Zimbabwe Field Guide | Information on Historic, Cultural and Wildlife sites in Zimbabwe

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John Bradburne – the former warden at Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre, a candidate for Sainthood?

Born on 14 June 1921 in Cumbria, England, his father was an Anglican clergyman. When World War...

Category:

Cultural, Other

Province:

Mashonaland East

Mvuma Chimney

The chimney at Mvuma is visible from many kilometres away standing on a prominent kopje and...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

Chishawasha Mission Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

Architect: Fr Richartz, Client: Society of Jesus, Builder: Jesuit Brothers and people of the...

Category:

Cultural, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

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

Fort Umlugulu (previously Fort Nsezi, or Sugar-bush Camp) and the Cemetery

AmaNdebele tacticsThere is every reason to believe that the Matabele uprising or First Umvukela was...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Blackwater Fever

In his amusing and evocative book Percy M. Clark provides an insight into life at the Old Drift...

Category:

Other

Province:

Mashonaland West

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.