Callistus Ndlovu | |
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| Minister of Industry and Technology | |
| In office July 1985 – 13 April 1989 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Mugabe |
| Preceded by | Robert Mugabe |
| Succeeded by | Kumbirai Kangai (as Minister of Industry and Commerce) |
| Minister of Mines | |
| In office January 1984 – July 1985 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Mugabe |
| Preceded by | Maurice Nyagumbo |
| Succeeded by | Richard Hove |
| Minister of Construction | |
| In office April 1982 – January 1984 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Mugabe |
| Preceded by | Clement Muchachi (as Minister of Works) |
| Succeeded by | Simbarashe Mumbengegwi |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 1985–1990 | |
| Constituency | Matabeleland North Province |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 13 May 1980 – 1985 | |
| Constituency | Matabeleland South Province |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 February 1936 Plumtree, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |
| Died | 13 February 2019 (aged 83) Krugersdorp, South Africa |
| Resting place | National Heroes' Acre |
| Political party | NDP (1960–1961) ZAPU (1963–1984) ZANU (1984–1987) ZANU–PF (after 1987) |
| Spouse | Angeline Ndlovu |
| Children | 7 |
| Alma mater | Pius XII Catholic University College (BA) New York University (MA) Stony Brook University (PhD) |
Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu (9 February 1936 – 13 February 2019) was a Zimbabwean academic, diplomat, and politician. He joined the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in 1963 as a teacher in Matabeleland, and went on to serve as its representative to the United Nations and North America in the 1970s. After Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, he was a member of the House of Assembly from 1980 to 1985 and served as a senator from 1985 to 1990. He left ZAPU and joined the ruling ZANU–PF party in 1984.
Ndlovu held several portfolios in Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's cabinet in the 1980s, serving as Minister of Construction from 1982 to 1984, Minister of Mines from 1984 to 1985, and Minister of Industry and Technology between 1985 and 1989. In 1989, he was implicated in the Willowgate corruption scandal and resigned from the cabinet after being accused of lying to the official panel investigating the allegations. He ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 2000 and again for the Senate in 2013, and served on the ZANU–PF Central Committee and as the party's provincial chairman for Bulawayo. He died in 2019 in South Africa, where he was being treated for cancer.