Category: Zimbabwe
Postcards: Igogo-Karibu Ranch – Type I
Leopard Rock Hotel
Leopard Rock Hotel
Vumba
Leopard Rock Hotel was built and opened by the Seymour-Smiths in 1946. The Seymour-Smiths were a well-known local family who decided after the Second World War that a need existed for a holiday hotel at the top of the Bvumba Mountains.
When opened, the hotel offered accommodation for up to 40 guests, reached by travelling up a gravel road which climbed hundreds of metres from Umtali and wound through the mountainsides. A simple but amusing nine-hole golf course was built on the hotel’s estate and the hotel promoted itself as a venue for people who enjoyed the invigorating climate and communing with nature.
As part of the 1953 Royal Tour, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret stayed at the hotel and were so taken with the hotel and its spectacular surroundings that she was inspired to pen these words for posterity; “There is nowhere more beautiful in Africa.”
Leopard Rock Hotel was then purchased by the Taberer family in the 1990s and a major expansion project was undertaken, which saw the construction of a new bedroom block –increasing the number of available rooms and suites to accommodate 120 guests. The hotel is now owned and operated by Cambria Africa plc previously Lonzim.’
In 2011 and 2012, the hotel was named Best Resort Hotel in Zimbabwe by the Association of Zimbabwean Travel Agents in their respected annual awards event. In 2013, CNN Travel named the Leopard Rock golf course one of Africa’s 10 best golf courses.
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- E T Brown – Type IV – Leopard Rock Hotel
- E T Brown – Type IV – Leopard Rock
- E T Brown – Type IVB – Leopard Rock Hotel
- E T Brown – Type IVD – Leopard Rock Hotel
- E T Brown – Type V – Leopard Rock Hotel
- E T Brown – Type V – Leopard Rock
References
Postcards: The Montclair Hotel – Type I
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority
Harare
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, is Zimbabwe’s tourism’s governing body formed as an act of parliament and operates under the mandate of the Tourism Act of Zimbabwe of 1996. It has its headquarters in the main business district of the capital city of Zimbabwe, Harare.
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority is mandated to market Zimbabwe and falls under the Ministry Of Tourism.
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Contributors
- Geoff Brakspear
Postcards: Zimbabwe Tourism Authority – Type I
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority
Type I
| No.s | Description | Earliest PMK Date |
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| N/A | Great Zimbabwe - The Grand Medieval Palace |
Rhodes Inyanga Hotel
Rhodes Inyanga Hotel
Rusape
Rhodes Inyanga Hotel was originally built as a holiday cottage in the 1800’s by Cecil John Rhodes. Rhodes’s bought the old Fotheringhame’s homestead on Fruitfield Farm in 1896. “Mr Rhodes built himself a retreat; and this was always his solitude where he preferred to think out his great schemes.”
In 1918 the Estate at Nyanga was delegated to the Department of Agriculture. Later still it was decided that the orchards should be leased from the Estate by the Ministry of Agriculture and run as a Horticultural Experiment Station. Other parts of the Estate are leased to the Forestry Commission and The Wattle Company, and farming operations were carried on until 1933.
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- 24.09.1948
In that year it was decided to develop the area as a tourist resort. Rest camps were erected at various beauty spots and roads were built so that tourists could visit the different sites on the Estates. The original homestead on the Estate was modernized to form the present Rhodes Nyanga Hotel in 1933, about three decades after his death.
It is currently known as the Rhodes Nyanga Hotel and continues to operate.
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Aerogrammes of British Central Africa
Aerogrammes of British Central Africa
This listing will deal with the special printed forms used in the three countries of British Central Africa as a means of providing an inexpensive air mail service using a custom designed air letter form. It is not confined to postal stationery (that is stationery produced bearing an imprinted valid postage stamp and sold by or on behalf of a postal authority) but will include air letter sheets and aerogrammes issued without an imprinted stamp, provided there is evidence of the use of that form of air letter sheet or aerogrammes in one or more of the countries.
As and when new information is received the relevant chapters will be updated and republished. Please note that this could involve the renumbering of the items within a chapter. Be sure to always use the latest update, which will be dated.
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Adrian de Bourbon
November 2019
Chapters
- 00 – Airmail Etiquettes
- 01 – Introduction and History
- 02 – Active Service Letter Cards
- 03 – Air Letters of Southern Rhodesia
- 04 – Air Letters of Northern Rhodesia (Updated! March 2020)
- 05 – Air letters of Nyasaland
- 06 – Aerogrammes of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
- 07 – Formular (unstamped) forms used in the countries (In-production)
- 08 – Aerogrammes of Rhodesia from Federation until 1980 Independence (Updated! March 2020)
- 09 – Propaganda Aerogrammes of Rhodesia (Updated! March 2020)
- 10 – Aerogrammes of Malawi (Updated! March 2020)
- 11 – Aerogrammes of Zambia (Updated! March 2020)
- 12 – Aerogrammes of Zimbabwe from 1980 to present (Updated! March 2020)
Contributors
- Hugh Amoore
- Sean Burke
- Geoff Brakspear
- Tony Banks
- James Gavin
- Keith Harrop
- Barry Horne
- Narendrha Morar
- Dave Trathen
- Otto Peetoom
- Allan Rendle
- Stuart Ross
- Mark Thomas
Gwyn-Moyra Florists
Postcards: Tourist Promotion in Africa (Pvt) Ltd – Type VI – VF Series
Tourist Promotion in Africa (Pvt) Ltd
Type VI – VF Series
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- VF/64
| No.s | Description | Earliest PMK Date |
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| VF/64 | Main Falls. |