People✳ 1996
Chipo Matimba: the Zimbabwean pilot who opened the cockpit door
Chipo Matimba became one of the trailblazing women of Zimbabwean aviation, later flying Air Zimbabwe's historic all-women flight deck.
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People✳ 12 Nov 2015
Elizabeth Simbi Petros: the other captain in Zimbabwe's historic flight
Elizabeth Simbi Petros flew with Chipo Matimba in Air Zimbabwe's first all-woman Boeing 737 flight-deck crew.
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People✳ 3 Sept 2024
Tinotenda Nicole Bango: Zimbabwe's Paralympic flagbearer in Paris
Tinotenda Nicole Bango carried Zimbabwe's flag and ran the women's T47 100m at Paris 2024.
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People✳ 30 Aug 2024
Kudakwashe Chigwedere: a Zimbabwean in the 2024 Paralympic final
Kudakwashe Paidamoyo Chigwedere reached the men's T47 100m Paralympic final in Paris 2024.
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People✳ 8 Aug 2024
Makanakaishe Charamba: remember two Zimbabweans in that 200m final?
Makanakaishe Charamba made the Paris 2024 men's 200m final with fellow Zimbabwean Tapiwanashe Makarawu.
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People✳ 2024
Denilson Cyprianos: Zimbabwe's backstroke story in Paris
Denilson Cyprianos represented Zimbabwe in the men's 200m backstroke at the Paris Olympics.
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People✳ 2024
Stephen Cox: Zimbabwe even had a rower at Paris 2024
Stephen 'Steve' Cox represented Zimbabwe in the men's single sculls at the Paris Olympics.
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People✳ 10 Aug 2024
Isaac Mpofu: Zimbabwe's marathon finisher at Paris 2024
Isaac Mpofu finished 19th in the men's Olympic marathon in Paris, running 2:10:09.
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People✳ 2010
Edith WeUtonga: remember the sound of the Utonga bass?
The Zimbabwean bassist and singer released the Utonga album in 2010 and helped shape a distinctive live-band sound.
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People✳ 2005
Prudence Katomeni-Mbofana: the voice behind Jazz Invitation
Zimbabwean vocalist Prudence Katomeni-Mbofana performed for years with Jazz Invitation and appeared with the Cool Crooners.
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People✳ July 2022
Nyaradzo Hoto: the ranger the world recognised in 2022
Nyaradzo Auxillia Hoto received a 2022 International Ranger Award for her work protecting Zimbabwe's ecosystems.
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People✳ October 2024
Margaret Darawanda: Zimbabwe's 2024 Young Ranger honouree
The International Ranger Federation recognised Margaret Darawanda with a Young Ranger Award in 2024.
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People✳ 2023
Amos Gwema: the Zimbabwean who won Best Game Ranger in 2023
The African Conservation Awards named Amos Gwema the 2023 Best Game Ranger.
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People✳ 31 Jul 2023
Brenda Muchichwa: one of the skilled rangers protecting the Zambezi
African Wildlife Foundation profiled ZimParks ranger Brenda Tafadzwa Muchichwa for her conservation work on World Ranger Day 2023.
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Culture✳ March 2026
2026 Zimbabwe choirs: the Eisteddfod stages where 3,000 entries came alive
Zimbabwe’s National Institute of Allied Arts 2026 music programme recorded more than 3,000 entries, from African choirs and marimbas to school jazz bands.
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Culture✳ June 2026
Beitbridge Parish Choir: remember that 2026 choral win?
Beitbridge Parish Choir topped a 28-choir Masvingo Catholic diocesan competition, with its conductor also recognised.
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Learn✳ March 2026Zimbabwe national science fair results
USAP Community School: twenty science finalists, nine awards and one teacher recognised
A school progress report documents 20 finalists, nine major awards and teacher recognition at the 2026 Zimbabwe Science Fair.
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Innovate✳ 21 Sept 2026Robokorda competition overall winner (Zimbabwe-hosted event)
Milestone College: the 2026 agri-mine robotics team that impressed judges
Milestone College won the Robokorda International Robotics Competition in Zimbabwe with a prototype for agricultural and mining tasks.
