Antelope Mine
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Antelope Mine is a village in the Kezi district of the province of
Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about 114 km south of Bulawayo and 14 km south of Kezi.[1] The village was established in an area once rich in wildlife and was named after a goldmine which started operating in 1913 but closed in 1919.[2] The mine was established on the site of ancient African workings which were first discovered by Europeans in the 1890s and the first claims were pegged in 1894.[1]
The modern village is a commercial centre for the surrounding area and the Semukwa communal land. Together with the village of
Salvation Army operates both a mission school and a hospital in the village.[1]
Antelope Mine is, like several other mining areas in Zimbabwe, a centre of settlement for members of the Chewa people. They migrated to the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s from Northern Rhodesia (the present-day Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Malawi) to work as migrant labourers in the mineral extraction and agricultural industries.[3]
During the Zimbabwean government's ZAPU prisoners were discovered in the abandoned mineshaft.[5]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9514505-0-6.
- ISBN 0-8108-3471-5.
- ISBN 978-3-03911-942-4.
- ^ Simpson, John (7 May 2008). "Tracking down a massacre". BBC News. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
- ^ "Mass grave discovered in Matabeleland". Independent Online. 28 September 1999. Retrieved 3 November 2016.