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Letters from the Siege of Ladysmith by Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe

Background The article Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Our Covered Wagon Heroines

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

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Origins and legends of the Shona-speaking people

By Samuel GudzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Witches and Witchcraft

By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners produce record output, but still face challenges

The Victoria Gold belt situated south of Mt Cotopaxi and on...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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

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.