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Gonarezhou National Park

Masvingo

Zimbabwe loses €16m EU Aid and another great opportunity as our politicians shilly-shally over land reform

Masvingo

1896-7 Rebellion Memorials

Bulawayo

A Native Commissioner’s life in the Sebungwe District prior to World War I

Matabeleland North

A Success story…Zimbabwe relocates wildlife from Savé Valley Conservancy to Sapi Reserve within the Mana-Sapi-Chewore biosphere

Masvingo

A Visit to Lobengula at the King’s Kraal or Umvutcha in 1889 – Lieutenant-Colonel H. Vaughn-Williams recalls his stay after 57 years

Bulawayo

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 1)

Midlands

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 2)

Midlands

A description of the old Meikles Hotel, the Mill and Coach House and Coaching Stables and Strickland’s Store on Marshbrook Farm (now Charter Estates) in Charter District (PART 3)

Midlands

A letter written by Frederick Courteney Selous to his mother on 25 December 1878 from Inyati Mission

Matabeleland North

A look at present-day Marula, between Bulawayo and Plumtree

Matabeleland South

A rainmaking ceremony and the burial of a Chief

Masvingo

A veteran’s account from the Battle of Bembesi in 1893 and when Joe Smith knocked down Cecil Rhodes and saved his life in 1896

Bulawayo

Administration and Government 1889 – 1953

Harare

Africa’s National Parks in the midst of a pandemic-induced conservation crisis

Harare

An 1886 journey through the Bechuanaland Protectorate along the Western Old Lake Route to the Victoria Falls that nearly ended in disaster

Matabeleland North

An Avenue of Kapok Trees outside Shamva

Mashonaland Central

An Introduction to the significance of Mapungubwe

Masvingo

An analysis of Roora

Mashonaland East

An explanation for the Y-shaped rock art motifs found on Nottingham Estate in the Limpopo-Shashi Valley

Matabeleland South

Anglo Boer War graves at Paradise Plot Cemetery, Marondera

Mashonaland East

Angwa (Ongoe) – Afro-Portuguese Feira sites in Mashonaland West

Mashonaland West

Antelope Park

Midlands

Antonio Fernandes, probably the first European traveller to Zimbabwe in 1511 - 12

Mashonaland Central

Arcturus Mine murders and payroll robbery in 1978

Mashonaland East

Arcturus village

Mashonaland East

Are there cultural links between Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe?

Masvingo

Arthur Shearley Cripps Shrine near Chivhu

Midlands

Article – When Bulawayo was young

Bulawayo

Avondale Flea Market

Harare

Avondale and the story of Countess Billie

Harare

Baden-Powell in Matabeleland during 1896 where he learned the principles of Scouting

Bulawayo

Bambata Cave - rock art paintings

Matabeleland South

Bats are not to blame for COVID-19; Chinese wildlife farms are and what the next pandemic might look like

Harare

Battle of Bembesi (called Egodade by the amaNdebele) on the 1 November 1893

Matabeleland South

Battle of Ntaba zika Mambo, Manyanga or Mambo Hills

Matabeleland North

Battle of Tshingengoma or Sikombo’s stronghold

Matabeleland South

Bernard Mizeki Shrine

Mashonaland East

Big game hunters in present-day Zimbabwe until 1880

Bulawayo

Birchenough Bridge

Manicaland

Blackwater Fever

Mashonaland West

Bridal Veil Falls, Chimanimani

Manicaland

Bulawayo and the Matabele Rebellion (or Umvukela) – Part 1, the first few weeks and the patrols sent to rescue outlying farmers, prospectors and storekeepers

Bulawayo

Bulawayo and the Matabele Rebellion (or Umvukela) – Part 2, after the first few weeks, a change in tactics

Bulawayo

Bulawayo in the 90’s

Bulawayo

Bulawayo rejects proposal for abattoir to export donkey-skins to China

Bulawayo

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo

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

Bulawayo

Bumbusi Ruin and Rock Engravings

Matabeleland North

Bunga Forest Botanical Reserve

Manicaland

Bushtick Mine, now the location for Falcon College, the independent boarding school in Matabeleland

Matabeleland South

Bvumba Mountains

Manicaland

Bvumba National Botanical Gardens (formerly Manchester Gardens)

