Original sentence: He helped direct Zimbabwe's 1970s war of independence and later became the country's spy-master during the 1980s civil conflict.He is currently minister of rural housing, a relative backwater, after spells as minister of national security and speaker of parliament
Edited sentence: His rise to power began as a young man, when he helped direct Zimbabwe's 1970s war of independence and later became the country's spy-master during the 1980s civil conflict