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    The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres (22 mi)...
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    Tanzania Matopo berhanoui Laporte, 1984 Ethiopia Matopo descarpentriesi (Laporte, 1975) Matopo giacomellii Dognin, 1916 Argentina Matopo heterochroa...
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  • Mwari was frequently approached via mediums at shrines at Matonjeni in the Matopo Hills of Zimbabwe. In 1890, Christian missionaries began to translate the...
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    Rhodesia. He was educated at the David Livingstone Memorial Mission and Matopo Mission before matriculating in the Cape Province (South Africa) in 1946...
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    James Girls High School - Nyamandlovu Rhodes Estate Preparatory School - Matopo George Silundika High School - Nyamandlovu Bulawayo is home to a number...
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    1897 in Bulawayo. Rhodes decreed in his will that he was to be buried in Matopos Hills (now Matobo Hills). After his death in the Cape in 1902, his body...
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  • Zimbabwe's second largest city.Vendas used to take the black cow once yearl to Matopo(Matovha) in appropriations of the rain. The process was stoped by the Whites...
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    back to a thousand years and is evidenced by the rock art found in the Matopos attributed to the Khoi-San. In 2016 the US Ambassador's' fund for Cultural...
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    Queen Loziba, died. His next capital was established at Mhlahlandlela in Matopo District where he is buried. This became his second and last capital until...
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    influenced his design. The monument is built of sandstone quarried in the Matopo Hills in Zimbabwe and is the tomb of 27 soldiers. It features an inscription...
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  • nationals. The name Matobo is that of a national park, Matobo National Park (Matopos) in Matabeleland Zimbabwe. Parts of The Interpreter were filmed inside...
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    or domes. In certain locales they may be known as dwalas, half-oranges, matopos, etc. Often, the underlying geological fracture pattern is shown by the...
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    the various shrines in the Matopos into one". Frederick Selous believed that the head priest of the Mlimo lived in the Matopos, but that "there are other...
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    River, is a major tributary of the Shashe River in Zimbabwe. It rises near Matopo Mission, Matobo District, and flows into the Shashe River near Tuli village...
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    since. They also feature an outstanding collection of rock paintings. The Matopo Hills continue to provide a strong focus for the local community, which...
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  • the field was their red berets. After several ZIPRA forces in Lupane and Matopos refused their tools, the Fifth Brigade conducted public executions of ex-ZIPRA...
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    alternative, put forward by nationalists in Matabeleland, had been "Matopos", referring to the Matopos Hills to the south of Bulawayo. It was initially not clear...
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    (029) 2800xxx Figtree 0283 2804 (089) 2804xxx Kezi 0282 2807 (089) 2807xxx Matopos 0383 2809 (089) 2809xxx Baobab 0281 081 28 (081) 28xxxxx Binga 015 2847...
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  • including Gwanda, Filabusi, Fort Rixon, Avoca, Khami, Esibomvu, Shangani, Matopo, Lochard, Mulungwane, Nyamandlovu, Redbank, Greystone, Collen Bawn and Ntabazinduna...
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    Coghlan was buried near Cecil Rhodes's grave, at "World's View" in the Matopos Hills near Bulawayo. Charles Patrick John Coghlan was born on 24 June 1863...
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    because he commanded reconnaissance missions into enemy territory in the Matopos Hills, but because many of his later Boy Scout ideas took hold here. It...
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    and in August 1961 the first of many selection courses was run in the Matopos just outside Bulawayo. No 1 basic training course completed their training...
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    Cooke, C.K (1963). "Report on excavations at Pomongwe and Tshangula caves, Matopo Hills Southern Rhodesia". South African Archaeological Bulletin. 18. Walker...
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    Scotland Died 4 December 1893 (aged 36–37) Shangani River, Rhodesia Buried Matopos Hills, Rhodesia Allegiance  United Kingdom Service/branch  British Army...
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    regard Lewis mentions Cecil Rhodes meeting the Ndebele leaders in the Matopos in 1896 in the Second Matabele War and Smuts and General Louis Botha braving...
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  • Plumtree, Mzingwane Vipers of Mzingwane High School in Esigodini, Matopo Dolphins from Matopo High School, Beitbridge Eagles from Beitbridge and Colleen Bawn...
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    unemployment, and hyperinflation.[citation needed] ZAPU Kalanga Gwanda Matopos Hwange Victoria Falls Bulawayo Joshua Nkomo Ntumbane Matabeleland football...
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  • Umlugulu E.N 1953 Pioneer Memorial Historical Western Matabeleland South Matopo 72 Harleigh Farm Ruins E.N 1954 Zimbabwe Ruin Archaeological Eastern Manicaland...
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    Frederick Selous. The Matabele retreated into their stronghold of the Matopos Hills near Bulawayo, a region that became the scene of the fiercest fighting...
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    mustered reinforcements from South Africa, the Matabele retreated into the Matopos Hills; here Frederick Russell Burnham, an American scout long in Company...
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