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Kate Chambers
6 years
Fav story this week: on her way to school, Nozipho Sibanda (then aged 12) from 🇿🇼 noticed that part of the railway line was broken. She knew it could mean disaster. Detoured to tell the station master, who stopped the train. Verdict: 300 lives saved.
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Kate Chambers
2 years
Headlands, Zimbabwe.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Lisa Ndengo. Just graduated from ZOU with a First 👏. Forced into child marriage at 14. Managed to escape to her grandmother in Macheke. Taken in by a #teacher who did much to make sure she got an education. Lisa worked two jobs to finish her degree. Story by @NewshawksLive
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Kango enamelware from #Zimbabwe . I bought a yellow teapot several years ago and use it often. (Also have a small brown one). 🫖
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Vumba in early September. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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6 years
Paradise Pools Bindura #Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Great story about a Zimbabwean doctor from #Bulawayo involved in #COVID19 vaccine and antibody research (and I loved the backstory)
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Packing for car journeys. Ramba waraira biscuits 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Mazhanje Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Lord Reigns General Dealer. #Juliasdale Road, #Nyanga . Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
8 months
RG Mugabe International airport, Harare.
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Headlands Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Nearly four years ago I started taking photos of the stores I saw on long drives in #Zimbabwe Still so many left to see 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Msasa trees on the Harare to Mutare road yesterday afternoon. And also wild pear, erythrina, wooden orange 🌳. I’ve travelled up and down this road so many times but I don’t think I’ve ever seen the #msasas along the side of the highway look so beautiful.
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Headlands Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Shamva road #Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
6 years
#Nyanga Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Bulawayo streets. Saturday.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Arundel, Harare, Friday.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Matobo National Park, the edge of. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Favourite time of year. #Harare .
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Kate Chambers
2 years
Mulberries from the garden
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Rusape Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Near #Marondera 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Sunday walks Christon Bank, Harare 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Near #Norton on the main Bulawayo to Harare road
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Harare.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Avocados from the tree in the garden. #Zimbabwe .
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Made in Zimbabwe.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Written by two ex-NUST students,  and dedicated to their mothers ❤ Powerful, tough must-read for anyone working with uni students or in the higher education sector. And, of course, for anyone interested in contemporary Zim literature! 📚
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Congratulations to Baron Chikuni who graduated from MSU yesterday! An amazing story of determination. Here with his friend and his mum ❤ Baron is running a project to restock the BSPZ #library in #Zvishavane 📚
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Guruve district. #Zimbabwe .
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Sliced sugar cane, #Zimbabwe .
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Kate Chambers
2 years
Zimbabwean 🇿🇼peanut butter, guava jam and macadamias. About to be handed over to Dad for his 75th birthday today. Plus corn and wheat Cerevita breakfast cereal which he first tasted a few years when my children were eating it (and really liked).
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Kate Chambers
7 years
Sunday lunch under the avocado tree. #family #Zimbabwe (and kango)
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Kate Chambers
6 years
UPDATE: A businessman in Chipinge has offered Curran Musada the use (at no charge) of his van for his mobile library project. Now to source fuel... Curran, Pricilla, Tapiwa, Nomatter & Prudence are doing an amazing job getting reading books to young people in the community 👏👏
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Guruve district, #Zimbabwe .
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Paradise Pools, Bindura.
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Rusape on a winter’s morning.
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Masau. Used to buy these dried in small packets outside TM supermarket in Mutare. They smell of toffee. 🍊
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Matamba, Umkhemeswane. Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Seen from the road in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
8 months
Heading off to the airport earlier with this beautiful bag from @Moredawear 🇿🇼 #madeinZimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Goromonzi turn-off Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Nyanga, #Zimbabwe 🌳🌳
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Mulberry season 🇿🇼 Came home to find she'd spent most of the afternoon up the mulberry tree. This bowl of berries is the good part...
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Kate Chambers
2 years
Sweet potato season on the road to #Chinhoyi .
