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6 unusual facts about Hwange


Daniel Molokele

Daniel Fortune Molokele (b. Fortune Mguni on 31 January 1975 in Hwange, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean pro-democracy human rights lawyer well known for his fight for democracy.

Hwange

The Wankie Coal Field, one of the largest in the world, was discovered here in 1895 by the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham.

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.

Marist Brothers Secondary School Dete was opened in 1972, as a transfer from St. Mary’s Secondary School in Lukosi, Hwange.

South African Class 16DA 4-6-2

One of these three was later plinthed alongside the main North road at Hwange.

Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Estate

The first proclaimed Game Reserve was Wankie (now Hwange), formed in 1928 and upgraded in the 1949 National Parks Act.



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