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Play✳ June 2026
JCI City Zimbabwe: a US$10,000 grant for children and education
Junior Chamber International awarded a 2026 Crocodile Foundation grant to JCI City Zimbabwe's CHIDE community education project.
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People✳ 7 Jul 2026
JCI Zimbabwe in 2026: the young leaders building communities beyond the headlines
The chapter's midyear report documents GreenZi, entrepreneurship activities, training and the search for outstanding young Zimbabweans.
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Play✳ 2026
Rotaract Zimbabwe: recognising the young people who volunteer without fanfare
From club meetings to community service, Zimbabwean Rotaract members form part of a regional youth-service network whose projects deserve proper documentation.
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Play✳ 24 Feb 2026
A Zimbabwean Rotary connection helped bring clean water to 550 rural students
An international Rotary partnership supported a borehole and water tanks serving St. Ludger School near Marondera and its community.
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Talent✳ 17 Aug 2026
2026 Zimbabwe National Youth Games: a medal belongs to every province's story
Harare topped the Block 1 medal standings in Marondera, while athletes and coaches from all Zimbabwe's provinces competed across multiple sports.
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Talent✳ 23 Aug 2026
Tanaka Dziyanyi: Zimbabwean chess talent wins SADC rapid and blitz gold
Zimbabwe Chess Federation reported Tanaka Dziyanyi taking the SADC rapid and blitz honours at a 2026 Mozambique tournament.
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Talent✳ 23 Aug 2026
Shepherd Kukudzarema: Zimbabwe's 2026 Open Chess champion
Zimbabwe Chess Federation reported Shepherd Kukudzarema winning the sixth Minerva Zimbabwe Open in August 2026.
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Play✳ 25 Sept 2026
Rotary's 2026 book donation: four Zvimba schools and a new chapter of reading
A September 2026 report documents book donations by the Rotary Club of Harare Central to four rural primary schools in Zvimba.
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Talent✳ 31 Jul 1980
Zimbabwe's Golden Girls: every woman behind the 1980 hockey gold
The 16-player team won Zimbabwe's first Olympic medal in Moscow, and the first women's Olympic hockey gold.
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People✳ 17 Oct 2005
Cara Black: Zimbabwe's world-leading doubles tennis champion
With multiple Grand Slam doubles titles and a world No. 1 ranking, Cara Black created a distinguished Zimbabwean tennis legacy.
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Talent✳ July 2019
The Gems: Zimbabwe's unforgettable 2019 Netball World Cup debut
Zimbabwe's women's netball team brought song, energy and high-level competition to its first Netball World Cup.
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Talent✳ 19 Jul 2025
The Sables: Zimbabwe's 2025 return to Rugby World Cup qualification
Zimbabwe defeated Namibia in the Rugby Africa Cup final to qualify for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, returning after a 36-year absence.
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Culture✳ 1999
Jazz 105: the Harare venue that helped musicians find their stage
How Josh Hozheri's Jazz 105 and its festivals connected groups, young performers, school bands and bigger audiences.
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Culture✳ June 2015
The Book Café: Harare's gathering place for artists, poets and conversations
Remembering the cultural space and the musicians, writers and audiences who considered the Book Café a creative home.
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Talent✳ September 1988
Marshall Munhumumwe and the Four Brothers: the sound of Zimbabwean jit
From independence-era celebrations to BBC radio sessions, a Zimbabwean guitarist-driven sound travelled far beyond home.
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Culture✳ 2003
Urban grooves: the songs, studios and radios of a generation
A look back at Zimbabwe's urban grooves era, its collaborators, producers and the sound young people made their own.
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People✳ 1982
Josephine Matsika: a pioneer of ultrasound training in Zimbabwe
A published radiography history credits Josephine Matsika as the first Zimbabwean radiographer to receive specialist ultrasound training in 1981–82.
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Learn✳ 1984
1984: how Zimbabwe trained a generation of sonographers
The Harare School of Radiography was asked to begin specialist ultrasound training in 1984, helping services reach beyond one hospital.
