Didymus Noel Edwin Mutasa (born 27 July 1935)[1] is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Zimbabwe's Speaker of Parliament from 1980 to 1990.

[4] Mutasa was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Social Science (DSocSc) by the University of Birmingham in 1990.

[5][6][7] Before Zimbabwean independence, he was chairman of the Cold Comfort Farm society, a non-racial co-operative community near Salisbury (as it then was).

[14] In the March 2008 parliamentary election, Mutasa was nominated by ZANU-PF as its candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Headlands constituency in Manicaland.

[16] Mutasa was identified with a faction in ZANU-PF that wanted vice-president Joice Mujuru to become President Mugabe's successor.

In late 2014, the Mujuru faction was accused of plotting against Mugabe, and in that context Mutasa failed to win re-election to the ZANU-PF Central Committee in November 2014.

The farmers are represented by British lawyer Matthew Coleman, assisted by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and pay no legal fees as these are picked up by AgricAfrica, a British-Zimbabwean organisation.

[22] [23] Didymus Mutasa is set to be featured in the Pan-African film Motherland (2009) as one of the speakers on land reform in Africa.