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15 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.

Aloe inyangensis

The plant is strictly confined to woodland and wet forest on mountain sides above 1500 m altitude from just north of Nyanga southwards to Mount Rupere and Mount Ruinji near Stapleford in northern Manicaland.

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 Bridge

The Chirundu Bridge now consists of two road bridges side by side across the Zambezi River between the small town of Chirundu, Zambia and the village of Chirundu, Zimbabwe.

Common flat lizard

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

Crispen Chakanyuka

Born in the Guruve district, Chakanyuka completed his schooling in 1960, and traveled to Nyanga to look for work.

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).

Human trafficking in Zimbabwe

During 2007, the government allocated land to IOM to establish a second reception center in Plumtree for Zimbabweans deported from Botswana.

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.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 850

Both parties were urged to begin the contraction and demobilisation of their forces and military personnel to Nyanga, Zimbabwe and to dispatch the first newly-trained elements of the Mozambican Defense Force.

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.

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.


Alexandra Park, Harare

Alexandra Park is the name of a low density leafy residential suburb in the North of Harare, Zimbabwe.

Allen Larue

One of his first games for the Seychelles came in the 2004 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Zimbabwe.

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.

Beta Cephei

The star is nevertheless visible to most observers throughout the world reaching as far south as cities like Harare in Zimbabwe, Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia or other settlements north ± 19° South latitude.

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.

Brachystegia glaucescens

The name is for instance found in a paper concerning the degradation of woodlands by elephant predation and fire in the northern part of the Gonarezhou National Park in SE Zimbabwe.

Chirundu

Chirundu Bridge, connecting Chirundu, Zambia with Chirundu, Zimbabwe

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.

Eastgate Centre, Harare

The Eastgate Centre is a shopping centre and office block in central Harare, Zimbabwe whose architect is Mick Pearce.

Elias Fund

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

Enough Is Enough

Zvakwana (Shona for "Enough is Enough"), an underground movement in Zimbabwe

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."

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.

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.

Joseph Ngwenya

Ngwenya attended the Mzilikazi High School in Bulawayo, leading them to the 1999 Zimbabwe National High School Championship, before moving to the United States in 2000 to attend and play college soccer at Coastal Carolina University.

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.

Marist Brothers Secondary School Dete, Zimbabwe

Marist Brothers Secondary School (MBSS), otherwise referred to as 'Marist Dete' is an elite co-educational (mixed) boarding secondary school located in Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province province.

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.

Mike Shuster

Prior to working for NPR, he was a United Nations correspondent for Pacifica News Service where he covered the election of Robert Mugabe in 1980 in Zimbabwe.

Mike Tichafa Karakadzai

It named Karakadzai as a key player in arranging a January 2001 deal with John Bredenkamp's Tremalt whereby Tremalt obtained copper mining resources in the DRC at a nominal price in exchange for paying a share of proceeds to the governments of the DRC and Zimbabwe.

Mount Pleasant, Harare

Mount Pleasant is the name of a residential suburb in the northern part of Harare, Zimbabwe.

Nathalie Pownall

The same year Tutuma was commissioned to perform Zimbabwe's first production of Closer (play) by British Playwright Patrick Marber play at HIFA - Harare International Festival of the Arts.

P. magnus

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

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.

Ronald Duncan

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

Ryan Butterworth

Ryan Eric Butterworth (born 14 April 1981) is a Zimbabwean cricketer who plays for the Mashonaland Eagles.

Sodomy law

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has waged a violent campaign against homosexuals, claiming that before colonization Zimbabweans did not engage in homosexual acts.

Solar Cookers International

Since 1995, SCI has managed or co-managed solar cooking projects in the Nyakach district, Kenya; in the Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya; in the Aisha refugee camp, Ethiopia; in various communities, Zimbabwe; and in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya.

South African Class 34-600

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

St Faith's School, Rusape

St Faith's School, Rusape is a mission school 17 km from Rusape, Manicaland, Zimbabwe.

Taita Falcon

Threats to the species come from the use of organochlorine pesticide sprays in northern Zimbabwe which may have reduced numbers there, and pesticide-spraying (e.g. through operations to control Red-billed Quelea and locusts) may pose a threat in other regions.

Tendai Chatara

Tendai Larry Chatara (born 28 February 1991 at Chimanimani, Zimbabwe) is an international cricketer who represents the Zimbabwe national cricket team.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

The soundtrack featured songs by Zimbabwe's most popular musicians, including Thomas Mapfumo, Leonard Zhakata and Andy Brown.

Typhlops fornasinii

Fornasini's blind snake has been found in southern Mozambique, South Africa (Zululand), and southeastern Zimbabwe.

United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe

An embassy in Harare was established on April 18, 1980—independence day for 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.

Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth of Nations

British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary David Miliband and outgoing Secretary-General Don McKinnon both expressed their approval of Zimbabwe's return to the Commonwealth if the country resolved its infringements of the Harare Declaration, especially under a new government.

Zimbabwe Grounds

It is surrounded by Old Highfield section on the greater part and share borders with Takashinga cricket ground (home ground of Andy Flower and Tatenda Taibu), Zimbabwe Hall, Highfield Library, a Nursery School, Anglican Church and Chipembere Primary School annexe.

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.