Kutama is a town in the Zvimba District of Mashonaland West Province in

Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

. The town is home to the

Kutama College Kutama College (officially St Francis Xavier's Kutama 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 a ...

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 th ...

. Mugabe was buried in the courtyard of his rural homestead in Kutama on 28 September 2019.

History

Former President of Zimbabwe

was born in Kutama on 21 February 1924. He was also later buried at his home in Kutama on 28 September 2019.

References

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