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Bulawayo in the 90’s

This article is taken from the Rhodes Centenary Supplement published by the Chronicle in Bulawayo...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

The June 1896 Mazoe Patrol skirmish with detailed accounts from those besieged and their Mashona attackers

GPS LocationsAlice Mine laager 17°30´44"S 30°57´33"EFort Mazoe 17...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

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

Kariba Dam construction

The concrete arch dam is 128 metres high and 633 metres along the crest. For many years the site on...

Category:

Building

Province:

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines watercolours and sketches from the Natural History Museum (London) with the relevant text from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869-1872) edited by J.P.R. Wallis - Part 4

IntroductionJ.P.R. Wallis in his introduction to Volume 1 of the Northern Goldfield Diaries of...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

The Old and the New

By Alois MavenekaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

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.