Kamativi
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Published : December 19, 2016
| Last modified on July 4th, 2017 at 2:22 pm
Kamativi is a small mining town in Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe.
The town grew around Kamativi tin mine.The name Kamativi is derived from the word “mativi” which means “sides”, “embankments” or “valleys”, and the prefix “ka” though not grammatically correct is a diminutive therefore “little.
In the years around 1800AD the local Nambia and Tonga people are believed to have used this region as a trade centre for salt and fish to the visiting Rozvi people from the North and Nguni people from the South,then later with the Portuguese missionaries
