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Zimbabwe’s artisanal gold miners risk being poisoned with mercury (Hg)

Gold is integral to Zimbabwe’s economyArtisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)[i]...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

How did COVID-19 happen?

This question of how the virus managed to make the transition from animals to humans still leaves...

Category:

Other

Province:

Harare

Sandawana emeralds are amongst the most beautiful and sought after in the world

This article is based upon a number of articles listed in the reference section but most of the...

Category:

Geological

Province:

Midlands

Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

The previous year the pioneer column on 11 July 1890 had crossed the Shashi River at the beginning...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

This rotten Law does Zimbabwe no credit at all; Tendai Biti says, “Not even Apartheid Rhodesia passed such repugnant law”

How did this oppressive piece of legislation come about?At the same time as President Mnangagwa...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Rhodes Stables

These fine late Victorian Stables are on the west boundary of Rhodes Estate Preparatory School, now...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.