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6 unusual facts about Mashonaland


British South Africa Police

The organisation was formed by the BSAC in 1889 as a paramilitary, mounted infantry force in order to provide protection for the Pioneer Column of settlers which moved into Mashonaland in 1890.

Calodendrum capense

It is native to a swath of the east side of the continent from the equatorial highlands of Kenya at its northern limit southwards through isolated mountains in Tanzania to both sides of Lake Malawi, the Mashonaland Plateau and Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, and then along the lower slopes of the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa and in coastal forest from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town.

Edwin Alderson

He also undertook training at the Staff College, Camberley and in 1896 was sent to Mashonaland as a commander of a regiment of local troops during the Second Matabele War.

Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch

The Boers were at the same time striving to frustrate Cecil Rhodes's schemes of northern expansion and planning to occupy Mashonaland, to secure control of Swaziland and Zululand and to acquire the adjacent lands up to the ocean.

Hugh Marshall Hole

In 1901 Marshall Hole took up the position of private secretary to Sir Starr Jameson in Mashonaland (who was shortly to be appointed Administrator of the Company's territories).

James Theodore Bent

After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa, with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa.


Bernard Matemera

Matemera was the son of a village headman, living near the town of Guruve, Mashonaland in the far north of what was, in 1946, Southern Rhodesia.

Bruce Makovah

The game saw two Mashonaland batsmen score heavily, Gary Martin and Ali Shah scoring first-class bests.

CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882

In 1898 two of these locomotives, numbers 59 and 71, were sold to Pauling and Company who used them during the construction of the Beira and Mashonaland Railway and renumbered them 2 and 1 respectively.

Crocoite

Other localities which have yielded good crystallized specimens are Congonhas do Campo near Ouro Preto in Brazil, Luzon in the Philippines, Mutare in Mashonaland, near Menzies in Western Australia, plus Brazil, Germany and South Africa.

Feock

Feock, Zimbabwe, a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

Mashonaland Eagles

A total of 5 teams were named, and the Mashonaland Eagles franchise was based in Harare.

Russell Tiffin

After three years of military service, he played for Mashonaland in the days before Zimbabwean provincial cricket had first-class status, while working as a manager for Castrol Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Saints F.C.

The name Mashonaland United FC was adopted up until 1975 when nationalist leaders such as Dr Herbert Ushewokunze and Dr Joshua Nkomo (both late) felt tribal names were causing divisions among African people.


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