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1896-7 Rebellion Memorials

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

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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

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Article – When Bulawayo was young

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

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Big game hunters in present-day Zimbabwe until 1880

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

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

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Bulawayo in the 90’s

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

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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

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

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By Zeederberg Coach to Bulawayo in 1895

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Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage

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Early Mail Services

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Early traveller’s impressions of Gubulawayo

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Fenella Redrup who danced the Polka with Cecil Rhodes

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

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

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

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Hillside Dams

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

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

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

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Khami – capital of the Torwa state

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Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

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National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum, Bulawayo

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Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe at Bulawayo

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Old Jesuit Mission

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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)

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Rebellion days in Bulawayo: When the Matabele rose in 1896

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Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town

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

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Rinderpest

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Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

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Snatched from death in a flooded river

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The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

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The Great Dance or Inxwala Festival

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The Hanging Tree

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The Jameson Raid

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The Matabele Campaign of 1893 - the march on Bulawayo

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

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The Story of the Pioneer Press: Progress by Rhodesian Newspapers

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The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

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

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The arrival in Bulawayo of the first train

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

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

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The old Transport Road

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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

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The system of Local Government in Southern Rhodesia

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The victorious march of the Salisbury and Victoria Columns into Matabeleland

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

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

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Two of Lobengula’s Relics

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Veterans of the 1893 Occupation of Matabeleland

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Were Lobengula and the amaNdebele tricked by the Rudd concession?

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Why Lobengula sent envoys to Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century

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William Finaughty (1843 – 1917) one of the great elephant hunters who knew both Mzilikazi and Lobengula and brought the two ship’s cannon now at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo.

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

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