Lupanes

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Lupane is a 976 m high place with 1,600 inhabitants (2006) and the provincial capital of the province of Matabeleland North in Zimbabwe . It is on the road that runs from the provincial capital Bulawayo to Hwange .

Lupane is a stronghold of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The last election resulted in nearly 300 deaths and almost 200 cases of torture among MDC supporters by ZANU-PF militias .

Lupane is a completely rural, semi-arid area, where in the north towards Gokwe the residents grow some cotton and along the rivers also maize , which is otherwise threatened by overgrazing of the barren areas.

Lupane has elementary and secondary schools. The hospital in Lupane, St. Luke's Hospital, was founded and built up in the 1950s by Hanna Davis-Ziegler from Saarland and the missionary Odilo Weeger . Lupane is the seat of Lupane State University , the construction of which began in May 2006 and which has an agricultural, economic and social science faculty.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Katharina Hanserl: St. Luke's Hospital- Zimbabwe, Lupane. 2012, accessed May 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Mandla Tshuma: Remembering Fr. Odilo Weeger, who left an indelible ink on Matabeleland soil. In: Religion in Zimbabwe. Religion in Zimbabwe, August 3, 2011, accessed May 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Lupane State University. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 18 ° 55 ′  S , 27 ° 46 ′  E