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Bambata Cave - rock art paintings

Description of the archaeological excavations at Bambata CaveBambata cave was first explored in...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Re-examining the events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’

Gold fever prior to 1890Galbraith reminds us that the young men who made up the Pioneer Column in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

Inyati and the activities of the London Missionary Society in Matabeleland from 1859

Introduction Most of what follows is taken from two sources. The first is the Reverend William...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The inauspicious start to Herbert Taylor’s thirty-three year career as Chief Native Commissioner

SourceThe bulk of the information in this article is summarised from Roger Howman’s article...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Witches and Witchcraft

By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

Thomas Leask’s elephant hunting trip to Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 from his diary

IntroductionThomas Leask made the following journeys into the interior: Bechuanaland (1865)...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.