Jacob Mudenda

• Robert Mugabe 2013-2017
• Emmerson Mnangagwa 2017-present

Main article: Willowgate

In the late 1980s, Mudenda, along with other members of the Zimbabwe government, were implicated in a scandal involving the illegal sales of cars. Mudenda, along with the other individuals involved, purchased vehicles from a legal importer in Willowvale at a low rate and would sell the vehicles at a highly inflated price. ^[9] Mugabe, and many other politicians were involved in the investigation. Mudenda was found to have made more than 100,000 Zimbabwe dollars ($51,000) in the purchase and resale of one vehicle. ^[10] The scandal ended the political careers of many individuals, including Maurice Nyagumbo. ^[9] Mudenda, however, was able to make his way back into politics after years away from serving as a government official. In his time away from politics, Mudenda spent significant time establishing his law firm. The firm, Mudenda Attorneys Legal Practitioners, still practices in Bulawayo today. ^[11]

Return to politics

Mudenda, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Vyacheslav Volodin at the “Russia-Africa” parliamentary conference in Moscow on 20 March 2023

In February, 2013 Mudenda stepped back into the public sphere with his appointment as the chairman of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC). ^[12] The return to politics did not come without controversy. Some in Zimbabwe felt that Mudenda's appointment did not follow constitutional procedures. ^[13] Mudenda's appointment lasted only a short period of time, however, as he was elected the Speaker of the House on July 31 of the same year. ^[14] On September 3, 2013 Mudenda took his position replacing former Speaker, Lovemore Moyo ^[14] Mudenda has remained in the same position since his appointment in 2013.

See also

• List of speakers of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe

References

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6. General Notice 617 of 1985 (PDF) (Government Gazette). Government of Zimbabwe. 11 October 1985. Harare. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
7. Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe; Legal Resources Foundation (1997). Breaking the Silence, Building True Peace.
8. Dzirutwe, MacDonald (1 June 2018). "Banned by Mugabe, play about Gukurahundi massacres finally staged". Reuters. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
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11. "Law Society bars 40 lawyers among them Mudenda from practising (See some of the names)". My Zimbabwe News. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
12. Salcedo-Albarán, Eduardo (January 2017). "Coltan Trafficking Network in the Democratic Republic of Congo". The Global Observatory of Transnational Criminal Networks. 5.
13. Chiduza, L. (2015). "The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission: Prospects and challenges for the protection of human rights". Law Democracy & Development. 19.
14. Dzirutwe, MacDonald; Brock, Joe; Cropley, Ed (1 January 2018). "The inside story of Mugabe's downfall". New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy. 2018 (68): 32–35. hdl:10520/EJC-c70dcd83c. ISSN   1607-2820.

The Honourable Jacob Mudenda
Mudenda in 2022
Speaker of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 September 2013
Deputy	Tsitsi Gezi
Preceded by	Lovemore Moyo

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