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The Rhodesia Air Training Group (RATG) 1940 – 1945

Places are referred to by their names in 1940: Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Northern Rhodesia (...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

Diana’s Pool and Embizeni Chalets

Situated within the Matobo Communal lands, the word ‘Embizeni’ (Place of the Pots) is...

Category:

Scenic, Cultural, Rock Art

Province:

Matabeleland South

Early European visitors to Hartley Hills goldfield

William “Curio” Harvey Brown describes how on 1st October 1890 the Pioneers were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1870 after Lobengula granted a verbal mineral concession and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 2

IntroductionPart 2 covers the journey Baines made to the northern goldfields for the second time in...

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

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

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.