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19 unusual facts about Zimbabwe


Agnes Nyanhongo

A native of Nyanga, Nyanhongo is the daughter of first-generation sculptor Claud Nyanhongo and sister of Gedion Nyanhongo, and spent much time helping in her father's studio as a girl.

Amon Mwareka

Born in Nyanga, Mwareka was educated at a mission, and began modeling clay and carving wood as a hobby early in life.

Chirundu

Chirundu, Zimbabwe, village on the southeast bank of the Zambezi river

Common flat lizard

In males from Trelawney, Zimbabwe, their backs are uniform red, also with whitish spots.

Eddie Masaya

Born in the Nyanga district, Masaya showed little interest in sculpture until, while at school, he found a copy of The African Times containing an article about Zimbabwean stone sculpture.

Feock

Feock, Zimbabwe, a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

Forest cobra

The brown colour phase occurs in coastal and high altitude forest, woodland and thicket, and grassland areas (i.e. Nyanga, Zimbabwe).

Honde Valley

Approaching from Mutare, the turn-off is about 50 km along the road towards Nyanga.

Inkankezi River

Inkankezi River is a river in Insiza District, in Zimbabwe.

Mbuma Mission Hospital

Mbuma Mission Hospital is a community hospital in Mbuma, which is a remote village within Nkayi District, Matabeleland North (province).

Michael Berridge

Born in Gatooma in Southern Rhodesia, Berridge gained a BSc in zoology and chemistry at the University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury (1960), where his interest in insect physiology was stimulated by Eina Bursell.

Plumtree School

The school is on an expansive campus at the edge of Plumtree town.

Sam Mtukudzi

In the early hours of Monday, March 15, 2010, Sam and his sound engineer, Owen Chimhare, died in a car crash while traveling back to Norton near Harare.

Solomon Skuza

Solomon Skuza (born 1956), also known as Jah Solo was a Zimbabwean musician, one of the most popular to come out of Plumtree.

Born in 1956 in Plumtree, Solomon Skuza rose to prominence as one of Zimbabwe's top musicians.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 882

The formation of the Mozambican Defense Force and the full-scale training in Nyanga, Zimbabwe of troops from the Government and RENAMO.

Victoria Falls Bridge

As the river is the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, the bridge links the two countries and has border posts on the approaches to both ends, at the towns of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Livingstone, Zambia.

Vila Salazar

Sango, Zimbabwe (the former official name of the village is 'Vila Salazar')

Zimbabwe-Rhodesia

He formed a joint government with Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, who was a Minister without Portfolio.


102 Squadron SAAF

The squadron area of responsibility is from north of Polokwane (Pietersburg) to the Limpopo River and is used for reconnaissance flights along the South African and Zimbabwe and Botswana borders.

April 2007 in Africa

In Zimbabwe investigating officer Wellington Ngena accuses the Government of South Africa's Scorpions intelligence department of training members of the Movement for Democratic Change in combat to overthrow the Government of Zimbabwe.

Binga District

a point on the Zimbabwe-Zambia international boundary at map reference 35KPM098348 on the 1:50 000 Map Sengwa Sound 1628C3, Edition 2, southwards direct to a point on the former Sengwa River course at map reference 35KPM114145 on the 1:50 000 Map Chiwa 1728A1, Edition 2;

Blouberg Nature Reserve

Although it is an ideal stop over for the Tuli Block in Botswana, the Mapungubwe National Park in Zimbabwe or the northern part of Kruger Park, the reserve is worth a proper visit even by itself.

Chirundu

Chirundu Bridge, connecting Chirundu, Zambia with Chirundu, Zimbabwe

Chitakatira High School

Chitakatira High School is a co-educational school from form One to Sixth form located on the outskirts of Mutare, Zimbabwe about 23 kilometers from the City of Mutare.

Chiwoniso Maraire

When she moved back to Zimbabwe she attended Mutare Girls' High School and took evening classes at the University of Zimbabwe, where her father was teaching.

CHNU-DT

Following an initial three-year run that included feature interviews with the likes of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, author Salman Rushdie, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Shirin Ebadi, and HRH Prince Edward, the program was replaced in June 2008 with The Daily when S-VOX took over ownership of the station from Rogers.

Christoffel Nortje

Professor Nortje has spoken extensively in Maxillofacial Radiology scientific meetings in Hungary, Italy, USA, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Bangkok, Thailand, China, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Cricket in Zimbabwe

In May 2007, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard declared his opposition to the political situation in Zimbabwe and the conduct of the Mugabe government by formally blocking the proposed tour to Zimbabwe in September 2007, by the Australian cricket team after discussions with Australian players.

Dan Gertler

Billy Rautenbach, another Zimbabwe businessman, had formerly owned Boss Mining.

Danny Stannard

Danny Stannard, an Irishman who had spent most of his life in southern Africa, succeeded Ken Flower as head of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organization under Robert Mugabe and later became manager of the Zimbabwe cricket team and head of security for the Zimbabwe Cricket Union.

