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Iron Mine Hill (Ntabasinsimbe) and the first casualty of the 1893 Matabele War

Situated some 58 kilometres from Gweru on the railway line to Masvingo is a remote siding called...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

Kazuma Pan National Park

The park is situated in the north western corner of Zimbabwe between Kazungula (the border to...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Photographs taken by the Reverend F.H. Surridge during the Pioneer Column’s 1890 trek into Mashonaland

Background to Reverend F.H. SurridgeReverend Frank Harold Surridge (10 June 1862 – 4 May 1947...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Dr Arthur H. Newnham’s personal account of the siege at Hartley Hill fort from 16 June to their relief by Capt White’s column on 22 July 1896

AcknowledgementI am extremely grateful to Philip Crennell who spotted the article on the Hartley...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Oh dear, another foiled gold smuggling attempt is linked to the Zimbabwe President’s family

Some months ago, we reported that on 26 October 2020 Henrietta Rushwaya was caught at Robert...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Rhodes Stables

These fine late Victorian Stables are on the west boundary of Rhodes Estate Preparatory School, now...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

Welcome

One of the purposes of this website is to reassure visitors that the whole of Zimbabwe, including those remotest corners, are safe to travel.

The only way that today’s visitors and residents of Zimbabwe can appreciate the jigsaw puzzle of Zimbabwe’s history is by visiting and by walking through these silent sites and examining them and reading the excellent site descriptions and brochures that are available which I would encourage NMMZ to keep expanding. If this guide helps those visitors a little in understanding the background information then the effort in preparing it will have been repaid.

Each article gives a breakdown of sites by area and by category on what there is to see, and each location has detailed directions on how to get there and the reasons to make a visit. This is being added to all the time, but if you know of a site that you cannot find here, please let me know through the contact form.

Although I have included the details of game lodges and tented camps, that does not mean I endorse them as this is a non-commercial site. I simply want visitors and residents to know what is available and, in any case, these places are an essential part of the typical visitor's wildlife experience of Zimbabwe.