Mushumbi Pools

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Mushumbi Pools is a village and business centre in Mbire District, north of Guruve in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. The village is named after a series of pools in and adjacent to the Manyame River.

During the Second Chimurenga, villagers from the surrounding areas, and also from Kanyemba, were moved to a protected village along the Dande river by Rhodesian Security Forces. The village was the site of a battle between ZIPRA guerillas and the Rhodesian army in the late 1970s. After the end of the war, there was a ZIPRA demobilisation camp at Mushumbi Pools, where in March 1981 3 Zimbabwe National Army soldiers were killed in a conflict with ZIPRA men.

References

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  4. ↑ Dube, V. (5 January 2025). "Keeps were a way of isolating guerillas from the masses". Sunday News, Zimbabwe. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
  5. ↑ "The attack on Mushumbi Pools is still on the villagers' lips". Sunday News, Zimbabwe. 3 November 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
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