National Hero Status
In 1999 Nkomo was declared a National Hero and is buried in the National Heroes Acre in Harare.
On 27 June 2000, a set of four postage stamps were issued by the Post and Telecommunications Corporation of Zimbabwe featuring Joshua Nkomo. They had denominations of ZW$2.00, $9.10, $12.00 and $16.00 and were designed by Cedric D. Herbert.
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