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Wildlife hero from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s Amos Gwema won the 2020 Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award sponsored by the Nick Maughan...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Zimbabwe on World Elephant Day 12 August 2021

Today we are reminded that conflict between people and wild animals is one of the main threats to...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Matabeleland North

Dr Arthur H. Newnham’s personal account of the siege at Hartley Hill fort from 16 June to their relief by Capt White’s column on 22 July 1896

AcknowledgementI am extremely grateful to Philip Crennell who spotted the article on the Hartley...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Examining the background of Poachers

This article takes its inspiration from a report by Sadé Moneron, Adam Armstrong and David Newton...

Category:

Game Park

Province:

Mashonaland West

Gallery Delta

Gallery Delta’s formative years were at Strachan’s building in Manica Road from 1975,...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

Photographs and descriptions of all the principal individuals involved in this article are given in...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

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.