During the Zimbabwean government 's '' Gukurahundi '' campaign against the Ndebele population of southern Zimbabwe in the 1980s , the disused mine workings at Antelope Mine were the site of a concentration camp run by the Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwean Army . Many prisoners were reported to have been killed and their bodies thrown down the mineshaft . On two instances in 1996 and 1999 , skeletal remains believed to be of executed ZAPU prisoners were discovered in the abandoned mineshaft
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi
Antelope Mine