Musina

Messina is the northernmost town within the Republic of South Africa. It is placed in the municipality of the identical name in the province of Limpopo, just south of the river Limpopo at the border with Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean village of Beitbridge is twelve kilometers away. Both locations connect the Alfred Beit Bridge over the Limpopo. In 2011 Musina had 42,678 populations. The tribe of Musina Tshivenda, German copper as soon as observed this metal and settled right here. At the beginning of the 20th century, Europeans determined the huge copper deposits and founded the metropolis of Messina.

This call changed into changed in 2003. Copper mining has an extended culture. More than one thousand years before the primary Europeans got here to this location, there have been people here who had already gained copper, traded with seafarers on the Indian Ocean, and had a close relationship with the later Greater Zimbabwe and the fabled Munhumutapa Empire. About 40 kilometers west of Musina is the former buying and selling town Schroda. From right here, about 800 copper were transported to the Indian Ocean. At that time one handled East African and Chinese buyers.