Editing Musina (section)

==History==
[[File:Copper-Papagoite-Quartz-tmu46c.jpg|thumb|left|Copper and [[Papagoite]] in Quartz, from old Messina mine.]]
After serving in the [[Second Boer War|Anglo-Boer]] War, Colonel John Pascoe "J.P." Grenfell (1866-1948), grandson of [[John Pascoe Grenfell]] and brother of [[Francis Octavius Grenfell]], came to South Africa after hearing rumours of valuable copper being in the area.<ref name=JP>{{cite news|title=Grenfell, Colonel John Pascoe|publisher=Biographical Database of Southern African Science|url=http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1144}}</ref><ref name=Francis>{{cite book|author=Paul Oldfield|title=Victoria Crosses on the Western Front August 1914 – April 1915: Mons to Hill 60|publisher=Pen and Sword|page=221|date=31 July 2014}}</ref> Two prospectors, James Harper and James Campbell, told Grenfell that there were copper deposits, south of the Limpopo River, where the local tribe discovered them.<ref name=JP/> Apparently, the tribe had mined the copper, but the prospectors said their mining of it had ceased.

Grenfell went to the area and had the deposits inspected.  After verifying that they were valuable, he purchased a farm, Berkenrode, near a planned mining site, in October 1903.<ref name=JP/> Five months later, he was granted a discoverer's certificate and, in that same month (March 1904), he founded the village Messina (later Musina).<ref name=JP/>

In January 1905, he founded, and chaired, the Messina ([[Transvaal (Province)|Transvaal]]) Development Company, which became one of the largest companies in South Africa.<ref name=JP/> Prior to becoming president of the United States, [[Herbert Hoover]], served on the board of the company from 1914 to 1916.<ref name=Hoover>{{cite news|title=Ajoite|publisher=Mindat|url=https://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,124530,308326}}</ref> Most people in Musina are either [[Venda people]] or [[Sotho people]]. Roughly 5% of residents in Musina are English-speaking Whites of [[British diaspora in Africa|British descent]], almost exclusively this portion of the population are [[White Zimbabweans]] who have relocated to [[South Africa]] since the year 2000.<ref>Diasporas from States in Crisis: A Case Study of the Zimbabwean Diaspora and Its Role in the Homeland by Leigh Ann Detwiler</ref>