Antelope Mine
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| Coordinates | 21 ° 3 ′ S , 28 ° 26 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Zimbabwe | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZW | ||
Antelope Mine is a 981 m high place with 3,500 inhabitants and a district in the province of Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe 114 km south of Bulawayo . The place is in the semi-arid, sparsely populated south of the country on a lake that fills up in the rainy season and some irrigated fields east of it in the valley.
The settlement was created in 1913 when gold was found there. But already in 1919 the deposits were exhausted. Nevertheless, it has remained a place of mining, because nickel is mined in the surrounding area in the Noel Mine.
Antelope Mine gained notoriety in the 1980s when Robert Mugabe's 5th Brigade, trained in North Korea, carried out the so-called Kezi massacre as part of the Gukurahundi , which killed 20,000 Matabele who then found a mass grave in the dead shafts in Antelope Mine .
Some Stone Age tools have now been found at Antelope Mine.