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Shurugwi
Shurugwi, formerly Selukwe, is a small town and administrative centre in Midlands Province, southern Zimbabwe, located about 350 km (220 miles) south of Harare, with a population of 22,900 according to the 2022 census. The town was established in 1899 on the Selukwe Goldfield, which itself was discovered in the early 1890s not long after the annexation of Rhodesia by the Pioneer Column. The town lies in well wooded, hilly and picturesque country at an altitude of about 1,440 metres (4700') and is well watered having a typical annual rainfall of 89 cm (3'). On a clear day it is quite possible to see the hills around Masvingo and Great Zimbabwe, the latter being over 145 km (90 miles) away. History Selukwe was established in 1899 by the British South Africa Company and Willoughby's Consolidated Company. Its name was derived from a nearby bare oval granite hill that resembled the shape of a pigpen (''selukwe'') of the local Karanga people. The district remains an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shurugwi Rural Areas
Shurugwi Rural Areas, also known as Shurugwi District, is a rural area around Shurugwi, Zimbabwe, mainly to the east, beginning from the town centre. The area between the town and the rural areas was mainly occupied by white commercial farmers. It is thought that at one time, these farms were owned by three families who were all related. The total area of these farms is approximately 60 km x 40 km similar to an area that was occupied by more than 4,000 African families. Most of the black families are subsistence farmers. Maize is generally grown by the majority. Education Primary schools There are a number of primary schools in Shurugwi Rural. Most of them, like Vungwi Primary School, were built as far back as 1905. The list includes: Banga, Bokai, Chekenyu, Dhlemiti, Chikato, Dombwe, Hanke, Makonde (St Monica), Makotore, Matamba, Mavedzenge (St Peter), Mhangami (St Pius), Ndaora (St Paul), Nhema (St Francis), Pakame, Rusike Shamba, Tumba, Vungwi, Gundura, Banga, Wida, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midlands, Zimbabwe
Midlands is a Provinces of Zimbabwe, province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of and a population of 1,614,941 (2012). It is home to various peoples. Located at a central point in the country, it contains speakers of Shona language, Shona, Zimbabwean Ndebele language, Ndebele, Tswana language, Tswana, Sotho language, Sotho and Chewa language, Chewa, as well as of various other languages. Gweru, the third-largest city in Zimbabwe, is the capital of the province. Midlands Province contains Kwekwe, a city of considerable mining and manufacturing industries, in which also the Sable Chemicals Trust maintains a presence. Geography Districts Midlands Provinces is divided into eight districts: * Chirumhanzu District, Chirumhanzu * Gokwe North District, Gokwe North * Gokwe South District, Gokwe South * Gweru District, Gweru * Kwekwe District, Kwekwe * Mberengwa District, Mberengwa * Shurugwi District, Shurugwi * Zvishavane District, Zvishavane Local government The Provincial Administra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Douglas Smith
Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1979. He was the country's first premier not born abroad, and led the predominantly white government that unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in November 1965 following prolonged dispute over the terms, particularly British demands for black majority rule. He remained Prime Minister for almost all of the 14 years of international isolation that followed, and oversaw Rhodesia's security forces during most of the Bush War, which pitted the unrecognised administration against communist-backed black nationalist guerrilla groups. Smith, who has been described as personifying white Rhodesia, remains a highly controversial figure. Smith was born to British immigrants in Selukwe, a small town in the Southern Rhodesian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tongogara High School
Tongogara High School is a government-run high school in the rural areas of Chief Nhema in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe which offers classes up to A-level. As one of the many post-independence secondary schools to be built in Zimbabwe, it was named after a famous freedom fighter, Josiah Tongogara, as an honour to his exploits in the Rhodesian Bush War The Rhodesian Bush War, also called the Second as well as the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia). The conflict pitted three for .... The school is situated in the homeland of the former fighter. It is only 15 km from Chachacha business centre, 18 km from the iconic Chinogwenya village and the District Heroes Acre. The first A-level enrollment was in 1989. Boarding facilities were extended to the lower grades from 1990. There is also a continuing education program for those who would like to advance their education. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unki Mine
