Nicola Watson


Nicola Jane Watson is a Zimbabwean accountant and politician who serves as a Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe for Bulawayo Central, elected in 2018. She was previously one of the women parliamentary representatives elected in 2013.

Biography

Nicola Watson was born on 10 July 1955 in Bulawayo in the what was then Southern Rhodesia. She attended Hillside Primary School and then Townsend Secondary School. She received her tertiary education at the University of Cape Town. Her mother served as an MP.
Watson joined the Movement for Democratic Change in 2000.
In 2013, she became one of the designated woman MPs elected through proportional representation. She was elected the MP for Bulawayo Central in 2018.