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Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

This interview with Fenella Redrup was included in the souvenir brochure Occupation of Matabeleland...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The Planet Arcturus railway line

The most comprehensive descriptions of this 2 foot (61 cm) light railway is to be found in Robin...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

Photographs and descriptions of all the principal individuals involved in this article are given in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Article – When Bulawayo was young

This article comprises items in brief from early newspapers included in the Occupation of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Group Captain Harold Walmsley, Spitfire ace who destroyed at least 11 enemy aircraft; trained at Belvedere and Cranborne air stations during WWII and was an instructor at Heany air station afterwards – Obituary

Harold Walmsley who died on 4 April 2021 aged 98 years has an obituary that is note-worthy for at...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Zimbabwe in antique maps of South Eastern Africa

In Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia, a general atlas of the world is the first map of Africa....

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.