Bindura

Bindura is a city and the administrative capital of Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe, in the Mazowe Valley about 88 kilometres northeast of Harare. It was first named Kimberley Reefs after a gold mine opened in 1901 and renamed Bindura in 1913 when the railway arrived; the name is probably an Anglicised form of the Shona phrase pindura mhuka, meaning turn the game. The Bindura Nickel mine, now called Trojan Nickel Mine, mines nickel, copper and cobalt and runs a smelter refinery just south of the town, and cotton and maize are grown intensely in the region. The first basic school opened in 1912. The 2022 census counted 50,400 people.