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Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners, popularly known as makorokoza, risk their lives to make a decent living

SourcesThis article is a very abbreviated summary from the following publications which readers may...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Midlands

The Kirby family and their Salvation Army connection in early Rhodesia with the Pearson Settlement Farm from 1920 and the Howard Institute from 1923 (Part 1 of 2)

Leonard Andrew Kirby, the father of the author of this article is referred to as “Dad,...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Kenneth Kaunda who died on 17 June 2021 aged 97; the last of Africa’s true Independence leaders and one of the few that stepped down

Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia following Zambia’s independence in 1964 and the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

BackgroundMuch of the material quoted below is sourced from the comprehensive articles by Ana Roque...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland Central

Transparency International’s latest Index of Public Services Corruption

Transparency International released the latest version of their annual Corruption Perceptions Index...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1870 after Lobengula granted a verbal mineral concession and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 2

IntroductionPart 2 covers the journey Baines made to the northern goldfields for the second time in...

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.