 Defending the law, he said that "the revolution is not complete until indigenous Zimbabweans own the means of production".Mangwana was nominated by ZANU-PF as its candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Chivi Central constituency, in Masvingo Province, in the March 2008 parliamentary election.He won the seat with 8,228 votes, defeating Chivhanga Henry of the Movement for Democratic Change, who received 6,471 votes, and Mufudzi Tinashe, an independent who received 452 votes.