Manicaland

By Zeederberg Coach to Bulawayo in 1895

Bulawayo

Canned Lion hunting and the horrible trade to the Far East in wild animal parts

Matabeleland North

Carl Peters and The Eldorado of the Ancients

Manicaland

Cattle and Social Status

Mashonaland East

Cattle are our Bank

Mashonaland West

Cattle: the life-blood of Shona Society

Harare

Chamavara Cave

Masvingo

Changing Chinese perceptions about elephant ivory

Midlands

Chapungu Sculpture Park and Doon Estate

Harare

Charles Trelawney ('Lion') Stevens gravesite

Mashonaland East

Chavadzimu rock art shelter

Mashonaland Central

Chawomera Fort

Manicaland

Chengeta Safari Lodge and Pamuzinda Safari Lodge

Mashonaland West

Chewore Fossil forest Site

Mashonaland West

Chewore Safari Area Dinosaur footprint Sites

Mashonaland West

Chief Chinengundu Mashayamombe’s stronghold, Fort Martin and Cemetery

Mashonaland West

Chief Tendai Mutasa's Indaba Tree, Penhalonga

Manicaland

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Central Cave

Mashonaland Central

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Northern Cave

Mashonaland Central

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Southern Cave

Mashonaland Central

Chikupo Rock Art Shelter – the Western Cave

Mashonaland Central

Chimanimani National Park

Manicaland

Chinese mining companies are causing turmoil in the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area

Mashonaland Central

Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park

Mashonaland West

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

Bulawayo

Chiremba / Epworth Balancing Rocks

Harare

Chirinda Forest and the Big Tree

Manicaland

Chirundu

Mashonaland West

Chishawasha Mission Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

Mashonaland East

Chisvingo and Nhunguza monuments, Masembura Communal Lands

Mashonaland Central

Chivero Conservation Program operated by Four Faces for Zimparks

Harare

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

Midlands

Chizarira National Park

Matabeleland North

Claremont Soapstone Sculptors

Manicaland

Cleveland Dam

Harare

Colin Harding – the man in charge of the execution of Chief Chingaira Makoni – his life and career in early Rhodesia

Mashonaland East

Contemporary criticism of the British South Africa Company (BSAC) in 1889 – 90 from Henry Labouchère the editor of the journal Truth

Harare

Corruption in Zimbabwe - Transparency International reveals the latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020

Harare

Could this breakthrough ‘that changes the course of public health history’ help Zimbabwe defeat the menace of malaria?

Harare

Crooks Corner

Masvingo

Cross Kopje, Mutare

Manicaland

Cyanobacteria levels in Harare’s water supplies is a bio-index for bad governance

Harare

Cyrene Mission

Matabeleland South

Dambarare – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site

Mashonaland Central

Dan Judson and the Africa Transcontinental Telegraph Co

Mashonaland Central

Danangombe Monument (formerly Dhlo-Dhlo Ruins)

Matabeleland South

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

Matabeleland South

Dengeni Cave

Masvingo

Development of the Rhodesia Railways

Midlands

Devil’s Pass and Fort Watts

Mashonaland East

Diana's Vow

Manicaland

Diana’s Pool and Embizeni Chalets

Matabeleland South

Domboshava Cave and Hill

Harare

Douglas Tannahill – a tribute to an artist and his connection with Shamva

Mashonaland Central

Dr Arthur H. Newnham’s personal account of the siege at Hartley Hill fort from 16 June to their relief by Capt White’s column on 22 July 1896

Mashonaland West

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 3 of 5 - From Sesheke to Bamangwato, including the Victoria Falls)

Matabeleland North

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 4 of 5 - From Palapye, formerly Palachwe, to Massi-Kessi, now Manica)

Masvingo

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa (Part 5 of 5 - From Massi-Kessi to Chinde via the mission stations of British Central Africa Protectorate, present day Malawi)

Manicaland

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa in 1891-2 (Part 1 of 5 - Benguela, Angola to the Barotse Valley)

Matabeleland North

Dr James Johnston’s account of a journey across Africa in 1891-2 (Part 2 of 5 - Arrival in the Barotse Valley)

Matabeleland North

Driefontein Mission

Midlands

Drought and then flood at Victoria Falls

Matabeleland North

ENACT’s Report on Corruption in Africa and Zimbabwe

Harare

Early European visitors to Hartley Hills goldfield

Mashonaland West

Early Mail Services

Bulawayo

Early traveller’s impressions of Gubulawayo

Bulawayo

Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on 13 September 1890

Harare

Ernest Hamilton South, the pioneer farmer who imported the 1903 Ivel tractor, now at the Mutare Museum, into Southern Rhodesia

