1990 Birds of Zimbabwe
Rio Tinto Southern Rhodesia Ltd Salisbury Rio Tinto Southern Rhodesia Ltd was incorporated on 29th August, 1956. It was set up initially to develop and mine the Empress Nickel deposit in Gatooma and was the first mining operation to be set up outside Europe by Rio Tinto plc in March, 1957. By 1959 it acquired…
PhotoSafari (Pvt) Ltd Type IIB SafariCard with imprint PhotoSafari (Pvt) Ltd as divider. FB
Bush War Assembly Points During the Lancaster House Conference, one of the agreements was to create assembly points throughout Rhodesia to house guerillas and initiate a demobilising exercise. The Assembly Points were the concentration points for all guerilla groups. Each was to be manned by a small contingent of Commonwealth monitoring forces. All the Zimbabwean National…
Tillman A. Houser (1922 – 2014) Rev. Tillman Houser received a BA degree in Biblical Studies in 1947 from Seattle Pacific University and a Masters Degree in Missiology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1978. Rev. Tillman and his wife, Gwen, served as missionaries to Africa for 35 years with the Free Methodist Church (FMC), arriving…
Haddon & Sly Ltd Salisbury In 1910, a second branch of Haddon & Sly was opened on Manica Road, Salisbury to cater for men. In 1928, the imposing structure that exists today was opened. Contributors James Gavin
Bancroft, Neil & Co Ltd Bulawayo Bancroft, Neil & Co Ltd was founded in Bulawayo in 1946 as an agricultural business and, in those early years, grew to become the major supplier of stationary engines for borehole pumps and other applications. As time progressed, the company became a major supplier of polythene and PVC pipes…
