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The Southern Column’s skirmish at the Singuesi river on 2 November 1893 revisited

Why has so little been written about the Southern Column’s campaign?Many readers may not be...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The British South Africa Company – establishing an administration in the early days of the occupation of Mashonaland

IntroductionThe core of this article is a paper by Honest Elias Koke entitled Unfulfilled Promises...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

The Railway comes to Bulawayo – the town’s festivities in November 1897

The railway reached Bulawayo at about 3pm on the afternoon of Tuesday 19 October 1897. On that...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1928)

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1828) first commander of what became...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

BackgroundMuch of the material quoted below is sourced from the comprehensive articles by Ana Roque...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The 1896 siege of Belingwe, now Mberengwa as told by David Tyrie Laing

This account from Tyrie Laing’s book The Matabele Rebellion, 1896 with the Belingwe Field...

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.