Rituals, rites and rumours: how women claim power in Zimbabwe’s informal gold mines
By Jabulani Shaba, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Groningen
Sandra Swart, Professor of History, Stellenbosch University
In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held spiritual power over mines.
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