During this time, his father Tangi Mhova Mkondo joined fellow migrants recruited by Witswatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA/ WENELA) to work in the gold mines of Johannesburg, South Africa.

[1] Mkondo decided to open his own business in Lochinvar and purchased the Club Hideout 99 with approval from the Rhodesian Liquor Licensing Board and the municipal authorities.

[citation needed] Mkondo intended to close his business and follow her into exile, but was dissuaded by Herbert Chitepo and ZANLA commander Josiah Tongogara, who recommended he stay inside Rhodesia and assist with the postwar economic reconstruction when hostilities ended.

On the committee, Mkondo worked closely with fellow ZANU supporters Enos Nkala, Bernard Chidzero, George Tawengwa, Ben Mucheche, Tobias Musariri Sr, and others to fund ZANLA's weapons.

With no travel restrictions, and being a well-known successful businessman in Southern Africa, Mkondo took trips abroad to promote ZANU's cause with international figures such as US President Gerald Ford, diplomats Henry Kissinger, Andrew Young and Pope John Paul II.

[1] He was instrumental in persuading the Ford administration to have a meeting, which resulted in the 1976 Geneva talks between black nationalists and Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith.

[citation needed] Following the election of Mugabe as prime minister in March 1980, Mkondo helped many former guerrilla fighters re-integrate into civilian life.

Instead, Shuvai Mahofa due to gender equality issues was selected by the Gutu Zanu Provincial leadership led by Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr. Simon Muzenda, which Mkondo cordially accepted and then fully supported her tenure, as she was a Clans woman (VaTete) and an able politician.

[7] Mkondo, in terms of international business, turned down many executive opportunities to work in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 Index multi-national companies overseas, opting to remain in Zimbabwe.

[citation needed] In the mid-1980s, Mkondo purchased Inyatsi Farm at competitive commercial agricultural property market rates at that time from a white farmer in the Mazowe-Mashonaland Central area.

[8] Mkondo, was the Vice-president for the Affirmative Action of the IBDC organization,[9] he was also a founding father of the indigenization and black economic empowerment of the Zimbabwean economy[improper synthesis?]

[12] Paul Mkondo was the first African insurance executive and financial advisor to be recognized with the elite Life Million Dollar Roundtable International (MDRT).

Mkondo and VaMutanga were the first pioneering African Indigenous Businessmen in Rhodesia to establish a licensed Restaurant and Night Club backed by Amai Mutanga's Blessing.