Silobela is a
constituency
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represented in the
National Assembly
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of the
Parliament of Zimbabwe
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, located in
Silobela
Silobela is an agricultural village in Kwekwe District in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about west of Kwekwe town, north-west of Gweru town, and bordering Nkayi on the west.
Background
Most of the inhabitants of Silobela ...
,
Midlands Province
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. Its current MP since the
2023 election is
Jona Nyevera 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 ...
.
History
In the 1985–1990 term the whole of
Silobela Communal Land and
Zhombe Communal Land were part of one big constituency, Kwekwe West, whose MP was Hon. Josiah Tavagwisa Chinyati. From 2000 to 2008 the boundaries of Silobela constituency remained the same. 9 wards of Redcliff Municipality were under Silobela. At present the Redcliff Municipal wards are no longer part of this constituency. Also ward 5, 15 and 26 of the Kwekwe Rural District Council
Zibagwe RDC
Zibagwe Rural District Council is a rural local government arm in Kwekwe District created under the Rural District Councils Act: Chapter 20.13. It was formed from the amalgamation of the former Kwekwe Rural Council and the Mashambazhou District ...
, which are in
Zhombe
Zhombe (also known as Jombe) is a rural communal area in Kwekwe District, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. It is an area of mixed Shona and Northern Ndebele People. It lies along the Mnyathi border line between Midlands and Mashonaland Provinces ...
, have been added to this constituency. The current Silobela constituency comprises wards 4, 5, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 33.
[Online Viewin]
Silobela Constituency Profile
Yumpu.com, English Documents, Retrieved 23 February 2016
Members
Election results
See also
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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 si ...
References
{{Kwekwe District
Constituencies established in 1990
Parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe
Midlands Province