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Zimbabwe 2018 – World Cancer Day Details Date of Issue: 28th February, 2018 Date Withdrawn: Date Invalidated: Designer: Printer: Process: Paper: Watermark: Perf: Cylinders: Sheet: Booklet: Quantity: First Day Covers FB
The Salvation Army Usher Institute The Usher Institute was established by the Salvation Army at Leighwoods farm near Figtree, Southern Rhodesia in 1933 by then Staff Captain Salhus and his wife, but has its origins in the work of pioneer Salvationist James Henry Usher and his wife Jessie who informally began teaching Africans living in…
Central News Agency Bulawayo/Salisbury In 1896 two entrepreneurs, Michael Davis and Albert Lindbergh, paired up to sell newspapers in Johannesburg. By coordinating teams of newsboys who delivered papers by foot and on bicycles, the Central News Agency (CNA) was founded. The first newspapers sold were The Star, The Standard and Diggers News. Davis and…
Roman Catholic Church Monte Cassino Mission The “Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance,” commonly known as Trappist Monks, arrived in Natal, South Africa (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1882 under the leadership of Rev. Francis Pfanner. Fr. Pfanner and a group of 31 volunteers settled on a farm near the village of Pinetown and set to…
1953 Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition Details Date of Issue: 1953 Designer: Printer: Process: Paper: Perf: Sheet: Booklet: Quantity: Commercial Covers FB
Mount Selinda Mission Medical Department Medical work began at Mount Selinda in the mission’s first year with the opening of a dispensary by Dr. W. L Thompson in 1893. It was the first permanent missionary medical mission staffed by a medical doctor in Southern Rhodesia. The dispensary became a full-fledged hospital in 1912. Dr. Willis…