Mashonaland West

Esigodini (formerly Essexvale)

Matabeleland South

Ewanrigg Botanical Garden – a tribute to its creator Basil Christian

Mashonaland East

Examining how the author Richard Nicklin Hall (1853-1914) justified his thesis that Zimbabwe’s gold mines were dug in ancient times by foreign miners

Harare

Examining the background of Poachers

Mashonaland West

Extracts from Frank Oates’ ox-wagon journey in 1873 from Tati to Gubulawayo

Matabeleland North

Felixburg

Masvingo

Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

Bulawayo

Field Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE and his connection with Matabeleland

Bulawayo

Figtree, or Fort Molyneaux and the 1896 Matabele Rebellion or Umvukela

Matabeleland South

Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings

Matabeleland South

First Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, KCB, DSO – the Great War engineer whose mine explosions at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917 were heard 240 kms away in London

Mashonaland West

First treks into Manicaland

Manicaland

Forbes’ retreat down the Shangani river in December 1893

Matabeleland North

Fort Charter

Midlands

Fort Gibbs and Sgt. William Maxwell's grave

Midlands

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

Mashonaland East

Fort Haynes and the fight at Chief Chingaira Makoni’s Kraal

Manicaland

Fort Hill – the first site of Umtali (now Mutare)

Manicaland

Fort Ingwenya and Cemetery

Midlands

Fort Que Que (now Kwekwe)

Midlands

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

Matabeleland South

Fort Tuli

Matabeleland South

Fort Umlugulu (previously Fort Nsezi, or Sugar-bush Camp) and the Cemetery

Matabeleland South

Fort Usher No. 3

Matabeleland South

Francisco Barreto’s military expedition up the Zambesi river in 1569 to conquer the gold mines of Mwenemutapa (Monomotapa)

Mashonaland Central

Frederick Courteney Selous’ hunting trips from 1876 – 1885 with records from his original game book

Midlands

Frederick Courteney Selous’ hunting trips from 1876 – 1885 with records from his original game book

Matabeleland North

Frederick “Freddy” Hugh Barber, hunter, trader, artist – visited the Victoria Falls in 1875 and Matabeleland in 1877

Bulawayo

Gaika Mine Manager’s house

Midlands

Gallery Delta

Harare

Gambarimwe Cave

Mashonaland East

George Westbeech and the road to Pandamatenga

Matabeleland North

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

Matabeleland North

Giraffe Petroglyph at Mtetengwe

Matabeleland South

Globe and Phoenix Mine Manager’s House

Midlands

Gonarezhou National Park to receive $1million-a-year from new Wildlife Fund

Masvingo

Gore was a greedy man

Mashonaland West

Great Zimbabwe – early written descriptions and photographs

Masvingo

Great Zimbabwe, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

Masvingo

Group Captain Harold Walmsley, Spitfire ace who destroyed at least 11 enemy aircraft; trained at Belvedere and Cranborne air stations during WWII and was an instructor at Heany air station afterwards – Obituary

Harare

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

Bulawayo

Gweru (formerly called Gwelo)

Midlands

Gweru Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

Midlands

Halfway House

Manicaland

Halfway House Agricultural Machinery

Manicaland

Harare Toposcope

Harare

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

Harare

Harare’s Historic buildings – Robert Mugabe Road (formerly Manica Road)

Harare

Harare’s Historic buildings – The Kopje Area

Harare

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Harare

Harare’s oldest House at 110 Livingston Avenue, Harare

Harare

Henry Borrow, after whom Borrowdale is named

Harare

Henry Hallam Dam (also called Harava Dam)

Harare

Hillside Dams

Bulawayo

Hope Fountain Mission

Matabeleland South

Horse riding in the Mavuradonha with Varden Safaris

Mashonaland Central

Hot Springs

Manicaland

How Mutare and Manicaland were annexed from the Portuguese

Manicaland

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

Mashonaland Central

How did COVID-19 happen?

Harare

How did Zimbabwe’s economy get so bad?

