List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom

The ambassador of Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom is an officer of the Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the head of the Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom in London. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and also serves as Zimbabwe's non-resident accredited Ambassador to Ireland.

The ambassador is currently Colonel Christian Katsande. Having been a High Commission since Zimbabwe's formal independence in 1980, on Zimbabwe's departure from the Commonwealth of Nations in 2003, the High Commission became an Embassy. Based in Zimbabwe House on the Strand, London, the embassy dates back to the establishment of the High Commission of Southern Rhodesia in 1924 after that colony was granted a limited form of self-government in 1923. The office later became the High Commission of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1954 to 1963, the Southern Rhodesia High Commission from 1963 to 1965, and the Rhodesian Representative Office from 1965 to 1969. Between 2016 and 2018 the office was vacant, as the UK Government had rejected President Robert Mugabe's nominee, Ray Ndhlukula, for his role in the Mugabe government's land seizure program.

Officeholders

High commissioners from Southern Rhodesia, 1924–53 IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotes Sir Francis James Newton 1924 1930 John Wallace Downie 1930 1935 Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keeffe 1935 1946 Kenneth MacKenzie Goodenough 1946 1953

High commissioners from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1954–63 IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesSir Gilbert RennieMay 19541961Sir Albert Robinson19611963

High commissioners from Southern Rhodesia, 1963–1965 IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesEvan Campbell19631965Andrew Skeen22 July 196512 November 1965

Representative from Rhodesia, 1965–1969 IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesSydney Frederick Brice12 November 196515 July 1969

High commissioners from Zimbabwe, 1980–2003 IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesRobert Tatira Zwinoira19801984Herbert Murerwa1 March 19841990Stephen Chiketa19911993Dr Ngoni Togarepi Chideya19931999Simbarashe Mumbengegwi19997 December 2003

Ambassadors from Zimbabwe, 2003–date IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesSimbarashe Mumbengegwi7 December 20032005Gabriel Machinga20052016Vacant20162018Christian Katsande18 June 2018date

See also United Kingdom–Zimbabwe relations List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Zimbabwe

References

External links Embassy of Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom and Ireland