Patriotic Union of Mandebeleland ( PUMA ) is a minor Zimbabwean political party . It was launched in Bulawayo in February , 2006 by ex-ZANU PF politician Leonard Nkala . It seeks to divide Matabeleland and the Midlands into eight regions and devolve legislative and administrative power to those regions . It also supports a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 20,000 Zimbabweans at the hands of Robert Mugabe 's government in Matabeleland in the 1980s . It supports the recruitment of local Ndebele inhabitants for State jobs in Matabeleland but denies any intention to secede from Zimbabwe
deaths of more than 20,000 Zimbabweans
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Patriotic Union of Mandebeleland