Harare

How the Ox-Wagon and transport-rider opened up this country

Masvingo

Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Matabeleland South

Hurungwe and Charara Safari Areas

Mashonaland West

Hwange National Park

Matabeleland North

Imire Game Park – Rhino and Wildlife Conservation

Mashonaland East

Inanke Cave

Matabeleland South

Inyati and the activities of the London Missionary Society in Matabeleland from 1859

Matabeleland North

Iron Mine Hill (Ntabasinsimbe) and the first casualty of the 1893 Matabele War

Midlands

Is Zimbabwe a dictatorship?

Harare

Italian Chapel of St Francis of Assisi

Masvingo

Ivon Fry’s reminiscences of Bulawayo and Lobengula in 1888 – 89

Bulawayo

Jabulani

Matabeleland South

Jack Parsonson – War ace and one of Mashonaland Country District’s most colourful characters

Mashonaland West

Jairos Jiri Association – the legacy of Zimbabwe’s greatest Philanthropist and an inspiration to all Zimbabweans

Bulawayo

James Dawson’s account of finding the remains of Allan Wilson and his patrol

Matabeleland North

James Theodore Bent and Mabel Virginia Anna Bent gave many artefacts to the British Museum from Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) collected during and after their excavation at Great Zimbabwe in 1891

Masvingo

John Bradburne – the former warden at Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre, a candidate for Sainthood?

Mashonaland East

Kadoma (formerly Gatooma) Steam Centre

Mashonaland West

Kariba Dam construction

Mashonaland West

Kariba Houseboat charters– something for everyone

Mashonaland West

Karl Mauch, explorer and geologist and the man who claimed to be the first European to visit Great Zimbabwe

Masvingo

Kazuma Pan National Park

Matabeleland North

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

Harare

Kentucky Farm Rock Art Site

Mashonaland West

Khame (previously Khami) Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

Bulawayo

Khami – capital of the Torwa state

Bulawayo

Kingsley Fairbridge – who was he?

Manicaland

Kuduland Lodge

Matabeleland South

Kuimba Shiri Bird Sanctuary

Harare

La Rochelle Country House and Spa, a National Trust of Zimbabwe property

Manicaland

Lake Chivero Recreational Park

Harare

Lake Chivero Rock Art

Harare

Lake Kariba

Mashonaland West

Lake Kariba Recreational Park

Mashonaland West

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) Recreational Park

Masvingo

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) Recreational Park

Masvingo

Lake Mutirikwi (formerly Lake Kyle) and the Dam Wall

Masvingo

Lalapanzi

Midlands

Land and the British South Africa Company - the Renny-Tailyour and Lippert concessions

Harare

Leopard Rock Hotel

Manicaland

Letters from the Siege of Ladysmith by Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe

Harare

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1928)

Harare

Lion Park

Harare

Lord Randolph Churchill’s visit to Rhodesia in 1891

Mashonaland West

Luanze Earthworks and Church

Mashonaland East

Macheke Rock Paintings

Mashonaland East

Madzimudzangara Cave

Mashonaland East

Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

Manicaland

Major Stabb’s hunting trip in 1875 to the Zambesi Valley via Gubulawayo

Matabeleland North

Makumbe Cave and Lower Makumbe Cave

Harare

Malaria kills a child every minute worldwide; will a new vaccine save them?

Harare

Mambo Rebellion Memorial – with three oral history accounts collected by Foster Windram in 1936 and 1938 concerning the killings at West’s store

Matabeleland North

Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Natural Site

Mashonaland West

Mana Pools update on the severe drought conditions in Zimbabwe killing elephant and wildlife

Mashonaland West

Manemba Cave

Mashonaland East

Manicaland, Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands

Manicaland

Manyanga (formerly Ntaba zika Mambo) Monument ruins

Matabeleland North

Maramuca, a Portuguese Feira dating from 1660 - 1680

Mashonaland West

Marange Diamonds – Zimbabwe’s natural resource stolen from the nation

Manicaland

Mare Dam

Manicaland

Mary Blackwood Lewis’s letters on her journey to Mashonaland from Beira 1897-1901

Manicaland

Mashona Rebellion / First Chimurenga 1896-7 graves at Old Marandellas (Ruzawi Cemetery)

Mashonaland East

Massapa (Baranda Farm) – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site in Mashonaland Central

Mashonaland Central

Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria)

