Mukarakate

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Mukarakate is a place in the north-eastern Murehwa district of Zimbabwe. The district is in Mashonaland East province of Zimbabwe, and is sometimes spelt as Mrehwa, Murewa or Mrewa. It is almost entirely inhabited by Shona-speaking people (specific dialect: Zezuru). The traditional rulers of the area are the Nhowe people, whose chieftainship is called Mangwende. A lot of the Nhowe people use Mukarakate as a surname, because it is the name of the of a great-great-ancestor of the tribe. Their totem is 'Moyo Muzukuru', which uses the bull as its symbolic animal. However, in practice, the tribe strictly holds only the heart of the animal as sacred, not the whole animal.

In modern day Zimbabwe, the surname is still widely used in the area.

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