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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

Examining how the author Richard Nicklin Hall (1853-1914) justified his thesis that Zimbabwe’s gold mines were dug in ancient times by foreign miners

IntroductionHall’s thesis that the gold mines found throughout then Southern Rhodesia, now...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Some important Shona customs and ceremonies

By Peter SangoThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the best...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

The Matabele Campaign of 1893 - the march on Bulawayo

Dr Jameson may have decided on 18 July 1893 that the only solution was a military one, [i...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Oh dear, another foiled gold smuggling attempt is linked to the Zimbabwe President’s family

Some months ago, we reported that on 26 October 2020 Henrietta Rushwaya was caught at Robert...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

Thomas Baines and the Hartley Hills goldfield

For general background refer to the article Pre-Colonial Mining in Zimbabwe on the website www....

Category:

Historic

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.