Masvingo

Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

Bulawayo

Matendere Monument

Manicaland

Matobo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site

Matabeleland South

Matopos Railway Terminus

Matabeleland South

Matusadona National Park; African Parks in partnership with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (PWMA)

Mashonaland West

Matusadonha National Park

Mashonaland West

Memorial to Bertrand and Aleth de Guitaut

Matabeleland South

Minerals found in Zimbabwe and verified deposits

Midlands

Modern humans originated from Botswana, the ancestral homeland for all anatomically modern humans today, but left due to climate change

Matabeleland North

Mopane, a Hwange lion is wounded by a Bowhunter and like Cecil the lion left in agony for 24 hours before being killed

Matabeleland North

Morally and financially bankrupt Zimbabwe government forces Zimparks to sell elephant hunts to pay Game Rangers salaries

Harare

Mort's Tree

Matabeleland South

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

Harare

Mount Nyangani (formerly Mount Inyangani)

Manicaland

Mucheka Cave

Mashonaland East

Mugabe divorce papers expose their vast wealth

Harare

Mukuvisi Woodlands Wildlife and Environment Centre

Harare

Mumurgwe Hill, or Lion’s Head

Mashonaland Central

Murahwa’s Hill Nature Reserve

Manicaland

Murehwa Cave

Mashonaland East

Murray MacDougall Drive

Masvingo

Museum of Human Sciences

Harare

Mutarazi Falls National Park

Manicaland

Mutare (formerly Umtali)

Manicaland

Mutare Main Park Aloe Gardens

Manicaland

Mutare Museum

Manicaland

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

Manicaland

Mutoko (or Tere) Monument

Mashonaland East

Mvuma Chimney

Midlands

Mwanga Lodge and Bally Vaughn Bird and Game Sanctuary

Mashonaland East

My Matabeleland Experiences (1897-1903)

Midlands

Mzilikazi's Grave

Matabeleland South

National Botanical Gardens

Harare

National Heroes Acre

Harare

National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum, Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe at Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Next year will be better and the verse of ‘T’

Mashonaland Central

Ngezi Recreational Park

Midlands

Ngomakurira

Harare

Notorious kingpin of a Malawi wildlife crime syndicate, Yunhua Lin is jailed for 14 years

Mashonaland West

Nottingham Fly Camp

Matabeleland South

Nottingham Retreat

Matabeleland South

Nswatugi Cave - rock art paintings

Matabeleland South

Nurses Memorial

Manicaland

Nyahokwe Village

Manicaland

Nyaminyami, the Zambezi River God

Mashonaland West

Nyanga National Park

Manicaland

Nyangombe Natural Swimming Pool / Falls

Manicaland

Nyangwe Fort

Manicaland

Nyunteya Cave & Grain Bins

Matabeleland South

O.C. Rawson (1874 – 1953) of Darwendale

Mashonaland West

Oh dear, another foiled gold smuggling attempt is linked to the Zimbabwe President’s family

Midlands

Old Fort Hartley and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Mashonaland West

Old Jesuit Mission

Bulawayo

Old Umtali – the second site

Manicaland

Operation Noah Memorial

Mashonaland West

Orbicular Granite Formation

Matabeleland South

Origins and legends of the Shona-speaking people

Masvingo

Orton’s Drift over the Sebakwe River

Midlands

Our Covered Wagon Heroines

Matabeleland North

Ox-wagons

Manicaland

Painted Wolf; How did one of Zimbabwe’s most endangered wildlife species acquire so many names?

Mashonaland West

Patrick Campbell, husband of Mrs Patrick Campbell who went to Mashonaland and was killed in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Harare

Penhalonga

Manicaland

Penhalonga Church

Manicaland

Photographs taken by the Reverend F.H. Surridge during the Pioneer Column’s 1890 trek into Mashonaland

Masvingo

Pieter Lourens van der Byl’s grave at Mona Farm

Manicaland

Pilot Officer William (Bill) B Thomson – one of many aircrew who were part of the Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) and trained at Bulawayo to fly as Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR)

Bulawayo

Pink Elephants

Manicaland

Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

Masvingo

Pit Structures

Manicaland

Poaching and recent trophy hunting controversy

Masvingo

Politics and thievery mean the same thing in Zimbabwe

Harare

Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukele, 1896)

Matabeleland South

Postal service in 1890 – 1892; the post-stations from Fort Tuli to Salisbury

Masvingo

Pungwe Falls

Manicaland

Quentin Barnett’s childhood memories of life at Widgeon Ranch, Felixburg, Rhodesia 1956-1971

