Malindidzimu

Malindidzimu ("Hill of the Ancestral Spirits" in Kalanga) is a granite inselberg and a national historical monument situated in the Matobo National Park[1] in south-west Zimbabwe, c. 40 kilometers south of Bulawayo.

[2] It is considered a sacred place by nationalists and indigenous groups as a shrine to the Shona supreme deity Mwari.

[3][4][5] Cecil Rhodes is buried on the summit of Malindidizumu, together with Sir Charles Coghlan, Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Allan Wilson and several other white settlers.

[citation needed] Traditional Shona kingdoms were theocratic, and Rhodes' request to be buried there has been interpreted as a gesture of colonial triumph and conquest over indigenous Africans and their religious belief systems.

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