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Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

No women were included amongst the Pioneers, but it soon became clear they would be needed for...

Category:

Historic, Building

Province:

Harare

Bulawayo’s 40th Anniversary in 1933 celebrating the 1893 occupation of Matabeleland

This was commemorated with the publication of the Occupation of Matabeleland: A Souvenir and...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Nyahokwe Village

Evidence from excavations carried out on site show there has been occupation from hunter-gatherer...

Category:

Ruins

Province:

Manicaland

Travelling by coach in 1890 by Major A.G. Leonard

Arthur Leonard commanded “E” Troop of the BSA Company Police which was stationed at...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journey

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journeyMuch of the detail of the Zambezi...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland North

The British South Africa Company – establishing an administration in the early days of the occupation of Mashonaland

IntroductionThe core of this article is a paper by Honest Elias Koke entitled Unfulfilled Promises...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Harare

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.