Chakari

Chakari is a mining village in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe, about 33 kilometres west of Chegutu and 38 kilometres north of Kadoma. At the 1982 census it had 8,415 residents. The village grew up around the Turkois Mine in 1907 and took its name from the mine; it was renamed Shagari in 1911 and then given its present name in 1923. Gold is still extracted at the Dalny Mine, counted among the largest gold producers in the country, and the surrounding red soils support crops including maize, wheat, sorghum, barley and cotton. Chakari therefore combines an active mining economy with farming on mineral rich ground.