Antelope Mine

Antelope Mine, now known as Maphisa, is a town in Matobo district, Matabeleland South province, Zimbabwe, about 114 kilometres south of Bulawayo and 14 kilometres south of Kezi. The village was named after a goldmine that operated from 1913 to 1919 on the site of ancient African workings, with the first claims pegged in 1894. The government granted Maphisa town status on 14 June 2024. Today it is a commercial centre for the Semukwa communal land, and the nearby Gulamela Dam irrigates a communal farming scheme. It is also a settlement area for Chewa people who came as labourers in the 1950s. During the Gukurahundi campaign of the 1980s the disused mine workings were used as an army camp where many prisoners were reported killed.