A Zambian Town in Colonial Zimbabwe: The 1964 "Wangi Kolia ...
In March 1964 the entire African labour force at Wankie Colliery, "Wangi Kolia", in Southern Rhodesia went on strike. Situated about eighty miles southeast of the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, central Africa's only large coalmine played a pivotal role in the region's political economy.