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{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Emmanuel Chiroto
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| birth_place =[[Harare, Zimbabwe]]
| office = 4th [[Mayor of Harare]]
| term_start =June 15, 2008
| term_end = June 2008
| predecessor = [[Elias Mudzuri]]
| successor = [[Muchadeyi Masunda]]
|party = N/A
| religion =
| constituency = [[Harare]]
| majority =
}}

'''Emmanuel Chiroto''' was the deputy mayor of [[Harare]], [[Zimbabwe]].
In the March 2008 election, the [[Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai|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. On the night of June 16, Chiroto's house in the suburb of [[Hatcliffe, Zimbabwe|Hatcliffe]] was attacked and destroyed by [[ZANU-PF]] supporters; Chiroto believed that petrol bombs were used. Chiroto's wife, Abigail, and his four-year-old son were taken away by the attackers, although his son was delivered to a police station on June 16.<ref name=Peta>Peta Thornycroft, [http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=vn20080618112047188C166332 "Harare mayor's family abducted"], ''Daily News'', South Africa (''IOL''), June 18, 2008, page 3.</ref> Chiroto himself was not present when the attack occurred.<ref name=Peta/><ref name=Burial>Tererai Karimakwenda, [http://allafrica.com/stories/200806251024.html "Zimbabwe: Wife of Harare Mayor Buried, Without Family"], SW Radio Africa (allAfrica.com), June 25, 2008.</ref> His wife was later found murdered<ref name=Burial/> on June 18, 2008 at a farm in outlying Borrowdale.{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}} Chiroto went into hiding following this incident.<ref name=Burial/>

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