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Innovate✳ 1989
Zimbabwe's open-heart surgery teams: an achievement in 1989
A peer-reviewed account documents how international cooperation and Zimbabwean clinicians established continuing open-heart operations in 1989.
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Heritage✳ February 2016
2016: the effort to restore open-heart surgery in Zimbabwe
After a long interruption, a February 2016 surgical programme at Parirenyatwa became an important attempt to rebuild services.
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Innovate✳ June 2026
Mpilo's cancer-care equipment: the medical engineers behind a 2026 milestone
Zimbabwean hospitals reported delivery and commissioning preparations for modern cancer-treatment equipment during 2026.
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Learn✳ 2025Zimbabwe national championship winner
Milestone College's FutureSight: making robotics more accessible
Manicaland's FutureSight team won Zimbabwe's 2025 World Robot Olympiad Senior national category with a locally adapted accessibility concept.
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Learn✳ 18 Sept 2026Zimbabwe national finals winner
Midlands State University robotics teams: a 2026 national podium
Team Apex Nexus won the 2026 Zimbabwe national Future Engineers Senior competition, while fellow MSU entrants placed third.
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LearnNational festival participation
From school stage to jazz festival: Prince Edward and Churchill bands
The Winter Jazz Festival offered Zimbabwean school ensembles a professional-facing performance space alongside established artists.
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Learn✳ September 2025International competition participation
Team Zimbabwe: representing deaf and hard-of-hearing innovators at FIRST Global
The 2025 FIRST Global team described overcoming hearing barriers while representing Zimbabwe at an international robotics event.
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People✳ 2021
Murray Pole Ndlovu: from Zimbabwe volleyball captain to coaching in Japan
The former Zimbabwe national volleyball captain carried his experience from Harare to professional clubs in Japan, becoming a head coach in 2021.
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Talent✳ June 2026
Tracy Njanji and Zimbabwe's women recognised in regional volleyball
Tracy Njanji received the women's MVP honour at the 2026 CAVB Zone VI championship, with three Zimbabwean teammates named in the event's Dream Team.
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Talent✳ 13 Jun 2026
Zimbabwe men's volleyball: the dramatic 2026 Zone VI final
The Zimbabwe men's volleyball team beat Zambia in a five-set final in Harare to win the 2026 CAVB Zone VI Nations Championship.
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People✳ 2021
Andy Flower: Zimbabwe cricket and the ICC Hall of Fame
A Zimbabwean wicketkeeper-batter who became his country's first inductee into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2021.
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People✳ 19 Jul 2026
Sikandar Raza: Zimbabwe's international cricket appearances record
In July 2026, the ICC reported that all-rounder Sikandar Raza had become Zimbabwe's most-capped international cricketer.
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People✳ May 2004
Tatenda Taibu: a 20-year-old Zimbabwean Test captain
Tatenda Taibu became the youngest Test cricket captain in history in 2004, holding the distinction until the record was broken in 2019.
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People✳ July 2026
Josephine Nkomo: captaining Zimbabwe women's cricket
Josephine Nkomo was confirmed as Zimbabwe women's national cricket captain in July 2026, with the team hosting South Africa later that year.
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People✳ 2016
Danai Gurira: Zimbabwean stories on Broadway and global screens
Raised in Zimbabwe, actor and playwright Danai Gurira wrote the Broadway play Eclipsed and played widely recognised film and television roles.
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People✳ 2008
Tongayi Chirisa: from Mr Bones 2 to international screens
Zimbabwean actor Tongayi Chirisa played Hekule in Leon Schuster's Mr Bones 2 and later appeared in Crusoe and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
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Talent✳ 2003
Roki: a voice in Zimbabwe's urban grooves generation
Singer and songwriter Rockford Josphats, known as Roki, helped shape Zimbabwe's urban grooves sound in the early 2000s.
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Places
Mutarazi Falls: Zimbabwe's highest waterfall
At approximately 762 metres, Mutarazi (Mtarazi) Falls is Zimbabwe's highest waterfall, descending from the Eastern Highlands into the Honde Valley.
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Innovate✳ 25 Sept 1996
1996: when cellular telephony began in Zimbabwe
NetOne traces its beginnings to 25 September 1996, before Econet opened Zimbabwe's first private mobile network in July 1998.
