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Lower Gweru
Lower Gwelo is a developed communal settlement in the Midlands province, Zimbabwe and is located about 40 km north-west of Gweru, and stretches a further 50 km to the west. Lower gwelo was initially called Somabhula and later became Somabhula ekhanyayo after establishment of Seventh day adventist missions stations that covered the entire area. Chiefdoms in Lower Gwelo include Sogwala, Sikombingo, Mdubiwa and Bunina. The settlement type is mostly linear along roads, although it is dispersed in some remote areas. There are several business centres which include Mission, Mankunzane, Makepesi, Sikombingo, Dufuya, Mangwande, Sogwala, Maboleni and Insukamini, a former district administration centre which is also one of the few state townships in the country. Maboleni and Insukamini are the two growth points within lower Gwelo. Geography Most of the areas are well watered and marshy. The major river is Vungu River locally referred to as u"Vunku" which is a tributary of the grea ...
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare. The second largest city is Bulawayo. A country of roughly 15 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona language, Shona, and Northern Ndebele language, Ndebele the most common. Beginning in the 9th century, during its late Iron Age, the Bantu peoples, Bantu people (who would become the ethnic Shona people, Shona) built the city-state of Great Zimbabwe which became one of the major African trade centres by the 11th century, controlling the gold, ivory and copper trades with the Swahili coast, which were connected to Arab and Indian states. By the mid 15th century, the city-state had been abandoned. From there, the Kingdom of Zimbabwe was established, fol ...
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NtabaMhlophe
Ntabamhlophe is a town in Uthukela District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. References

Populated places in the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub ...
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Mzila
King Mzila Nxumalo, Mzila kaSoshangane Nxumalo, Umzila, Muzila, or Nyamende was the son of Soshangane kaZikode, the founder of the Gaza empire, which at the height of its power stretched from southern Mozambique to the Limpopo River. He defeated his brother Mawewe kaSoshangane in 1861 to ascend to the Gaza throne which he ruled from 1861 to 1885. He was father of King Ngungunyane Nxumalo Gungunhana, Ndungazwe who was deposed by the Portuguese invasion Portuguese Empire. He ruled Gazaland which was named after his great-grandfather Gasa. During his reign he ruled with strict military strategies pioneered by Shaka. He was married to four wives, the first wife from the Ndiweni, clan mother of Ndungazwe "Ngungunyane" , second wife from the Hlezi clan, third wife was from the Skosana family and unfortunately she never had any children with the king and that prompted her to be less respected in the family. Lastly the youngest and last wife from the Northern King (Mambo Tohwechipi) who la ...
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