Postcards: E. T. Brown – Type VA – Leopard Rock – Vumba – Southern Rhodesia

Empandeni Mission Plumtree Empandeni Mission, near Plumtree, Matabeleland South, is the oldest surviving Catholic mission in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).   The Jesuits re-entered Zimbabwe from South Africa in 1879 with a team of eleven men, led by Fr. Henry Depelchin.  In 1887, they opened Empandeni mission on a tract of land granted them by Chief Lobengula…