Masvingo
This article covers the year 1893 in detail, the preceding period is covered only generally as a...
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The articles on which this is based came from the website of the Journal of African Elephants (...
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30 March 1892. We reached Palachwe, present-day Palapye, the main town of the Mangwato (referred to...
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This article forms one of a series of six articles covering the 1893 Matabele War. It begins with...
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Gonarezhou[i] is Zimbabwe’s second-largest National Park has been selected to receive US$1...
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By Samuel GudzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Sydney NyatsanzaThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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By Emmanuel Asaph Tony NapataThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Ignatius M. ZvarevasheThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were...
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By Langton DoreThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...
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Gold fever prior to 1890Galbraith reminds us that the young men who made up the Pioneer Column in...
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IntroductionThe events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’ are included in the...
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IntroductionThis article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...
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Introduction This article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...
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IntroductionThis article almost entirely relies on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (...
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Background This website has highlighted the plight of Chinese farmed wildlife in previous articles...
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BackgroundThe Adendorff or Banyailand trek was made up of Afrikaners who ...
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Much of the detail, particularly quotes, contained below comes from the article by Dave Collis...
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Peter Garlake has argued that Great Zimbabwe’s ‘foreign origins’ that were put...
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This article on Zimbabwe’s dry-stone buildings (often referred to in older writings as...
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SummaryKarl Gottlieb Mauch (1837-75) was well-known in Southern Africa as the first European to...
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Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over...
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So quickly did land transport develop – the railway reaching Bulawayo in 1897 and Salisbury...
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My Grandfather, Thomas Wilkie Barnett, died on Alanberry Farm (neighbouring Widgeon Ranch) in March...
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PoachingThe current poaching situation has reached crisis proportions in many countries of the...
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Felixburg serves an area of small communal farms and commercial farms and small gold mines in...
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Serima Church, Hospital and School complex are situated within the Serima communal lands, south of...
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The most unusual feature of the shelter is a red and white painted line that emerges from a natural...
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When Stephanus Barnard, better known by his Shangaan nickname of Bvekenya "the one who...
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In 1900 there were no properly constructed roads in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and when travelling on...
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Murray McDougall travelled into Zimbabwe in 1906 exploring the Lowveld bush and hunting in the...
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The dam was constructed in 1960, the same year the Recreational Park was established. The primary...
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In the 1960’s Tom van Graan, the water bailiff at Lake Mutirikwi, started to build the Chapel...
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Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...
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The Italian Church reminds us of a very little known episode in the history of Zimbabwe when...
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Masvingo is Zimbabwe's oldest town; the Pioneer Column left from Tuli in the far south of...
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The Savé (pronounced Sah-vey) Valley Conservancy is located in the south-east lowveld, about 70...
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The Park's name means "sacred place of the elephants" or the “horn of the...
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The Recreational Park is 16,900 hectares in extent of which 9,300 hectares are occupied by Lake...
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Great Zimbabwe is undoubtedly sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most imposing early dry-stone...
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