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Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Some backgroundThomas Leask (1839 – 1912) was born at Aglath, Stenness in the Orkney Islands...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Gubulawayo, or Old Bulawayo (1870 – 1881) and the Indaba Tree

Below is a time line of the sequence of events, particularly in relation to the sites of the king...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings; an article on their extent and meaning

This article on Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings (often referred to in older writings as...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Masvingo

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

The part played by religion in the Mashona Rebellion (First Chimurenga) in 1896-7 as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7

Both this article and the article The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

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.