Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu (22 October 1930 – 28 May 2017) was a

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an politician and deputy president of the

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Political career

Ndlovu was a veteran member of PF-ZAPU, serving as ZAPU representative at the

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, and then of ZANU-PF following the unification of the two parties. He was the first

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Bulawayo 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 ...

, the second largest city in the country, to be elected after Zimbabwe's independence, a post he held until 1985. Ndlovu served as the ZAPU (and subsequently ZANU-PF) member of parliament for Insiza from 1985 until he lost the seat to the MDC in

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. He was elected senator for Insiza in

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

and returned to the senate under the proportional representation system in

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, representing ZANU-PF in

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. From 2003 to his death in 2017, he was on the

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list as well as the European Union sanctions list.Official Journal of the European Union, L 247, 14 September 2002, p.22

References

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