Zimbabwe Field Guide

Harare

81 sites

Historic

Administration and Government 1889 – 1953

Harare

Other

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

Harare

Cultural

Avondale Flea Market

Harare

Cultural

Avondale and the story of Countess Billie

Harare

Other

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

Harare

Cultural

Cattle: the life-blood of Shona Society

Harare

Cultural

Chapungu Sculpture Park and Doon Estate

Harare

Scenic

Chiremba / Epworth Balancing Rocks

Harare

Game Park

Chivero Conservation Program operated by Four Faces for Zimparks

Harare

Scenic

Cleveland Dam

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Other

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

Harare

Scenic

Domboshava Cave and Hill

Harare

Cultural

ENACT’s Report on Corruption in Africa and Zimbabwe

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Cultural

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

Cultural

Gallery Delta

Harare

Other

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

Scenic

Harare Toposcope

Harare

Cultural

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

Harare

Building

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

Harare

Building

Harare’s Historic buildings – The Kopje Area

Harare

Building

Harare’s Historic buildings – the Avenues

Harare

Historic

Harare’s oldest House at 110 Livingston Avenue, Harare

Harare

Cultural

Henry Borrow, after whom Borrowdale is named

Harare

Scenic

Henry Hallam Dam (also called Harava Dam)

Harare

Other

How did COVID-19 happen?

Harare

Other

How did Zimbabwe’s economy get so bad?

Harare

Other

Is Zimbabwe a dictatorship?

Harare

Cultural

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

Scenic

Kuimba Shiri Bird Sanctuary

Harare

Scenic

Lake Chivero Recreational Park

Harare

Rock Art

Lake Chivero Rock Art

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Historic

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1928)

Harare

Game Park

Lion Park

Harare

Scenic

Makumbe Cave and Lower Makumbe Cave

Harare

Other

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

Harare

Game Park

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

Harare

Historic

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

Harare

Cultural

Mugabe divorce papers expose their vast wealth

Harare

Scenic

Mukuvisi Woodlands Wildlife and Environment Centre

Harare

Cultural

Museum of Human Sciences

Harare

Scenic

National Botanical Gardens

Harare

Cultural

National Heroes Acre

Harare

Scenic

Ngomakurira

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Cultural

Politics and thievery mean the same thing in Zimbabwe

Harare

Cultural

Ranche House (1899) - Ken and Lillian Mew

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Rock Art

Rock Art at Glen Norah East & West

Harare

Cultural

Roora and Marriage

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Historic

The British South Africa Company

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Historic

The Charles Burrell Steam Traction Engine / Road Locomotive

Harare

Cultural

The Loyal Women’s Guild and the Pioneer Memorial Crosses

Harare

Building

The Market Hall (1893 – 94)

Harare

Historic

The National Archives

Harare

Historic

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

Harare

Historic

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Harare

Historic

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

Harare

Historic

The Rhodesia Air Training Group (RATG) 1940 – 1945

Harare

Historic

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

Historic

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

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Cultural

Traditional Ceremonies which persist

Harare

Cultural

Transparency International’s latest Index of Public Services Corruption

Harare

Cultural

UDI rebellion: Rhodesia defies the world

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Other

What are the origins of the current coronavirus pandemic?

Harare

Geological

What is the Chinese Motivation in Zimbabwe?

Harare

Cultural

When THIEVES fall out, honest men come by their own

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare

Other

Zimbabwe in the sights of China’s debt-trap diplomacy

Harare

Cultural

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

Harare