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William Irwin, a casualty of the assault on Kunzwi's kraal, Mashonaland

In the churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Hayton, east of Carlisle, Cumberland, is...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

Harare’s Historic buildings – Robert Mugabe Road (formerly Manica Road)

Meikles BuildingsThe Meikle Brothers came to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1892. Stewart opened a...

Category:

Building

Province:

Harare

Carl Peters and The Eldorado of the Ancients

IntroductionCarl Peters (1856 – 1918) was a German explorer, author, self-publicist and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Nyahokwe Village

Evidence from excavations carried out on site show there has been occupation from hunter-gatherer...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Next year will be better and the verse of ‘T’

Hylda Richards and her husband Tom farmed in Kent before the tobacco boom of the mid 1920’s...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Ivon Fry’s reminiscences of Bulawayo and Lobengula in 1888 – 89

IntroductionIvon Fry’s reminiscences were written down by the Bulawayo Chronicle...

Category:

Historic

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.