The Unki mine is an underground mine located in the central part of Zimbabwe in Shurugwi, Midlands Province. Unki represents one of the largest platinum Platinum is a chemical element with the symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanish , a diminutive of "silver". Platinu ... reserves in Zimbabwe having estimated reserves of 34 million oz of platinum. The mine produces around 64,000 oz of platinum/year. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Unki Mine Platinum mines in Zimbabwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guruguru Mountain
Guruguru Mountain is a solid dome-shaped volcanic rock in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe, near Pakame Mission. ''Guruguru'', its Shona name, and ''Nkulunkulu'', its Ndebele name, both mean "the biggest". It is by far the highest mountain in the Shurugwi Rural Areas and the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. Guruguru is a solid rock mountain formed when a volcanic A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ... eruption pushed lava up through a central core. It has a radius of over three kilometers and a height of over 500 meters. There is a spring of water at its summit. Little vegetation grows on the mountain except near the base. It is seen as a great symbol by the locals; some worshippers go to the mountain to pray, and there is also a local church that baptizes its members in the water fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwenoro Dam
Parameter names and descri The Gwenoro Dam is located inside Gwenoro Farm, an estate formerly owned by Ian Douglas Smith (1919-2007), a former Prime Minister of Rhodesia. The farm was seized in stages by the Government of Zimbabwe from Ian Smith and his family between 2002 and December 2012. The Gwenoro Dam supplies water to nearby Gweru and Shurugwi in Zimbabwe. The dam is constructed on the Runde River (formerly Lundi River; a medium density suburb in Gweru is named after the river (Lundi Park)). The name Gwenoro is derived from a wild animal found in the area known in the local language of Shona Shona often refers to: * Shona people, a Southern African people * Shona language, a Bantu language spoken by Shona people today Shona may also refer to: * ''Shona'' (album), 1994 album by New Zealand singer Shona Laing * Shona (given name) * S ... as Nhoro (''gweNORO''), which means a 'place inhabited by Nhoro'. The area is very beautiful and picturesque. The dam is full from Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanke Adventist High School
Hanke Adventist High School is a high school in Shurugwi, 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 .... It is a part of Hank Adventist Mission, including Hanke Adventist Primary School (HAPS). The school has been in existence for over a hundred years. The buildings are now very old, with the recent construction being the secondary school dining hall. The school accommodates both boarders and day scholars. The maximum number of students accommodated can reach approximately 600 pupils. References High schools in Zimbabwe {{Zimbabwe-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakame Mission
Pakame Mission is a Methodist-run boarding school in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe which offers classes up to A-level. The mission consists of a primary school and a high school. The school was started by Esau Nemapare, an Ethiopianist clergyman. For a time, it was operated by Thompson Samkange Thompson Samkange (1893–1956) was a major figure in the history of Rhodesian/Zimbabwean independence. He led the African National Council in 1945, and was one of the founders of the Bantu National Congress. He was the father of Zimbabwean hist .... References Sources * {{Zimbabwe-school-stub Schools in Zimbabwe Education in Midlands Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gweru
Gweru is a city in central Zimbabwe. Near the geographical centre of the country. It is on the centre of Midlands Province. Originally an area known to the Northern Ndebele people, Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River's high Bank (geography), banks, in 1894 it became the site of a military outpost established by Leander Starr Jameson. In 1914 it attained Municipality, municipal status, and in 1971 it became a city. The city has a population of 158,200 as of the 2022 census. Gweru is known for farming activities in beef cattle, crop farming, and commercial gardening of crops for the export market. It is also home to a number of colleges and universities, most prominently Midlands State University and Mkoba Teachers College. The city was nicknamed City of Progress. History Gweru used to be named Gwelo. Matabele settlement was named iKwelo (“The Steep Place”), after the river’s high banks. The modern town, founded in 1894 as a military outpost, develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Trichardt , names sometimes translated to English as "Louis"
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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
