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IntroductionThe story of the Bents’ excavation at Great Zimbabwe is told in the article The...
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This article written by Benjamin ‘Matabele’ Wilson appeared in the publication of the...
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This article was written by Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold[1] and was published within the Occupation...
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This article is about the perils of maintaining the Telegraph line in 1893 with the incident...
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The railway reached Bulawayo at about 3pm on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 October 1897. On that day...
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This article comprises items in brief from early newspapers included in the Occupation of...
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The photograph below is of interest because it portrays four generations of family, three of which...
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The fortieth anniversary of the occupation of Matabeleland was commemorated by an official...
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This interview with Fenella Redrup was included in the souvenir brochure Occupation of Matabeleland...
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SourceMuch of the information in this article comes from the very comprehensive website Theodore...
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BackgroundI am grateful to Barry South, the grandson of Ernest South, who contacted me and sent the...
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Transparency International released the latest version of their annual Corruption Perceptions Index...
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This article is composed from a number of articles in NADA (The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs...
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IntroductionIn his autobiography, The Log of a Native Commissioner, Herbert Nassau Hemans (1871...
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Both this article and the article The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele...
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Part 1 of 2 is under Mashonaland Central.Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this...
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Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this article is referred to as “Dad,...
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How did this oppressive piece of legislation come about?At the same time as President Mnangagwa...
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IntroductionThis article concentrates on the end of Selous’ life. Two names on the Great War...
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BackgroundFrederick Courteney Selous needs no introduction to readers interested in the history of...
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A letter written by Frederick Courteney Selous to his mother on 25 December 1878 from Inyati Mission
What set Selous apart from the other sporting pioneers of Zambesia in the 187-80’s were his...
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Gold is integral to Zimbabwe’s economyArtisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)[i]...
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What’s the issue?Robert Mugabe’s 33 year-old daughter Bona Mugabe filed for divorce in...
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The recent Al Jazeera documentary called Gold Mafia, a four-part investigation by their...
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IntroductionThomas Leask made the following journeys into the interior: Bechuanaland (1865)...
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Introduction Most of what follows is taken from two sources. The first is the Reverend William...
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Background to the Great DanceThe Inxwala, or Great Ceremony, usually called the Great Dance, in the...
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A map of the approximate positions of the amaNdebele royal kraals of Kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula...
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IntroductionLieut-Col. H. Vaughn-Williams’ book A Visit to Lobengula in 1889 was published 57...
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AcknowledgementsThe Zambesi Mission itself is comprehensively covered in the book Journey to...
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The problem of wildfires is not peculiar to Zimbabwe alone, but Zimbabwe does has one of the worst...
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World-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, whose...
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BackgroundIn this report we look at the results of the ENACT report Africa Organised Crime Index...
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13 July 1892. They leave Massi-Kessi going east for 175 km (108 miles) because there has been...
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30 March 1892. We reached Palachwe, present-day Palapye, the main town of the Mangwato (referred to...
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31 January 1892. We made a long run today, from 7am until we reached Sesheke where Dr Livingstone...
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29 November 1891. “This morning, instead of starting, the carriers, led by two rascals, Bwete...
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IntroductionJames (Jas) Johnston funded the expedition himself, he believed this was the only way...
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BackgroundIn a recent survey by Afrobarometer[i] which examined Zimbabwean citizens’...
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Background to the current situationSources estimate that worldwide some 1.7 million trophies were...
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BackgroundAlmost all the information below is sourced from the Global Initiative against...
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By Alois MavenekaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Patience TuhweThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Samuel GudzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Darwin ChakabvaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Lamech MhondoroThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Peter SangoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...
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By Sydney NyatsanzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Taona T.H. ChabudapasiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Mlambo Manyezu MathiasThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Dominic M. MandazaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst...
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By Emmanuel Asaph Tony NapataThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Lydia JanhiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...
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By Jaison AndifasiThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Langton DoreThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Fidelis Bere-Chikara These stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By T.K.M. TsodzoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By D.H. MakamureThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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The following story of Otto Christian Rawson[i] ‘O.C.'s’ early life in Darwendale...
