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The name "Zimbabwe", based on a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, an ancient ruined city in the country's south-east, was first recorded as a term of national reference in 1960, when it was coined by the black nationalist Michael Mawema, [5] whose Zimbabwe National Party became the first to officially use the name in 1961. [6]
The headquarters and main branch of the bank are located in Barclay House, at the corner of Jason Moyo Street and First Street, in downtown Harare, the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. [4] The geographical coordinates of the headquarters of First Capital Bank Zimbabwe are:17°49'50.0"S 31°02'59.0"E (Latitude:-17.830556; Longitude:31.049722).
Its common name is the Chivhu-Nyazura Road 18°42′46″S 31°10′22″E / 18.712784°S 31.17271°E / -18.712784; 31.17271 ( A3/R6 Just 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) before Mutare , the highway A15 branches right (north) to Juliasdale and through to Nyanga and the Eastern Highlands.
[1] The suburb is laid out in the form of a rectangular grid, about 1 km to the north of the central business district. [2] on the other side of the Harare Gardens.The area is traversed by all the major thoroughfares to the northern suburbs. These include Prince Edward Street (western boundary), Leopald Takawira Avenue, Sam Nujoma St (2nd ...
Emerald Hill is a north-western suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. The suburb was named so because of either (i) the colour of the hill due to the large number of trees or (ii) an Irish connection: many of the roads in the suburb have Irish names. [1] On the hill in the centre of the suburb are located a school for the deaf and a children's home.
Mount Pleasant is located in the northern part of Harare, and is bordered by the Vainona, Pomona, Emerald Hill, Belgravia, and Marlborough suburbs.From the postwar era to the 1980s, generations of wealthy residents built dozens of stately homes in the area in various styles, including Beaux-Arts architecture, Edwardian, Cape Dutch and post-war modern styles. [4]
The couple had one child, a son, Russell Goreraza, who now manages his mother's extensive farm property, Gushungo Dairy Estate. [1] In 1995, the fact that Goreraza's wife Grace had had two children by President Mugabe became public. In 1995 or 1996, Grace and Stanley Goreraza divorced and Grace married Robert Mugabe in 1996.
Mount Darwin is the probable site of some of the earliest European missionary work in southern Africa, by the Portuguese Jesuit Gonçalo da Silveira, who arrived in 1560 and was killed in March 1561 near Mount Darwin following a souring of relations with the local chief.