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Zimbabwe’s illicit Gold Market hinders the country’s development

BackgroundAlmost all the information below is sourced from the Global Initiative against...

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Cultural

Province:

Midlands

The British South Africa Company

IntroductionThis article explores the preliminary manoeuvres prior to the formation of the British...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Could this breakthrough ‘that changes the course of public health history’ help Zimbabwe defeat the menace of malaria?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the go-ahead for the launch of an effective malaria...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Gore was a greedy man

By Darwin ChakabvaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

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

The Great Zimbabwe Hill Complex in photographs - 2025

The Hill Complex from the valleyThe Great Zimbabwe site is dominated in the north by a...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

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.