Zimbabwe Field Guide | Information on Historic, Cultural and Wildlife sites in Zimbabwe

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Fort Rixon Rebellion Memorial (Matabele Uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

The memorial names the following civilians on the north face:To the memory of James Cunningham, his...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

Tsindi Ruins (formerly called Lekkerwater Ruins)

Peter Garlake reminds us that that stone enclosures, such as we see at Tsindi Hill, served a...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

This interview with Fenella Redrup was included in the souvenir brochure Occupation of Matabeleland...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Gubulawayo, or Old Bulawayo (1870 – 1881) and the Indaba Tree

Below is a time line of the sequence of events, particularly in relation to the sites of the king...

Category:

Cultural, Historic

Province:

Bulawayo

Kingsley Fairbridge – who was he?

Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (1885-1924), was the founder of a child emigration scheme to British...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Manicaland

Crooks Corner

When Stephanus Barnard, better known by his Shangaan nickname of Bvekenya "the one who...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Masvingo

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.