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Patrick Campbell, husband of Mrs Patrick Campbell who went to Mashonaland and was killed in the...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the go-ahead for the launch of an effective malaria...
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IntroductionThis article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...
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Introduction This article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...
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IntroductionThis article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...
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Background This website has highlighted the plight of Chinese farmed wildlife in previous articles...
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Singapore just banned ivory product sales; so will demand reduce?In Singapore sellers of elephant...
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IntroductionThe article The Rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450...
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The first limitation in writing any article on the Mutapa state is the absence of original and...
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Background: Masvingo High Court rules that traditional leaders should stay out of partisan...
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Where is the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area?Ask most Zimbabweans if they ever heard of the Mavuradonha...
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Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia following Zambia’s independence in 1964 and the...
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The background to the military expedition J. Boxer writes that there was no doubt that in seeking...
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Some months ago, we reported that on 26 October 2020 Henrietta Rushwaya was caught at Robert...
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How a ZANU-PF politician amassed wealth through corruptionHow did we learn about all this wealth...
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South Africa makes the correct decision on the future of wildlife including lion breeding, rhino...
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The organisation ranks 180 countries by how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. ...
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The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.Like Antonio Fernandes, Silveira was one of the...
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Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners, popularly known as makorokoza, risk their lives to make a decent living
SourcesThis article is a very abbreviated summary from the following publications which readers may...
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Pangolins are the most endangered mammal that you have never heard of. There are eight species of...
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E.E. Burke in the Foreword to Bethell’s Notes on South African Hunting says the story...
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The Daily Telegraph on 15 June 2020 carried an editorial promoting Michael Ashcroft’s newly...
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IntroductionCarl Peters (1856 – 1918) was a German explorer, author, self-publicist and...
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The first European Visitors to view the Victoria Falls before the end of 1880The list below...
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Frank Oates (1840 - 1875) was the quintessential Victorian naturalist; his discoveries are...
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The following account is from the diary[i] of Norman MacLeod (entries are in Italics) and the...
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Three hundred kilometres south of Victoria Falls are the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana – a...
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Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journeyMuch of the detail of the Zambezi...
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The Zambezi expedition There is no consistency in the Victorian descriptions of the 1858-9 Zambezi...
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IntroductionRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 1941) (he pronounced his...
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Hylda Richards and her husband Tom farmed in Kent before the tobacco boom of the mid 1920’s...
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In the five years of writing articles for my website, I have come across a few of the remaining...
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AvondaleEdward O’Connell Farrell (1850 – 1910)Edward O’Connell Farrell, a pioneer...
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AcknowledgementsA number of authors have used Henry Borrow’s letters in the past with...
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In pre-colonial times Gweru may have been one of the outposts of the Rozvi Empire and was almost...
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Shamva was originally called Abercorn, after James Hamilton, the second Duke of Abercorn (1838-1913...
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Most of the following article is abbreviated from Frank W. Sykes' book: With Plumer in...
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Esigodini is a village situated on the A6 National road to Beit Bridge and on the branch line from...
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So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...
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Background and establishment of the first Mission station at Inyati (now Inyathi)The Rev. Robert...
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For a summarised account of Mzilikazi’s life see the article on the Mzilikazi Memorial under...
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Grain-bins are relatively common in the Matobo Hills, a World Heritage Site in south western...
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The Memorial is on the site of Mzilikazi's royal town of Mhlahlandleia after he left Inyati and...
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Lyn Mullin and his colleagues in the Forestry Commission, Richard Barrett and Lisle Orpen and many...
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Lyn Mullin and his colleagues in the Forestry Commission, Richard Barrett and Lisle Orpen and many...
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Penhalonga Church is aligned east – west, with the sanctuary in the east and the Church porch...
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This article is made up of the accounts of early travellers who used the road through the Devil...
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Douglas worked for Zimbabwe’s agricultural extension service, Agritex for most of his career...
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List of Victims named on the Gweru MemorialNamesDate of DeathDetailsMilitary ...
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I would like to dedicate this article to the Rev Edward D. Hamer, who sadly died in 2012, and whose...
