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Cave/Hole Nyunteya Cave & Grain Bin

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Located in Zimbabwe :: Matabeleland South
Category: Land Mark :: Cave/Hole

Caves and shelters are hidden away in the rocks have always formed part of amaNdebele culture as secret places are known only to the local communities and as places to make medicine, or for rainmaking shrines and burial places. Their adaption as places to store grain surpluses during the AmaNdebele uprising or First Umvukela of 1896 showed a very flexible approach to the exigencies of the period. The BSA Company went to considerable lengths to seize and destroy grain supplies to starve the amaNdebele out of the Matobo and using grain bins in caves showed a clever and practical cultural adaption to the traditional forms of grain storage in the area.

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