Nicholas Mabodoko
Nicholas Joel Mabodoko, is a Zimbabwean politician.
Nicholas Joel Mabodoko | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Bulawayo | |
| In office 1985–1988 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 May 1922 |
| Died | 21 November 2007 (aged 85) |
| Political party | PF-ZAPU, ZANU-PF |
Prior to independence he chaired the Joint African Advisory Board.[1] He became the first black chairman of the African Advisory Board in 1975. After independence, he served as PF-ZAPU mayor of Bulawayo from 1985 to 1988, becoming a member of ZANU-PF following the unification of the two parties in 1987. During the Bulawayo mayoral elections of 2001, he clashed with Jonathan Moyo over alleged vote-buying.[2]
He served as chairman of the state bus company ZUPCO until 2001.[3] The government of Zimbabwe declared him a Liberation War hero and was buried with honours. In the 1970s he was Chairman of Bulawayo African Football Association (BAFA)
References
- Ranger, Terence (2010). Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960. Boydell & Brewer.
- "Moyo told to stop dishing out money". Daily News. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- "New Board For Troubled ZUPCO". Africa News Service. 1 February 2011. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
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