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Empress Mine Township is a populated place in the area formerly known as Salakuhle (misspelled as Salagushle) in Zhombe Communal Land, Kwekwe District of the Midlands Province in Zimbabwe. It is Zhombe's largest growth point yet officially it is rated second after Zhombe Joel, the current Zhombe District capital. Location Empress Mine Township is about 70 km south-west of Kadoma by road, 98 km north-west of Kwekwe by the fastest route, and just 3 km south of Columbina Rural Service Center. History The first houses at Empress Mine Township were built in 1968 when Empress Nickel Mine was established,http://www.onemine.org/search/summary.cfm/Hydraulic-Sandfilling-to-Improve-Stability-at-Empress-Nickel-Mine twelve years after Rio Tinto Southern Rhodesia Limited was initially incorporated on August 29, 1956 to develop and mine the Empress Nickel deposit. RioZim as it is called now, was the first mining operation Rio Tinto set up outside Europe. Residential areas ...
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Township
A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canada, Scotland, and parts of the United States, the term refers to settlements too small or scattered to be considered urban. Australia '' The Australian National Dictionary'' defines a township as "a site reserved for and laid out as a town; such a site at an early stage of its occupation and development; a small town". The term refers purely to the settlement; it does not refer to a unit of government. Townships are governed as part of a larger council (such as that of a shire, district or city) or authority. Canada In Canada, two kinds of township occur in common use: *In Eastern Canada, a township is one form of the subdivision of a county. In Canadian French, this is a . Townships are referred to as "lots" in Prince Edward Island ...
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Growth Point
A growth point is a technical term in cognitive linguistics and gesture research. It refers to the earliest beginnings of a spoken utterance In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person. In the case of oral language, spoken languages, it is generally, but not always, bounded ... in the mind of a speaker, combining the beginnings of a mimetic gesture with the preliminary verbal expression of the person's thought.McNeill, D.1992. '' Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. ''Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press References {{Reflist Psycholinguistics Cognitive linguistics ...
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Gwanzura
Gwanzura is a football stadium in Highfield, Harare it was built in the 1960s. It is bordered by Mushandirapamwe Hotel, Machipisa council bar, bus station, Jerusalem suburb and by a BP station owned by the Tawengwas.It was built by the brothers Eric and Phanuel Gwanzura to defy colonial restrictions on access to sporting infrastructure for black Africans. Historically, it has been the home ground of CAPS United, Blue line aces and Lions. It hosts Castle Lager premier soccer matches. There media reports in February 2008 that indicated that the stadium was in a poor state, with one reporter going as far as to compare it to a harvested wheat field.Gwanzura in pathetic stataccessed 25 February 2008) The Harare City Council is charged with the upkeep of the stadium. References

Football venues in Zimbabwe Sport in Harare Buildings and structures in Harare Stadiums in Zimbabwe 1960s establishments in Rhodesia {{Zimbabwe-sports-venue-stub ...
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Mopane School Stadium Grand Stand
''Colophospermum mopane'', commonly called mopane, mopani, butterfly tree, turpentine tree, or balsam tree, is a tree in the legume family (Fabaceae), that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas, in elevation, in parts of Southern Africa. The tree only occurs in Africa and is the only species in genus ''Colophospermum''. Its distinctive butterfly-shaped (bifoliate) leaf and thin kidney-shaped/nearly semi-circular seed pod make it easy to identify. Though hard and dense and difficult to work with, it is valued timber in all sorts of construction due to its termite tolerance. Together with camel thorn and leadwood, one of the three regionally important firewood trees, due to the enduring heat, and these woods are also some of the preferred use culinarily for braai. Range and habitat The mopane is found on low-lying ground from (Mozambique) to (Zimbabwe). Mopane ecoregions Native to Southern Africa, its habitat is divided crudely into two regions: the "Angola region", i.e., A ...
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