Masvingo

Ranche House (1899) - Ken and Lillian Mew

Harare

Re-examining the events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’

Masvingo

Rebellion days in Bulawayo: When the Matabele rose in 1896

Bulawayo

Reminiscences of Percy Durban Crewe of Nantwich Ranch, Hwange

Matabeleland North

Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town

Bulawayo

Rhodes Nyanga Estate

Manicaland

Rhodes Nyanga Historical Exhibition

Manicaland

Rhodes Nyanga Hotel

Manicaland

Rhodes Stables

Matabeleland South

Rhodes Summer-house

Matabeleland South

Rhodes first journey into Mashonaland in 1891 through Penhalonga

Manicaland

Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) – a high price was paid in young lives

Harare

Rhodes’ Apostles – who were they and what happened to them?

Harare

Rhodes’ Three Peace Indabas

Matabeleland South

Richard Frewen, the man who annoyed Lobengula and the consequent deaths of the Colonial government emissaries on their way to the Victoria Falls

Bulawayo

Richard Leakey, fossil hunter and champion of elephants

Matabeleland North

Rickshaws and rail-trolleys at Victoria Falls

Matabeleland North

Rinderpest

Bulawayo

Rock Art at Glen Norah East & West

Harare

Roora and Marriage

Harare

Ruchera Cave

Mashonaland East

Runde (formerly Lundi) River strip road

Masvingo

Rushwaya gold-smuggling case exposes a microcosm of the corruption that exists in Zimbabwe today

Midlands

Sandawana emeralds are amongst the most beautiful and sought after in the world

Midlands

Santa Barbara Chapel, Kariba

Mashonaland West

Sapi, Chewore, Dande and Doma Safari Areas

Mashonaland West

Saving the Pangolin from the Wildlife trade where they are being increasingly trafficked

Harare

Savé Valley Conservancy

Masvingo

Sebakwe Recreational Park

Midlands

Selous House (near Esigodini)

Matabeleland South

Sentinel Ranch Dinosaur Fossils

Matabeleland South

Shamva

Mashonaland Central

Sharing and family unity

Mashonaland East

Shona Religion

Mashonaland West

Silozwane Cave - rock art paintings

Matabeleland South

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

Snatched from death in a flooded river

Bulawayo

Some History on Chief Sileya (Shona: Chireya) and the Vashangwe community in the Sebungwe district

Matabeleland North

Some important Shona customs and ceremonies

Mashonaland Central

South Africa makes the correct decision on the future of wildlife including lion breeding, rhino horn and the elephant ivory trade

Matabeleland North

St Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mutirikwi, the smallest chapel in Zimbabwe

Masvingo

St Mary’s Church at Serima Mission

Masvingo

Strategies for minimising human – elephant conflict in Zimbabwe

Mashonaland West

Tengenenge Sculpture Village

Mashonaland Central

Terracing and Water Furrows

Manicaland

The 1561 martyrdom of Dom Gonçalo da Silveira, S.J.

Mashonaland Central

The 1880 journey of Rev Father Augustus Henry Law S.J. and others to Mzila’s kraal in south-eastern Zimbabwe

Manicaland

The 1893 Matabeleland campaign and the roles played by Jameson, Lobengula, Loch and Rhodes

Masvingo

The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

Bulawayo

The 1896 siege of Belingwe, now Mberengwa as told by David Tyrie Laing

Midlands

The 1903 Ivel Agricultural Motor No 141 in the Mutare Museum; one of only seven that still exist today

Manicaland

The Adendorff trek and the planned invasion of Banyailand

Masvingo

The Battle of Shangani (called Bonko by the amaNdebele) on 25 October 1893

Matabeleland South

The Beira and Mashonaland Railway – the Contractor’s stories

Manicaland

The Bent’s archaeological expedition to Great Zimbabwe in 1891 and the prominent part played by Mabel Bent

Masvingo

The Big Tree at Mountain Home Farm

Manicaland

The British South Africa Company

Harare

The British South Africa Company and the impact of early gold mining regulations on smallworkers

Midlands

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

Harare

The Carnegie Family – three generations in the country by 1933

Matabeleland South

The Cecil Kop Nature Reserve

Manicaland

The Charles Burrell Steam Traction Engine / Road Locomotive

Harare

The First Pioneers of Matabeleland; notes on the early Missionaries by Sir Robert Tredgold

