What Does Mutare Zimbabwe Look Like in 2022? 

We love Zambia we share a lot as neighbors and as siblings ofcourse ❤🙏

I am a zimbo but I like Zambia too Zambians people

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Zimbabweans love their country very much, if you think they do not you are very mistaken. The only issue is that they have seen much better than what you are seeing today. I think Mugabe may have driven it to some heights before the sanctions. That is what they remember. So it pains those who have seen it in its former glory. The buildings in Harare and Mutare have basically not changed in more than 25-30 years. They were well painted and it had clean streets, beautiful well flowered gardens and streets. probably the best hotels in Africa. It was second to South Africa in terms of industrialization and was leaving Egypt in the dust. So imagine that the most beautiful building portrays the direction that it was headed until sanctions happened. Most streets in Harare if not all had been paved by 1993. But look at them now. Its biggest stadium is about thirty years. It had electric trains. All airports were working. It was electrified. It had the best water in Africa, the best education and the fastest growing industrial sites. Good small and large scale farming. That was until 1998 and things took a nosedive. Its progress under black rule became its achilles heel. The same jealousy they show towards China. Arguably for no good reason at all.

I guess it's really hard to appreciate what we have when the economy makes day to day living hard for the majority. The beauty of our country unfortunately doesn't translate to enough food on the table or basic services for many. We've seen better days , hope we can rise again.

@@tari2073 Yes, the whole African continent will rise again meaning all the countries in it. This is a prophecy and decades ago a white man higher up told western politicians, scientists and royals Africa will be the world's next and leading super power. They laughed at him but look now even some of their people who are not in their positions fled the west for Africa! The prophecy will come to fruition by or before 2030.

@@serene1275 Oh wow. May God grant me life to see those days.

I think for some its when we compare the Zimbabwe we lived in, in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s before things went downhill. We came from very high standards so when we talk of Zimbabwe now its really bad compared to the past.

Unfortunately the government has completely different ideas.

I'm thinking of coming there I'm in South Africa now definitely I will be there see you.

Can't wait to host you in my backyard when you come.

Yep, it's pretty dry. There were rains recently in Zim, hope Mutare got some.

Ehe but remember abortion kuuraya, #peniel Ngonde

Thank you Vrod. Me too I prefer seeing a place than 90% their faces

Most of Zim needs to be renovated and upgraded. I agree that as a nation maybe we need to take it upon ourselves and not wait for the government. How much would it cost to put a lick of paint on one's own shop for example?

I know right. They put a lot of western and eastern countries to shame!! I have travelled in cities in the west and seen filthy streets in popular areas especially where high prices homes and skyscrapers are.

You can say that again...so much Land there✌️

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It was, perfect timing.

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The rubbish that in S.A is the Zimbos themselves 😏

@@ayobampilo5762 eish bathong yehlisa umoya kkkkk

He had to drag our South Africa into this video... see what you have to put up with when you are on Top... we are number 1 in Africa and that’s a fact😂😂😂

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Fellow Zmbabwean here too. The Christmas pass vibes gives you the same feeling if you visit Medellin, Colombia. City build in a valley also called the city of eternal spring. Funny thing is Medellin is at at about exactly the same altitude as Harare and with the same amazing weather year round. Absolutely stunning seeing the houses build on mountain sides. Driving the hills around The Eastern highlands is absolutely stunning. Need to be ready for some ear popping due to rapid changes in altitude.

is that so? Exactly what have guys heard about Zim, that you are getting shocked

Bro Mutare should have been like the most developed city in Zim cause of the diamonds just like Capetown but eish those in power have other ideas.

Mugabe legacy

Yep. At least they still manage to keep it clean. What about devolution funds....hope they're getting some. It's also time for property investors to look at other cities other than Harare.

@@tari2073 true. Problem with Zimbabwe is everything is concentrated in Harare. Bulawayo has not changed one bit since the 90s.

Beauty is not about new buildings only as is, Mutare is beautiful. The current infrastructure needs to be maintained or upgraded I suppose. New buildings do not define beauty at all. Please travel around the world and take note of old buildings in bigger cities

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Now that's something a lot of us in the west would loved. Water in the states not so clean especially in some black communities where it's not good to drink. Right from one of the richest countries in the west and some people talked about how water is dirty in all Africans countries. Bottle water is big business in America.

