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Zimbabwe timeline Pre 200 ADZimbabwe is populated by groups of San hunter-gatherers...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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

The development of the Mineral industry

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Mashonaland West

How the Ox-Wagon and transport-rider opened up this country

So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

The Victoria Cross (VC) medal recipients connected with this country

The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The British South Africa Company and the impact of early gold mining regulations on smallworkers

In most parts of Southern Africa the landowner had the sole right to prospect on their farm, but...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Midlands

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.