Matabeleland North

The Great Dance or Inxwala Festival

Bulawayo

The Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe in photographs - 2025

Masvingo

The Great Zimbabwe Hill Complex in photographs - 2025

Masvingo

The Hanging Tree

Bulawayo

The Hunter’s Road - followed on maps

Mashonaland West

The Inodzi Gums – the tallest trees in Zimbabwe

Manicaland

The Jameson Raid

Bulawayo

The June 1896 Mazoe Patrol skirmish with detailed accounts from those besieged and their Mashona attackers

Mashonaland Central

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)

Mashonaland Central

The Kirby family and their Salvation Army connection in early Rhodesia with the Usher Institute from 1946 and the Tshelanyemba Institute in the Semokwe Reserve from 1948 – 1954 followed by international assignments in Northern Rhodesia, present-day Zambia

Matabeleland South

The Loyal Women’s Guild and the Pioneer Memorial Crosses

Harare

The Market Hall (1893 – 94)

Harare

The Matabele Campaign of 1893 - the march on Bulawayo

Bulawayo

The Matabele uprising or First Umvukela Indaba Site (Rhodes Indaba site)

Matabeleland South

The Mutapa (Mwenemutapa, Monomotapa) State in its heyday c.1480 – c.1623

Mashonaland Central

The Mzilikazi Memorial

Matabeleland South

The Naletale Monument (or Nharatare “straight-line “or Nhandare “stadium”)

Midlands

The National Archives

Harare

The Native Commissioner – the early years

Mashonaland Central

The Newton Commission conclusions on the ‘Victoria incident’

Masvingo

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Manicaland

The Old and the New

Mashonaland East

The Paper House (including the National Mining Museum)

Midlands

The Pink Map; how credible were Portuguese claims to Mashonaland and Manicaland before 1890?

Harare

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Harare

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

Harare

The Planet Arcturus railway line

Mashonaland East

The Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896) has now been vandalised

Matabeleland South

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

Mashonaland Central

The Railway comes to Bulawayo – the town’s festivities in November 1897

Bulawayo

The Restaurant that never took off

Mashonaland West

The Rhodesia Air Training Group (RATG) 1940 – 1945

Harare

The Save River (formerly Sabi)

Manicaland

The Selous Road from Fort Salisbury to Old Mutare and beyond

Mashonaland East

The Siege of Deary’s Store at Abercorn June 21st – July 13th, 1896

Mashonaland Central

The Southern Column’s skirmish at the Singuesi river on 2 November 1893 revisited

Matabeleland South

The Story of the Pioneer Press: Progress by Rhodesian Newspapers

Bulawayo

The Traveller’s Tree

Manicaland

The Victoria Cross (VC) medal recipients connected with this country

Mashonaland West

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Matabeleland North

The Victoria Falls Zambesi River sketched on the spot by Thomas Baines F.R.G.S.

Matabeleland North

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

Bulawayo

The Zambezi River

Matabeleland North

The Zambezi Society

Mashonaland West

The Zeederberg Coach Company and the first passenger services into the country

Bulawayo

The adventures and hardships of a shooting trip to Barotseland and the Victoria Falls in 1875 – 76

Matabeleland North

The arrival in Bulawayo of the first train

Bulawayo

The arrival of the AmaNdebele in Matabeleland and the succession of King Lobengula

Matabeleland South

The build-up to the 1893 Matabele War

Masvingo

The controversy in the early 20th Century over whether the stone structures in Zimbabwe were old and built by foreigners or comparatively recent and built by the Mashona

Masvingo

The death of Cecil John Rhodes at his Muizenberg cottage in 1902

Bulawayo

The death of Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917)

Matabeleland North

The decline of the Mutapa state c.1623 – c.1902

Mashonaland Central

The development of the Mineral industry

Mashonaland West

The first European Visitors to view the Victoria Falls before the end of 1880

Matabeleland North

The historic and world-renowned Cyrene Mission and its Chapel face the threat of an illegal settler invasion

Matabeleland South

The history of the Chiota tribe

Mashonaland East

The importance of the Ancestors and the installation of a Chief

Mashonaland Central

The inauspicious start to Herbert Taylor’s thirty-three year career as Chief Native Commissioner