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Mukuvisi Woodlands. Saturday. Harare 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
2 years
St. Dominic’s High School, #Mutare
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Kate Chambers
2 years
We (that’s my 10-year-old and I) used tsunga and lacto to make our own version of a traditional spinach loaf.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Msasa time. #Nyanga Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Lake Mutirikwi, #Zimbabwe . Water levels much higher than I’ve seen here before. Fish eagles. Crocodiles. And trees both in and out of the lake.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Halfway House on the Harare to Mutare road.
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Kate Chambers
7 months
Mount Pleasant, #Harare .
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Sunday walks. Harare 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Mutare, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Chabwino Secondary School in the #Shamva road Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
6 years
This is the view I used to have when I walked out of one of the #lecture halls at Africa #University . A beautiful campus.
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Rusape, Zimbabwe.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Nyanga, #Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Pakakoro Dam, Arcturus. Zimbabwe.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Nyanga, #Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
10 months
Harare.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
London Stores, #Nyanga road.
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Kate Chambers
2 years
Cornbread/chimodho. This one I made with polenta.
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Kate Chambers
7 years
Guruve. #Zimbabwe .
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1 year
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Kate Chambers
2 years
From the top of Christmas Pass, #Mutare 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Cosmos 🌸 Groombridge, Harare, Sunday.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Shamva road. #Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Found this in Kensington Spar last night. Product of #Mutare 🐝
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Goromonzi Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
4 years
#Jacaranda Arcturus Road, Harare🌳
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Kate Chambers
5 years
The Mutare Club Herbert Chitepo Street.
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Last photos from this trip : these were taken on the return drive from #Mutare to #Harare on Sunday 🍂
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Kate Chambers
6 years
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. I love this place for several reasons, not least of them the good selection of #Zimbabwean literature on sale in the gallery shop downstairs. Recent Caine Prize anthologies are also available here.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
#Mutare to #Masvingo road. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (Near the 22 Miles tollgate)
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Kate Chambers
6 years
National Botanical Garden Harare 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Bulawayo streets. Friday.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Hute
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Fever trees Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Beautiful time of year. Harare.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Wedding anniversary today. The vintage bag was from Horncastle; I carried it to my wedding a long way from home. Marrying him wasn’t just about adventures - but it turns out he and I have had a few. And he is kind. It matters. ❤️
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Kate Chambers
7 years
Harare Botanical Gardens.
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Rusape Zimbabwe (this is from last Friday)
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Halfway House. Harare to Mutare road.
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Norfolk Road, #Harare
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Kate Chambers
3 years
End of day. Avondale, #Harare .
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Kate Chambers
10 months
Near Bromley on the #Mutare road late yesterday afternoon.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Road to #Chimanimani Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Mazowe road. #Zimbabwe .
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Kate Chambers
4 years
Haka Park, Harare.
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Kate Chambers
5 years
Mutare. This town, those hills. Main Street: OK, the market opposite Janis on weekends, the Wimpy courtyard (pretty sure it's no longer a Wimpy) where Mai A and I took the children for ice-cream when they were small, dried masau sold in small bags outside Meikles ❤
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5 years
Loving the Blue Sky.
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Kate Chambers
3 years
Near Marondera on the #Harare to #Mutare road. #Zimbabwe
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Harare. Sunday.
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Kate Chambers
6 years
Shamiso Investments This is on the Juliasdale to #Rusape road, before St. Faith's. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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Kate Chambers
6 years
🐝Great supermarket find in Harare: #honey made by bees that forage on macadamia flowers in Zimbabwe🇿🇼. Au-pairing in Italy years ago, I stayed with bee-keepers (apicoltori) who marketed each honey type according to the flowers the bees frequented. Eucalyptus honey, lavendar etc.
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Kate Chambers
1 year
Haka Park, Harare.
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6 years
Haka Park on a Sunday afternoon in winter. Harare, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
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