Buhera South is a
constituency represented in the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...
of the
Parliament of Zimbabwe
The Parliament of Zimbabwe is the bicameral legislature of Zimbabwe composed of the Senate and the National Assembly. The Senate is the upper house, and consists of 80 members, 60 of whom are elected by proportional representation from ten six-m ...
. Created for the
1985 election, its territory consists of the southern portion of
Buhera District, in
Manicaland Province
Manicaland is a province in eastern Zimbabwe. After Harare Province, it is the country's second-most populous province, with a population of 2.037 million, as of the 2022 census. After Harare and Bulawayo provinces, it is Zimbabwe's third-most de ...
in eastern Zimbabwe. Its inaugural member,
Kumbirai Kangai of
ZANU–PF
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe, first as prime ministe ...
, held the seat for 23 years until 2008. The current MP since the
2023 election is
Ngonidzashe Mudekunye of ZANU–PF.
Profile
According to the 2000 Delimitation Commission Report (p. 23), Buhera South is ‘An area of land bounded by a line drawn from a point at map reference 36KUP452550 on the Nyazvidzi river on 1:50 000 Map Bedza 1931B3, Edition 1, north-eastwards to the commencement of an unnamed river at map reference UP476558 on that map and down that river to its confluence with the Zvipanga River, down the Zvipanga River to its confluence with an unnamed river at map reference UP524539 on that map and up this unnamed river to its commencement at map reference UP563563 on that map; thence south-eastwards direct to a road junction at map reference UP569558 on that map and eastwards along this road to Mudanda School to the commencement of Mukono River at map reference UP652576 and down this river to its confluence with the
Mwerahari River, down the Mwerahari River to the
Save River and down the Save to its confluence with the
Devure River; thence up the Devure and Nyazvidzi Rivers to the starting point.’
History
The
ZANU–PF
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe, first as prime ministe ...
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Kumbirai Kangai was the Member of Parliament for Buhera South from 1985 to 2008 when
Naison Nemadziwa of the
MDC–T took over after beating ZANU–PF's
Joseph Chinotimba in the March 2008 elections. In the 2013 elections, a rematch between Chinotimba and Naison resulted in Chinotimba's victory, retaking the seat for ZANU–PF.
Chinotimba won reelection in 2018.
Members
See also
*
List of Zimbabwean parliamentary constituencies
{{Politics of Zimbabwe
The following is a list of parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe, as broken down by province.
The National Assembly consists of 270 members. Of these, 210 are elected in single-member constituencies of roughly equal s ...
References
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1985 establishments in Zimbabwe
Constituencies established in 1985
Manicaland Province
Parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe