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Frederick Courteney Selous’ hunting trips from 1876 – 1885 with records from his original game book

BackgroundFrederick Courteney Selous needs no introduction to readers interested in the history of...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

This interview with Fenella Redrup was included in the souvenir brochure Occupation of Matabeleland...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Central Cave

The Central cave to the west has a long line of animals painted across it with over 30 images...

Category:

Rock Art

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The death of Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917)

IntroductionThis article concentrates on the end of Selous’ life. Two names on the Great War...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

George ‘Joros’ Westbeech’s influence in the lower Zambesi Valley and his 1885-1888 diaries

George Westbeech did keep a diary but sadly most of it has been lost except for those parts...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Pit Structures

The number of pit structures that have been found is estimated to number into many hundreds. They...

Category:

Ruins

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.