Career
He supported and participated in Prime Minister Ian Smith"s Internal Settlement. He later served as Member of Parliament for Gokwe until April 1986 when he lost his position for misdemeanors. On April 18, 1978, he was unexpectedly fired after he criticized the government for excluding blacks from high-level jobs.
In 1980 Hove was thrown out of Parliament after he openly criticized the Mugabe administration for corruption, saying,
On 4/1/99 information about Byron Hove"s life and death was posted in the soc.culture.zimbabwe newsgroup.
lieutenant was taken that day from the Herald, and read as follows:
He was buried on January 5.at Mwembe in Mberengwa district.