Pelandaba
Pelandaba is a suburb of Bulawayo and was an electoral constituency in Matabeleland.
History
The suburb was built in the 1950s as an "elite African community". The 1930 Land Apportionment Act which designated urban land for whites, meant that land for Pelandaba and Pumula was leased from the city. An economic boom in the early 1950s resulted in jobs and wages (including for blacks) increasing. And labour unrest in the late 1940s showed a more stable social situation was needed - better housing in better neighborhoods.
Bulawayo "grudgingly introduced an African Home Ownership Scheme on a thirty-year leasehold basis". So, residents did not actually own the land on which they built "even the[ir] plushest houses".[1]
J. H. Sobantu (who in the 1930s was "an emerging member of Southern Rhodesia's Westernized African elite"), [2] was one of the chairmen of the residents' association. [3]
The suburb proved successful enough in attracting the African elite (including such notables as Joshua Nkomo), and became "the trendiest black community in Bulawayo"; by 1957 its houses rivaled those of expensive white neighborhoods. [4]
Population/Government
In 2007, the population was almost 30 000.
Joshua Nkomo had a house there.
Pelandaba is a suburb of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. It houses Sizane Secondary School, Induba Primary School and the house of late Joshua Nkomo, the former leader of Zimbabwe's African Peoples Union.
In the 1990 Parliamentary Election (see A History of Zimbabwean Elections) Pelandaba returned to Parliament:
- Joseph Msika of Zanu PF with 10 902 votes,
- Christopher Mariga of ZUM with 2 202 votes.
Turnout - 13 204 or 36.85 %
In the 2000 Elections, (see A History of Zimbabwean Elections) Pelandaba returned to Parliament:
- Jeffrey Khumalo of MDC with 16 462 votes,
- Edward Simela of Zanu PF with 2 696 votes,
- Stephen Nkomo of ZAPU with 270 votes,
- Victor Chipanga of UP with 57 votes,
- Canaan Zinothi Moyo of Liberty Party of Zimbabwe with 54 votes,
- Jele Ndimande of Liberty Party with 35 votes.
In the 2013 Elections, (see A History of Zimbabwean Elections) Pelandaba–Mpopoma returned to Parliament:
- Bekithemba Nyathi of MDC–T with 6 024 votes or 59.87 percent,
- Joseph Tshuma of Zanu PF with 2 122 votes or 21.09 percent,
- Duduzile Dube of MDC–N with 964 votes or 9.58 percent,
- 8 others with 951 votes or 9.45 percent.
Total 10 061 votes
ZEC has released results from the 21 June 2023 nomination court for Bulawayo. [5]
Pelandaba/Tshabalala Constituency
- Cecilia Verenga – Zanu PF
- Gift Ostallos Siziba – CCC
- Soneni Moyo- CCC
- Paulo Maplanka – EFF
- Gift Ndlovu –DOP
- ↑ [Muzondidya, James Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe.], Africa World Press, 2005, Retrieved: 6 July 2022
- ↑ [Stapleton, Timothy Joseph African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923–80], University Rochester Press, 2011, Retrieved: 6 July 2022
- ↑ [West, Michael Oliver The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965], Indiana University Press, 2002, Retrieved: 6 July 2022
- ↑ Pelandaba, Wikipedia, Retrieved: 6 July 2022
- ↑ ZEC releases Bulawayo Nomination Court results, Chronicle, Published: 22 June 2023, Retrieved: 22 June 2023
