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The Rhodesia Air Training Group (RATG) 1940 – 1945

Places are referred to by their names in 1940: Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Northern Rhodesia (...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The adventures and hardships of a shooting trip to Barotseland and the Victoria Falls in 1875 – 76

The following account is from the diary[i] of Norman MacLeod (entries are in Italics) and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The Loyal Women’s Guild and the Pioneer Memorial Crosses

In the five years of writing articles for my website, I have come across a few of the remaining...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Marange Diamonds – Zimbabwe’s natural resource stolen from the nation

AcknowledgmentsMuch of the basic content of this article owes its origin and details to the work...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Manicaland

Types of Witchdoctors (N’angas)

By Emmanuel Asaph Tony NapataThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Bulawayo rejects proposal for abattoir to export donkey-skins to China

IntroductionProposed plans for a donkey abattoir in Bulawayo have been turned down to the relief of...

Category:

Other

Province:

Bulawayo

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.