Kutama is a town in the

Zvimba District Zvimba District is a district of Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe. Location The district is located in Mashonaland West Province, in central northern Zimbabwe. Zvimba District is bordered by Guruve District to the north, Mazowe District to th ...

Mashonaland West Province Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 57,441 km² and a population of approximately 1.5 million (2012). Chinhoyi is the capital of the province. Districts Mashonaland West is divided into 7 districts: * Chegutu * ...

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

. The town is home to the

Kutama College Kutama College (officially St Francis Xavier College) is a private Catholic independent boarding high school near Norton, Zimbabwe in the Zvimba area, 80 kilometres southwest of Harare. Grown out of a Mission station founded in 1914 and run by th ...

and was the birthplace of Zimbabwe's former President

Robert Mugabe Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the ...

. Mugabe was buried in the courtyard of his rural homestead in Kutama on 28 September 2019.‘’Zimbabwe's Mugabe buried in home village, ending an era’’ by Gift Sukhala and Philemon Bulawayo of Reuters; published September 28, 2019

History

Former President of Zimbabwe

was born in Kutama on 21 February 1924 and was buried on 28 September 2019.

References

Zvimba District Populated places in Mashonaland West Province {{Zimbabwe-geo-stub