Description: Zimbabwe’s recent history has been marked by much controversy and, unfortunately, massive abuses of power and infringements against human rights.
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Tower at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, showing unmortared, dressed masonry. Image by Jacky R at en.wikipedia
Zimbabwe’s recent history has been marked by much controversy and, unfortunately, massive abuses of power and infringements against human rights. The problems experienced by the people living in Zimbabwe do, however, go back many years, perhaps even to before the colonial era when Cecil John Rhodes and the British South Africa Company (BSAC) were granted concessions to mine in the area.
Contemporary day Zimbabwe lies to the north of South Africa , and is bordered by Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. The country is more or less delimited by the Limpopo River to the South and the Zambezi River to the North, and after the arrival of colonial powers in the 1880s, the area was named Southern Rhodesia. Northern Rhodesia constituted the present day Zambia, Zimbabwe’s northern neighbour.