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The death of Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917)

IntroductionThis article concentrates on the end of Selous’ life. Two names on the Great War...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Antonio Fernandes, probably the first European traveller to Zimbabwe in 1511 - 12

His life as we know it is summed up by Hugh Tracey in his Rhodesiana article: “Brought to...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Harare’s oldest House at 110 Livingston Avenue, Harare

IntroductionThe information in this article is mainly sourced from the informative article by Peter...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Kenneth Kaunda who died on 17 June 2021 aged 97; the last of Africa’s true Independence leaders and one of the few that stepped down

Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia following Zambia’s independence in 1964 and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Transparency International’s latest Index of Public Services Corruption

Transparency International released the latest version of their annual Corruption Perceptions Index...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.