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Manemba Cave

On the far left of the panel are lines of figures, some carrying heavy sticks on their shoulders, a...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland East

World’s View Matobo, Rhodes’ grave and the Shangani Memorial

Cecil Rhodes, Dr Leander Starr Jameson, Charles P.J. Coghlan, Allan Wilson and the remains of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

Are there cultural links between Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe?

introductionAccording to Thomas Huffman Mapungubwe (meaning ‘Hill of the Jackals’) was...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Zimbabwe’s political leadership belongs to the old order; it’s time they were replaced by new leaders like Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema

IntroductionIn 2025 Maia Sandu, Moldova’s President was nominated The Telegraph’s World...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The history of the Chiota tribe

By Patience TuhweThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

The story of a Trooper’s experiences in the Imperial Yeomanry and Rhodesia Field Force during the second Boer War 1899 - 1902

Boer War disasters for the British Army resulted in the formation of the Imperial YeomanryThe...

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.