Bulawayo

The naturalist Frank Oates who visited the Victoria Falls on 31 December 1874 and died only 36 days later of fever

Matabeleland North

The old Transport Road

Bulawayo

The ordeals in bringing the railway line from Beira to Umtali (now Mutare)

Manicaland

The part played by religion in the Mashona Rebellion (First Chimurenga) in 1896-7 as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7

Mashonaland East

The part played by religion in the Mashona Rebellion (First Chimurenga) in 1896-7 as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7

Harare

The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele Rebellion (Umvukela) as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7 and the shooting of the Mlimo

Bulawayo

The rise of the Mutapa State and the early arrival of the Portuguese c.1450 - c.1480

Mashonaland Central

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

Mashonaland West

The story behind Derick Hoste who died of blackwater fever at Hartley Hills in 1893

Mashonaland West

The story of a Trooper’s experiences in the Imperial Yeomanry and Rhodesia Field Force during the second Boer War 1899 - 1902

Mashonaland East

The story of a nurse and authoress travelling on the Selous Road through Mashonaland in 1896 during the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga

Mashonaland East

The system of Local Government in Southern Rhodesia

Bulawayo

The uses of cattle in Shona Society

Masvingo

The victorious march of the Salisbury and Victoria Columns into Matabeleland

Bulawayo

Thetford Game Reserve

Mashonaland Central

Thetford Game Reserve Rock Art Site

Mashonaland Central

This rotten Law does Zimbabwe no credit at all; Tendai Biti says, “Not even Apartheid Rhodesia passed such repugnant law”

Bulawayo

Thomas Baines and the Hartley Hills goldfield

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1869 that resulted in a mineral concession granted by Lobengula and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 1

Mashonaland West

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

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Matabeleland in 1871 to obtain a written mineral concession from Lobengula and his return through the Limpopo Valley - Part 3

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869 / 70 – background and travel by ox-wagon to Tati

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869/70: His first journey described in his diaries from Tati on 4 June 1869 until the 15 February 1870 (Vol 1)

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His first journey described from 16 February 1870 to 9 January 1871 (Vol 2)

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His second journey described from 16 May to 30 October 1871 (Vol 3)

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines watercolours and sketches from the Natural History Museum (London) with the relevant text from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869-1872) edited by J.P.R. Wallis - Part 4

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journey

Matabeleland North

Thomas Baines’ disastrous 1858-9 Zambezi Expedition with David Livingstone

Matabeleland North

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and his first two hunting trips into Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 and 1867

Bulawayo

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and “my last hunt” to Hartley Hills in 1870

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Harare

Thomas Leask’s elephant hunting trip to Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 from his diary

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask’s two journeys to the Zambezi in 1868 and 1869

Matabeleland North

Thomas Moodie’s Grave

Manicaland

Three Ceremonies for the Dead

Mashonaland Central

Three oral history statements made in 1937 by amaNdebele warriors present at the killing of Allan Wilson and thirty-three other Europeans on 4 December 1893 at the Shangani River

Matabeleland North

Thuli Safari Area

Matabeleland South

To what extent did slavery exist in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe?

Harare

Traditional Ceremonies which persist

Harare

Traditional Leaders in Zimbabwe are still seen as influential, but in all provinces citizens overwhelmingly want them to stay out of politics

Mashonaland Central

Transparency International’s latest Index of Public Services Corruption

Harare

Travel by Ox-wagon in the 1890’s – Lt-Col H. Vaughn-Williams recollections after 57 years

Matabeleland South

Traveller’s tales from the Devil’s Pass

Mashonaland East

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

Matabeleland South

Trek Memorial, Chimanimani (formerly Melsetter)

Manicaland

Troutbeck Inn

Manicaland

Tsindi Ruins (formerly called Lekkerwater Ruins)

Mashonaland East

Two of Lobengula’s Relics

Bulawayo

Types of Witchdoctors (N’angas)

Masvingo

UDI rebellion: Rhodesia defies the world

Harare

UK Parliament postpones the trophy hunting ban yet again

Matabeleland North

Umfurudzi Park

Mashonaland Central

Update on Matusadonha National Park

Mashonaland West

Utopia House, Mutare

Manicaland

Vasco Fernandes Homem and the search for the Mutapa state’s fabled gold mines 1574-5

Mashonaland Central