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2 unusual facts about Mount Selinda


Mount Selinda

Currently the Mission station has a boarding school, Mount Selinda High School, which and has a hospital not far from the school.

Rhodesian Armoured Corps

The regiment took part in a number of static but intense battles, notably at Mount Selinda against Mocambiquan Frelimo Forces (where a Bronze Cross was awarded to 2nd Lieutenant Rae) in 1977 and at Chirundu in October 1978, where heavy-machine gun, artillery and mortar duels took place between D Squadron and elements of the Zambian Army over a period of three days and nights near the Otto Beit Bridge.



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