Gatooma
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Gatooma
a city on the Bulawayo-Salisbury railroad in Southern Rhodesia. Population, 16,700 (1967), including 2,400 Europeans. The city is the center of a gold-mining region and the focus of the country’s cotton industry. Gatooma has clothing, metalworking, and flour-milling industries.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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In 1997, an international conference on community service orders in Africa was held in
Kadoma, Zimbabwe. The Kadoma Declaration, which also was adopted by the United Nations, called for greater use of community service based on a highly successful model developed in Zimbabwe.
The leading players in the movement to devise alternatives in sub-Saharan Africa met in
Kadoma, Zimbabwe, in 1997.
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