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My Grandfather, Thomas Wilkie Barnett, died on Alanberry Farm (neighbouring Widgeon Ranch) in March...
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HistoryChief Mbari lived on the site of Harare kopje before the occupation in 1890, his brother...
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Architect: Fr Richartz, Client: Society of Jesus, Builder: Jesuit Brothers and people of the...
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I am very grateful to Gary Haynes for letting me quote from his article cited at the end of...
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The large stand of over 5 hectares on the western side of the kopje given to Johnson, Heany and...
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In 1939 Canon Edward Paterson, an Anglican priest born in Scotland but raised in Johannesburg, was...
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The word Chipangali comes from the Chinyanja language in eastern Zambia where Viv Wilson began his...
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In the current economic climate where the Government’s priorities are elsewhere, disabled men...
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Below is a time line of the sequence of events, particularly in relation to the sites of the king...
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In 1879 the Jesuits made arrangements to establish missions to the north of the Limpopo River and...
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Originally opened in 1903 and called the Queen Victoria Museum, it mainly focuses on archaeology...
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Over 900 trees and shrubs of Zimbabwe are carefully grouped in sections to show the...
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The grandiose obelisk of National heroes Acre or simply Heroes' Acre, overlooking the town, was...
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Situated within the Matobo Communal lands, the word ‘Embizeni’ (Place of the Pots) is...
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The memorial names the following civilians on the north face:To the memory of James Cunningham, his...
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The modern Church in Zimbabwe has its beginnings in the Zambezi Mission run by the Society of Jesus...
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The pub was a neat and tidy timber bar of English style with posts reaching up to support shelving...
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In her excellent article, Mrs Dorothy Finn says that Cripps was not related to Lionel Cripps, or...
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Serima Church, Hospital and School complex are situated within the Serima communal lands, south of...
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In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...
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The Italian Church reminds us of a very little known episode in the history of Zimbabwe when...
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Masvingo is Zimbabwe's oldest town; the Pioneer Column left from Tuli in the far south of...
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The original village of Chimanimani was founded by Thomas Moodie in 1892, but in 1895 it moved...
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Ox wagons were the only means of transporting bulk goods before the arrival of the railway into...
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Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (1885-1924), was the founder of a child emigration scheme to British...
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The farm kiosk selling jam, chutneys and vegetables is also highly recommended
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The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare was opened in 1999 at Kopje House, a...
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Mutare (previously known as Umtali) is Zimbabwe's third largest city with a...
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Bernard Mizeki was born Mamiyeri Mitseka Gwambe in Inhambane, Mozambique in 1861, he left his...
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The Monument came under the custodianship of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe in 1936....
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Gallery Delta’s formative years were at Strachan’s building in Manica Road from 1975,...
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture emerged in the 1950’s under the active guidance of Frank McEwan,...
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The Avondale flea market is open seven days a week unlike its main rival the market at Sam Levy...
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Tengenenge is situated against the Great Dyke, seemingly a typical African village in the North of...
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In the 1880’s the area was known as Matsheumhlope, or White Stones, the site of one of King...
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The Museum office was the station building for Shamva from 1931 until moved and re-erected in...
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The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe came into being in 1901 as the Rhodesian Museum before being...
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BackgroundGreat Zimbabwe between 1300 to 1500AD was the largest settlement in sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second largest town after the capital Harare; it is twinned with...
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DescriptionThe main building is made up of two large platforms, the western one covering 900 square...
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Cecil Rhodes, Dr. Leander Starr Jameson and several other leading early white settlers, including...
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The top ten World sites include three from Africa; Victoria Falls, the great Rift Valley in Kenya...
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Few outside of conservation circles know the name Rupert Fothergill today, or remember the...
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The little Chapel of Santa Barbara is situated at the top of the hill known as Kariba Heights and...
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The isolated world of the Tonga people was torn apart from 1956 when the Governments of Northern...
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The Zambezi Society( www.zamsoc.org) conserving the wildlife and wilderness values of the...
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There are many stories that are put forward to explain the name Kariba. Local elders say that close...
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