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Talent✳ 1983
Zimbabwe cricket's 1983 World Cup debut: a win over Australia
In Zimbabwe's first Cricket World Cup appearance in 1983, the team defeated Australia by 13 runs at Trent Bridge.
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Innovate✳ 2026
Nayeli Chinzou: the Arundel student turning waste into biodegradable plastic
A Zimbabwean science student researched a plastic alternative made with cow-dung fibre and an apple-waste-derived plasticiser, earning international recognition in 2026.
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Places
Binga: BaTonga culture, the Zambezi and living heritage
Explore a community whose story goes far beyond Lake Kariba: BaTonga memory, languages, local crafts, historical displacement and cultural institutions.
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Places
Hwange: a town, its miners, wildlife and the electricity powering Zimbabwe
More than a safari destination: Hwange brings together industrial heritage, local communities, national conservation and post-1980 energy milestones.
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People✳ 1994
Nigel Chanakira: building Kingdom and Zimbabwean financial entrepreneurship
An introduction to the Zimbabwean entrepreneur associated with the founding of Kingdom in 1994 and a changing financial-services sector.
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People✳ 10 Jul 1998
Strive Masiyiwa: from Zimbabwean engineering to Econet and beyond
The Zimbabwean-born founder of Econet helped build mobile and digital communications businesses across Africa and internationally.
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People✳ 6 Oct 2026
Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza: Zimbabwean storytelling on the Caine Prize stage
The Zimbabwean writer was named the 2026 Caine Prize winner for The Blue Fighter, as questions about the story’s authorship remain under review.
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People
Fadzayi Mahere: advocacy, law and public life
The Zimbabwean advocate has worked in litigation, legal training and public life, with an international legal education.
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People
James Manyika: from Zimbabwean education to Google research leadership
A Zimbabwean-born engineer and researcher now helps direct Google’s work across AI, research and technology’s impact on society.
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Heritage✳ 1986
Great Zimbabwe is more than ruins
The stone-built city tells a story of architecture, trade and African statecraft.
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Heritage
Matobo Hills: landscape and memory
A cultural landscape with rock art, sacred places and stories across generations.
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Heritage✳ 1986
Khami: a city after Great Zimbabwe
Another chapter of remarkable stone architecture near Bulawayo.
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People✳ 1988
Tsitsi Dangarembga and the power of storytelling
A novelist and filmmaker whose work has helped readers see Zimbabwean lives in new ways.
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People✳ 23 Jun 2025
Kirsty Coventry: Zimbabwean Olympic champion and IOC president
Zimbabwe's seven-time Olympic medallist became the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee in June 2025.
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Talent
Oliver Mtukudzi: music that travelled
Remembering a musician whose work resonated across generations.
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Worldwide✳ 2016
Danai Gurira, across stage and screen
A Zimbabwean-American storyteller working in theatre, television and film.
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Culture
Mbira: music, memory and meaning
An introduction to a family of musical traditions and their cultural contexts.
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Culture
Many languages. One country. Countless voices.
Why OurPride makes room for contributions in the languages of Zimbabwe.
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Places
Victoria Falls: a wonder shared across borders
A World Heritage landscape with ecology, communities and many names.
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Places✳ 1984
Mana Pools and the wild Zambezi
Wildlife, river landscapes and the importance of conservation.
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Learn
How to research a Zimbabwean story
A practical mini-guide to building an account that others can verify.
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Innovate
What counts as Zimbabwean innovation?
Beyond apps: celebrate the people who solve problems in workshops, labs and communities.
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Opportunities
Before you apply: verify that scholarship
Practical ways to distinguish real opportunities from impersonation and scams.
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Play
Can you answer five Zimbabwe heritage questions?
Five quick questions, five chances to learn something new.
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People
The Zimbabweans whose stories we still need
Teachers, nurses, builders, researchers, carers, creators: the invitation is open.
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Worldwide
A living map of Zimbabwean stories worldwide
A growing ambition: know who is building, creating and contributing beyond our borders.
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Learn
What was special about your school?
School histories, uniforms, teachers, sport and the stories people remember.
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