Zvishavane
Coordinates: 20 ° 18 ′ S , 30 ° 4 ′ E
Zvishavane (formerly: Shabani ) is a city of 45,230 people in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe . It is 292 km (as the crow flies) from the capital Harare . Shabani was the original name of the city and comes from the Ndebele word Shavani , which means something like "finger millet" or "acting together".
Zvishavane has a rail connection to Harare and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, but also to Maputo in Mozambique .
Mining
Mining asbestos deposits outside the city are an important economic factor for Zvishavane. The asbestos deposits extend along a fault line in the Vukwe Mountains north and northeast of the city and are part of the Great Dyke . They occur between talc schist on the one hand and slightly serpentinized dunite complexes and serpentinites on the other and lie together on a Precambrian basement made of gneiss . Asbestos has been extracted here by several mining companies.
Sports
The Shabanie Mine FC football club is based in Zvishavane.
sons and daughters of the town
- Emmerson Mnangagwa (born 1942 or 1946), politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ R [ené]. A [rthur]. Pelletier: Mineral Resources of South-Central Africa . Oxford University Press, Cape Town / London / New York / Toronto 1964, pp. 151–153.