Drakensberg

The absence of the Great Escarpment for about 450 km (280 miles) to the north of Tzaneen (to reappear on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique in the Chimanimani Highlands), is due to a failed westerly branch of the main rift that caused Antarctica to start drifting away from Southern Africa during the break up of Gondwana about 150 million years ago.

Dynamos F.C.

Originally founded in 1963 after a merger between two lesser teams in Mbare, Harare Township, Rhodesia, the side quickly became one of the strongest in the Rhodesian league, and by the recognition of the country's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980 had become the country's most successful team, having won six national titles.

Elias Fund

In 1994, Elias Sithole, a gardener in Zimbabwe, met American songwriter Chad Urmston.

Erismatica

Erismatica is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family containing only one species, Erismatica erythropis, which is known from Zimbabwe.

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

Grace Mugabe

Grace was previously married to Stanley Goreraza, an air force pilot, and now working in the Zimbabwe embassy in China.

Great Zimbabwe

Tudor Parfitt described Gayre's work as intended to "show that black people had never been capable of building in stone or of governing themselves", although he adds: "The fact that Gayre... got most of his facts wrong, does not in itself vitiate the claims of the Lemba to have been involved in the Great Zimbabwe civilisation."

Harare International Festival of the Arts

Organising and facilitating a festival the size of HIFA in the difficult sociopolitical and economic conditions that characterise Zimbabwe today is no easy task.

Ian Buckett

He had made his first try scoring appearance for a Wales XV in Swakopmund in Namibia in 1990, his second at altitude in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1993 and his last appearance against Ontario in 1997.

ICC 6 Nations Challenge

The 2000 tournament was played in Harare, Zimbabwe, the hosts being represented by Zimbabwe A. They were joined by Kenya, and four European teams; Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands and Scotland.

Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001

This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013.

Inyathi High School

Inyathi High School (formerly, Inyathi Secondary School and prior to that Inyathi Mission) is a boarding co-educational secondary school in Inyathi, Zimbabwe.

Jairos Jiri Association

A philanthropic organisation set up in 1950 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) to support and train disadvantaged people.

Kubi Indi

In 1989 she produced I Am the Future, a film about a young woman (played by Stella Chiweshe) who travels to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural areas.

Manchester Road Race

Philemon Hanneck, born in Harare, Zimbabwe, but now a United States citizen, is a 2-time winner and course record holder at the Manchester Road Race.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Mark Hewlett

The family then moved back to their native Zimbabwe in 1980 and then to neighbouring South Africa in 1987, where Hewlett attended secondary school in Durban.

Matabeleland North Province

The region of Matabeleland, of which Matabeleland North is a part of, is characterized by generally inhospitable land when compared to other parts of Zimbabwe.

Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park

‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ comes from the Kololo or Lozi language and the name is now used throughout Zambia, and in parts of Zimbabwe.

P. magnus

Paragomphus magnus, a dragonfly species found in Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Peter Garlake

Peter Garlake (1934 - 2 December 2011) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria.

Peter Greer

He also served as a technical adviser for Self-Help Development Foundation (CARE Zimbabwe) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

President of Rhodesia

Following the Lancaster House Agreement, Britain resumed control of the rebel colony, and appointed Lord Soames as Governor until the country became independent as Zimbabwe on 18 April 1980.

Regis Chakabva

Following the readmission of Zimbabwe to Test cricket in 2011, he made his Test debut against New Zealand at Bulawayo in November that year, keeping wicket and scoring 37 and 5 batting at number seven.

Ronald Duncan

Duncan was born, with the surname Dunkelsbühler, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), in 1914.

Sakubva High School

Sakubva High School is a day school located within Sakubva high density township in Mutare, Zimbabwe.

South African Class 34-200

The Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR), commissioned on 1 September 1999, operates the Beit Bridge to Bulawayo line in Zimbabwe.

Vungwi Primary School

It is along the road between Cha Cha Cha Township or, Donga Town Ship and Tongogara High School in Shurugwi Rural Areas under the chieftainship of Chief Nhema.The school was known for its academic excellency during the late 80s and early 90s when it was used to attain a pass rate of 100% on the national grade 7 examinations set by the Ministry of Education, Zimbabwe.

Wilson Sitshebo

After positions in Zimbabwe posts he was a tutor at the United College of the Ascension Selly Oak before his ordination to the episcopate in 2001.

Yvonne Vera

In 1995, Vera returned to Zimbabwe and in 1997 became director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, a gallery that showcases local talent ranging from that of professional artists to school children.

Zimbabwe Grounds

The Zimbabwe Grounds are famous for having hosted Robert Mugabe's ZANU party's "Star Rally" in 1979.

Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council

The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council is a parastatal under the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture, responsible for the administration of public examinations in Zimbabwean schools.

ZW

.zw, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Zimbabwe