Emmanuel Chiroto was the deputy mayor of Harare, Zimbabwe.
In the March 2008 election, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won 45 of the 46 local council seats in Harare.
Chiroto, who is a member of the MDC was elected as Mayor of Harare by the councillors on June 15.
Ignatius Chombo, the Minister of Local Government, had not sworn in the new local administrations, and because the elected Harare councillors were not allowed to meet at Harare's Town House, they met elsewhere to elect Chiroto.
[1][2] His wife was later found murdered[2] on June 18, 2008 at a farm in outlying Borrowdale.