jesus · Шири, Перенс				[sources]
Weak alias	佩蘭斯·希里				[sources]
Birth date	1955-01-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Gweru				[sources]
Death date	2020-07-29				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Citizenship	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Keywords	National government				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7167845				[sources]
Position	Chief of the Air Force (1992-2017) · Minister of Agriculture of Zimbabwe (2017-2020)				[sources]
Education	Mt St Mary's Mission School · Royal College of Defence Studies · Women's University in Africa				[sources]
Last change	2025-04-08	Last processed	2025-04-09	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Zimbabwean air chief marshal

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
James Chikerema Politician	relative	-	-
Robert Mugabe Politician · Sanctioned entity	cousin · relative	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Chief of the Air Force	1992-01-01	2017-12-07
Minister of Agriculture of Zimbabwe	2017-11-30	2020-07-27

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,119

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Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata415,836

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Graph-based entity tagging65,787

Automatically generated graph-based topic annotations

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: NK-c7jhfxNQMbSGUnAjbWx3dp · ca-sema-zimbabwe-n-a-140 · ca-sema-140-zw-perence-shiri · ofac-7549

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