Cultural

180 sites

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

Matabeleland North

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 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

An Introduction to the significance of Mapungubwe

Masvingo

An analysis of Roora

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

Bernard Mizeki Shrine

Mashonaland East

Big game hunters in present-day Zimbabwe until 1880

Bulawayo

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo

Bumbusi Ruin and Rock Engravings

Matabeleland North

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

Changing Chinese perceptions about elephant ivory

Midlands

Chapungu Sculpture Park and Doon Estate

Harare

Chinese mining companies are causing turmoil in the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area

Mashonaland Central

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

Bulawayo

Chishawasha Mission Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

Mashonaland East

Chivhu (formerly Enkeldoorn)

Midlands

Claremont Soapstone Sculptors

Manicaland

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

Cyrene Mission

Matabeleland South

Danangombe Monument (formerly Dhlo-Dhlo Ruins)

Matabeleland South

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 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

ENACT’s Report on Corruption in Africa and Zimbabwe

Harare

Early traveller’s impressions of Gubulawayo

Bulawayo

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

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

Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

Bulawayo

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

Matabeleland South

Forbes’ retreat down the Shangani river in December 1893

Matabeleland North

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

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

Matabeleland North

Gallery Delta

Harare

Gore was a greedy man

Mashonaland West

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

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

Harare

Henry Borrow, after whom Borrowdale is named

Harare

Hillside Dams

Bulawayo

Hope Fountain Mission

Matabeleland South

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

Masvingo

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

Matabeleland North

Italian Chapel of St Francis of Assisi

Masvingo

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

Bulawayo

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

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

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

Bulawayo

Kingsley Fairbridge – who was he?

Manicaland

Lake Kariba

Mashonaland West

Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria)

Masvingo

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

Matabeleland North

Mugabe divorce papers expose their vast wealth

Harare

Museum of Human Sciences

Harare

Mutare (formerly Umtali)

Manicaland

Mutare National Gallery of Zimbabwe at Kopje House

Manicaland

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

Nyaminyami, the Zambezi River God

Mashonaland West

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 Jesuit Mission

Bulawayo

Operation Noah Memorial

Mashonaland West

Origins and legends of the Shona-speaking people

Masvingo

Our Covered Wagon Heroines

Matabeleland North

Ox-wagons

Manicaland

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

Harare

Penhalonga Church

Manicaland

Politics and thievery mean the same thing in Zimbabwe

Harare

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

Masvingo

Ranche House (1899) - Ken and Lillian Mew

Harare

Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town

Bulawayo

Richard Leakey, fossil hunter and champion of elephants

Matabeleland North

Rinderpest

Bulawayo

Roora and Marriage

Harare

Santa Barbara Chapel, Kariba

Mashonaland West

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

Harare

Shamva

Mashonaland Central

Sharing and family unity

Mashonaland East

Shona Religion

Mashonaland West

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

Tengenenge Sculpture Village

Mashonaland Central

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 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 Carnegie Family – three generations in the country by 1933

Matabeleland South

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 Inodzi Gums – the tallest trees in Zimbabwe

Manicaland

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

Mashonaland Central

The Mzilikazi Memorial

Matabeleland South

The Native Commissioner – the early years

Mashonaland Central

The Old and the New

Mashonaland East

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

Bulawayo

The Story of the Pioneer Press: Progress by Rhodesian Newspapers

Bulawayo

The Zambezi Society

Mashonaland West

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

Matabeleland North

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

Mashonaland Central

The system of Local Government in Southern Rhodesia

Bulawayo

The uses of cattle in Shona Society

Masvingo

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

Bulawayo

Thomas Baines – more paintings from his Zambezi journey

Matabeleland North

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

Matabeleland North

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

Mashonaland West

Three Ceremonies for the Dead

Mashonaland Central

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

Traveller’s tales from the Devil’s Pass

Mashonaland East

Trek Memorial, Chimanimani (formerly Melsetter)

Manicaland

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

Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Natural Site

Matabeleland North

Was Archibald Ross Colquhoun; first Administrator of Mashonaland 1890 – 92, a failure or was he actively undermined by Dr Jameson?

Harare

When THIEVES fall out, honest men come by their own

Harare

When is the sickening trade in Lions going to be banned?

Harare

Which Zimbabwean individuals and companies have been sanctioned by the USA / UK?

Harare

Wildfires: Zimbabwe’s scourge

Mashonaland West

Witches and Witchcraft

Masvingo

World Wildlife Crime Report – Elephant Ivory

Masvingo

World Wildlife Crime Report – Pangolins

Masvingo

World Wildlife Crime Report – Rhino Horn

Masvingo

World Wildlife Crime Report: Trafficking in protected species 2020 - Overview

Masvingo

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

Matabeleland South

Zimbabwe’s artisanal gold miners risk being poisoned with mercury (Hg)

Midlands

Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners produce record output, but still face challenges

Masvingo

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

Midlands

Zimbabwe’s illicit Gold Market hinders the country’s development

Midlands

Zimbabwe’s political leadership belongs to the old order; it’s time they were replaced by new leaders like Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema

Harare

‘Matabele’ Wilson looks back on his time at Umvutcha kraal

Bulawayo