Inyathi (also known as Enyathi, Inyati, UMzinyathi, and Emhlangeni) is a village located in the Bubi District of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe that grew from colonization by missionaries in the late 19th century.

[5] Reverend Robert Moffat of the London Missionary Society (LMS) traveled from Kuruman with a string of ox-drawn carts[citation needed] to visit King Mzilikazi in 1854, 1857, and 1859 with a proposition to build a Mission on his lands.

[citation needed] The LMS viewed Inyathi as a failure for many years due to the inability of missionaries to convert its people to Christianity.

[3] During the last decade of the 19th century, however, the colonizers began seizing power, first by attempting to smother the importance of the iziNduna, then by creating their own police force.

[3] According to Cullen Reed, a missionary from another settlement, young girls were "burning sores in their skin to imitate contagious diseases to avoid the attentions of white men.