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The death of Cecil John Rhodes at his Muizenberg cottage in 1902

Rhodes in 1901From March to May in 1901 Rhodes was at Kimberley overseeing De Beers business and...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Baden-Powell in Matabeleland during 1896 where he learned the principles of Scouting

IntroductionRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 1941) (he pronounced his...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

The Southern Column’s skirmish at the Singuesi river on 2 November 1893 revisited

Why has so little been written about the Southern Column’s campaign?Many readers may not be...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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

Khame (previously Khami) Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

BackgroundGreat Zimbabwe between 1300 to 1500AD was the largest settlement in sub-Saharan Africa,...

Category:

Ruins, Cultural, Building

Province:

Bulawayo

Globe and Phoenix Mine Manager’s House

Diana Polisensky tells us that Mr R.J. Allwright was its first resident and began its extensive...

Category:

Building

Province:

Midlands

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.