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Dr Arthur H. Newnham’s personal account of the siege at Hartley Hill fort from 16 June to their relief by Capt White’s column on 22 July 1896

AcknowledgementI am extremely grateful to Philip Crennell who spotted the article on the Hartley...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Hanging Tree

Lyn Mullin writes that the hanging tree is an average-sized specimen of a false Marula, or Lannea...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Traditional Ceremonies which persist

By Dominic M. MandazaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Nyunteya Cave & Grain Bins

Grain-bins are relatively common in the Matobo Hills, a World Heritage Site in south western...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

IntroductionThis article does not attempt to describe in any detail all the feiras that were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

James Dawson’s account of finding the remains of Allan Wilson and his patrol

The final stages of the 1893 occupation of MatabelelandOn 29 October 1893 King Lobengula sent a...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

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.