@@serene1275 Mutare water is from Pungwe river which is in the mountains. The water is unpolutated. The city does not need to purify it. Its like you are drinking water from a spring!

Wakawinza regionalism netribalism pasipo

They are ruling Manicaland. You don't need to rule the country to shine. You can make your province a paradise and people will see your strength and might.

60km/hr in urban roads...I stand corrected

You'll definitely love it

@@AFRICANTIGRESS last time I was there was more than TEN years ago, i miss it... I'll definitively be in east Africa beginning of 23

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Simple!

It really is!

I am looking for that music too

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That's where you are from!!

Okay

Kkkkk, why not. She loves Zim

That is not true. The settlers where led by Leander Starr Jameson together with the explorer Selous and they came through the protectorate of Botswana, asked for passage through Bulawayo and Matebeleland from King Lobengula because there was tension and they were afraid the Ndebeles would massacre them because of the Rudd Consession controversy. They finally rested in Masvingo after escaping a huge Ndebele army and they called it Fort Victoria and hosted the Union Jack for the first time in Zimbabwe. The first cricket match was also played there. Most of them camped there while others followed Selous North looking for Mount Darwin. They eventually arrived in what is today Harare and thought it was Mt Darwin, settled there and called it Salisbury. It was only a few years later when Rhodes who was governor of the Cape Colony at the time thought about getting the Eastern Highlands from the Portuguese loose Prazero system as a route to the sea with ideas about boats through Pungwe River to the sea. He sent an American settler called Forbes to Chief Mutasa's kraal to sign a treaty and the drunkard chief was happy to do so because he wanted alcohol. The Portuguese prazero came weeks later looking for his tribute when he realised what chief Mutasa had done and punished him. The chief denied ever signing the Forbes treaty. So Jameson and crew finally went to Gaza in Mozambique to negotiate the acquisition of Manicaland with the Shangaan King who many white people feared and even the Portuguese stayed away from. When they finally won the treaty, they arrested the Portuguese Prazero and the first settlers coming out of the Cape Colony like the Fairbridges and Coaurthaulds settled in Mutare for the first time.

Used to be called Umtali????

@@takudzwamazwienduna Thank you for the potted history,which is not disputed.The issue in hand which you have not addressed is why is Christmas Pass so called.I have given the explanation as according to most historians.The colonial pioneers did not come into Zimbabwe only on one route.Those that successfully penetrated via Mutare struggled and eventually found a route on Christmas Day in 1890 ,through the pass we now call Christmas Pass.Just out of interest what is your explanation as to why it is called Christmas Pass?

@@nolavout9094 Yes used to be Umtali.

@@dennismacharaga3924 there was no British settlement in 1890, and settlers came to Mutare a lot later. It was always called Murahwa Hill, that has always been the official name. Christmas Pass is an adopted nickname from the 1960s and 1970s. It earned that nickname because when you pass it at night you see the lights from the city lit up like lights on a Christmas tree.

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Shout out to you Archie, appreciate that review. Thanks.

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Mutare is 136km2 with a population estimate of 100 000, gweru is larger said to be 206Km2 with a smaller population masvingo is smaller than gweru and mutare. Harare is bigger than bulawayo now since the new addition of mt Hampden and harare west surbubs from 960km2 to what is being estimated to become 1400km2 . Then bulawayo is 1200km2.

Zimbabwe is sparsely populated a country around same size as UK but with only 16 million population.

This is the third largest city in Zimbabwe if not the fourth as Gweru is also considered the third largest city in Zimbabwe after Harare and Bulawayo

@@AFRICA_THE_NOW_AND_THE_FUTURE Most of Southern Africa is sparsely populated. When you guys come to East Africa or travel to West Africa, you're always shocked at how crowded their cities and towns are.

People are in other countries trying to survive.

@@AllanKamaliki look at the size of Botswana and Namibia...they each have less than 3 million people population. They are bigger than most countries in Africa and rest of the world.

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