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Tshabalala Game Sanctuary
Located in
Zimbabwe :: Matabeleland South
:: Bulawayo
Category:
Protected Areas :: Animal Sanctuary
Tshabalala Game Sanctuary is located roughly 10 km from Bulawayo city centre on the Matopos road. It is a wildlife sanctuary of thorny bushveld and hosts a variety of birdlife and wildlife. Some of them include guinea fowl, francolins, giraffe, zebra, warthog, impala, tsessebe and other smaller antelope, and many species of wild birds and waterfowl. Visitors are allowed to leave their cars in Tshabalala and walk through the wilderness and experience the sights and sounds on foot. Driving and cycling are also permitted and horse rides can be arranged. Tshabalala Game Sanctuary is open from 06:00 to 18:00hrs and there is an entrance charge. In 1883, after Lobengula had been appointed King, a European sailor, Fairburn Usher, having jumped his ship in Cape Town, arrived in Matabeleland. He became accepted by the people who gave him the name of Pondwene and later he married one of Lobengula's daughters and was given an extensive tract of land known as Tshabalala, on which to settle, by Lobengula. Usher lived in traditional Ndebele style with his family on the banks of the Phekwe stream and evidence of this habitation can be found in the terraces made on the stream bank where Usher made a vegetable garden and in the remains of a stone wall that formed part of his cattle pens, alongside which is his grave. During the Matabeleland Rebellion, many soldiers and some civilians fell in the area and were noted as buried at the farm.
| Address : | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe |
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