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The Districts of Zimbabwe are divided into 1,970 municipal wards as of 2023. The wards based on the 2008 delimitation are found at List of wards of Zimbabwe (2008). This list follows the 2023 Delimitation Report finalized in February 2023. [1] Wards are stated by constituency, under each province. Detailed descriptions of the ward and constituency boundaries were set out in Annexure B, Chapter 1 of the report. [2]
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province has twelve constituencies and twenty-nine wards. [3]
Harare Metropolitan Province has thirty constituencies and seventy-seven wards. There are three local authorities in Harare Metropolitan Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Manicaland Province has twenty-six constituencies and 260 wards. There are ten local authorities in Manicaland Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Mashonaland Central Province has eighteen constituencies and 238 wards. There are ten local authorities in Mashonaland Central Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Mashonaland East Province has twenty-three constituencies and 229 wards. There are eleven local authorities in Mashonaland East Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Mashonaland West Province has twenty-two constituencies and 234 wards. There are fourteen local authorities in Mashonaland West Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Masvingo Province has twenty-six constituencies and 242 wards. There are nine local authorities in Masvingo Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Matabeleland North Province has thirteen constituencies and 197 wards. There are ten local authorities in Matabeleland North Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Matabeleland South Province has twelve constituencies and 168 wards. There are ten local authorities in Matabeleland South Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Midlands Province has twenty-eight constituencies and 296 wards. There are fourteen local authorities in Midlands Province, wards are numbered separately for each of them.
Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council claimed it to be about 1.2 million. Bulawayo covers an area of about 546 square kilometres in the western part of the country, along the Matsheumhlope River. Along with the capital Harare, Bulawayo is one of two cities in Zimbabwe that is also a province.
The Northern Ndebele people are a Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Significant populations of native speakers of the Northen Ndebele language (siNdebele) are found in Zimbabwe. There is another Northern Ndebele group found in the Limpopo province of the republic of South Africa which is not related to those in Zimbabwe but this Northern Ndebele ethnic group is related to the Southern Ndebele ethnic group through being the descendants of same ancestral kings named Musi kaMhlanga and Ndebele KaMabhudu. The Northern Ndebele people of South Africa are concentrated in the towns of Polokwane, Zebediela, Mokopane and Hamanskraal.
Tsholotsho, originally known as Tjolotjo, is a district in Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. Its administrative centre is at Tsholotsho business centre which is located about 98 km north-west of Bulawayo. Districts around Tsholotsho include Lupane, Hwange, Umguza, and Bulilima. The Manzamnyama River separates Tsholotsho from Bulilima District, whilst the Gwayi River separates it from Umguza and Lupane districts, and the Hwange National Park separates it from Hwange District.
Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe on 24 and 25 June 2000 to elect members of the House of Assembly. The electoral system involved 120 constituencies returning one member each, elected by the First Past the Post system, with the President of Zimbabwe then nominating 20 members and ten further members from the Tribal Chiefs sitting ex officio. This was the first national election in which Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party had faced any real opposition since the 1980s. The newly formed Movement for Democratic Change challenged Mugabe's control of parliament. The MDC won 57 of the 120 elected seats, with 47% of the popular vote. Zanu-PF won 63 seats and carried approximately 48% of the popular vote.
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The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe, was granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of the South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, on 30 October 1888. Despite Lobengula's retrospective attempts to disavow it, it proved the foundation for the royal charter granted by the United Kingdom to Rhodes's British South Africa Company in October 1889, and thereafter for the Pioneer Column's occupation of Mashonaland in 1890, which marked the beginning of white settlement, administration and development in the country that eventually became Rhodesia, named after Rhodes, in 1895.
Lupane ( luːpɑːnɛ) District is located in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe, and it is also the Provincial Capital. The District is situated at an elevation of 976 m with a population of 198,600 inhabitants by 2019. Lupane Town is the main center of the district located 172 km from Bulawayo along the A8 Victoria Falls Road. The Government Provincial Administrative offices are located at the Town Centre. A new university near the Town has been established under the name Lupane State University, which caters for the region and beyond. The word Lupane is thought to be a Kalanga or Lozwi word.
The military history of Zimbabwe chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time. It covers invasions of native peoples of Africa, encroachment by Europeans, and civil conflict.
Umguza is a district in the southern part of Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. It was formerly known as Esiphezini District.
Harare Metropolitan Province is a province in northeastern Zimbabwe that comprises Harare, the country's capital and largest city, and three other municipalities, Chitungwiza, Epworth and Ruwa. At independence in 1980, it was originally part of Mashonaland Province which in 1983 was divided into three large provinces, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Mashonaland West - at this point, the city of Harare became part of Mashonaland East. In 1997, along with Bulawayo, it became a metropolitan province, along with the then two nearby urban settlements. Harare Metropolitan Province is divided into four local government areas - a city council, a municipality and two local boards.
Mthwakazi is the traditional name of the proto-Ndebele people and Ndebele kingdom and is in the area of today's Zimbabwe. Mthwakazi is widely used to refer to inhabitants of Matebeleland Province in Zimbabwe.
The House of Khumalo is the reigning Royal Family of the former Mthwakazi Kingdom. The Mthwakazi Kingdom was founded in 1823 by Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. While the Mthwakazi Kingdom ended in 1894 with the First Matabele War, The house has endured to the present day.
Mutare District is a district in Manicaland Province of eastern Zimbabwe. The district headquarters is the city of Mutare.
Bulelani Lobengula Mzilikazi Khumalo is a Zimbabwean politician who claims to be the third king of the Ndebele tribe, an assertion rejected as unlawful by the High Court of Zimbabwe. He claimed to have succeeded King Lobengula who was overthrown by colonial forces during the 1893 First Matabele War, after which Lozikeyi became queen regnant of the Ndebele. His coronation took place in a private ceremony in Bulawayo on 28 September 2018. In 2019 he held his first Imbizo in Beria Park, Johannesburg.
Pelandaba–Mpopoma is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Located in the city of Bulawayo in eastern Zimbabwe, it comprises the high-density suburbs of Imiyela, Mabutweni, Matshobana, Mpopoma, Mpopoma South, and Pelandaba. Its MP since the 2018 election is Charles Moyo of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance.
Cowdray Park is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Located in the city of Bulawayo in south-western Zimbabwe.
Budiriro North is a constituency in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. It was established through the 2023 delimitation report and first contested at the 2023 general election.