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There was a basic similarity between the way in which Rhodesian colonial historians looked at the central Shona chimurenga (rising) of 1896 and T. O. Ranger's seminal Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896–7: both thought in terms of a pre-planned conspiracy led by religious authorities and a simultaneous outbreak on a given signal.
- David N. Beach
- 1979
- Bindura
- Post Office
- Postmarks
Mazoe District Bindura was originally named Kimberley Reefs after the gold mine which was opened in 1901. It changed its name to Bindura on 1st March, 1913 when the railway arrived. Bindura is probably an Anglicised version of the Shona Phrase, pindura mhuka, meaning “turn the game.” The first basic school in Bindura opened in 1912. It is now the a...
Mail service was originally by coach to Jumbo Mine, then by rail to Salisbury. In April 1913, the mail service was by rail to Salisbury. Between 1935-36, it was a weekly motor service to Salisbury. Harold William Groom (1893-1967) was the Post Master of Bindura in the early years and is noted as a postal official serving in World War I. 1. 1913.03....
106 BOOK REVIEWS. might, if the work of C. G. Chivanda ("The Mashona Rebellion in Oral Tradi-tion: Mazoe District, " unpublished seminar paper, University College, Salis -bury) is any indication, have been of very great assistance. What emerges from.
May 13, 2014 · Yet, since the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, very little fresh research has been carried out on the subject. This paper re-examines the role of Shona religious authorities in the rising, especially that of the medium of the Nehanda spirit of the Mazowe valley in the central Shona area.
- David N. Beach
- 1998
I was born in 1964 in the so-called North Eastern War Front of Rhodesia in Mazoe district, which witnessed the heaviest fighting in the war of liberation of Zimbabwe. One day in 1972 as we...
For example, the five chiefdoms of the western Mazoe District—Chiweshe, Hwata, Makope, Negomo and Nyachuru—were pushed into the Chiweshe Reserve. The Hwata people were moved off the Mazoe Citrus Estates in 1922 and a group of
Jul 31, 2021 · Mapondera was born in the 1840s and spent most of his life in the upper and middle Mazowe valley until in about 1894 he embarked on a career that reached its climax in 1901 when he and a large group of allies fought a pitched battle with the Rhodesian colonial authorities that led to his trial and imprisonment.
