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Cattle and Social Status

By D.H. MakamureThese stories of Shona Customs were first published in 1970 and were amongst the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Mashonaland East

George ‘Joros’ Westbeech’s influence in the lower Zambesi Valley and his 1885-1888 diaries

George Westbeech did keep a diary but sadly most of it has been lost except for those parts...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland North

Two of Lobengula’s Relics

The fortieth anniversary of the occupation of Matabeleland was commemorated by an official...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Bulawayo

Italian Chapel of St Francis of Assisi

The Italian Church reminds us of a very little known episode in the history of Zimbabwe when...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

World’s View Matobo, Rhodes’ grave and the Shangani Memorial

Cecil Rhodes, Dr Leander Starr Jameson, Charles P.J. Coghlan, Allan Wilson and the remains of the...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Matabeleland South

David Tyrie Laing and the near-disaster Matobo Hills engagement in the 1896 Matabele Uprising or Umvukela

The accounts below are based primarily on David Tyrie Laing's book The Matabele Rebellion...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Matabeleland South

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.