Tsholotsho is a well known " battle ground " of Zimbabwean politics with the latest event being the so-called Tsholotsho Declaration of 2005 involving leading ZANU-PF members and Jonathan Moyo , in which they were accused of mooting a boardroom removal of President Mugabe . It was the location of a mass killing in 1983 , as part of Robert Mugabe 's " Gukurahundi " . Jonathan Moyo , who twice served as lnformation Minister in the ZANU-PF government , was elected as an Independent MP for Tsholotsho in 2005 . The first MP of the area between 1980 and 1985 was John Landa Nkomo who represented one part of the district that was combined with Bulawayo 's Luveve Constituency while David Kwidini represented another part that was combined with the neighbouring Wankie District . Between 1985 and 1990 the district was represented by Amos Mkwananzi . Cain Mathema was the last Zanu PF MP before the advent of the MDC from 1990 to 2000 . Cain Mathema lost the seatbto MDC 's Mtoliki Sibanda in 2000 who later lost to Jonathan Moyo who stood as an independent in the 2005 . The District was then divided into two constituencies of Tsholotsho South and North with Jonathan Moyo ( independent ) narrowly retaining the latter while Maxwell Dube of the MDC winning the former in the 2008 harmonised elections . In 2013 Rosemary Sipepa Nkomo of MDC beat Jonathan Moyo to become the new MP for Tsholotsho North only lose it two years later when the MDC suffered a split . Tsholotsho South went Madodana Sibanda of Zanu PF while Jonathan Moyo bounced back as Tsholotsho North MP ( this time as a Zanu PF candidate ) in a by election boycotted by all major parties in 2015
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Tsholotsho District