[5] The school is situated some five kilometres south of Marondera in extensive grounds surrounded by many hectares of indigenous miombo woodland and exotic eucalyptus plantations.

[7] The old Ruzawi Inn, for many years a staging post on the carriage and wagon route from the capital to the eastern border, was up for sale.

Neither the new road nor the recently built railway passed close to the Inn, which was no longer, an essential stopping place for travelers.

The bedrooms, dining room, kitchen and ancillary buildings proved ideal as both accommodation and classrooms for the newly established boys' boarding school.

[14] The motto is of special interest suggested to us in 1921 by Canon Arthur Davies, Principal of St. John's College, Agra, and later Dean of Worcester.

[14][16] Ruzawi School offers the following sports: athletics,[17] cricket,[18] cross-country,[19] hockey,[20] netball,[21] rugby,[22] swimming[23] and tennis.

The link between the houses, comes from the apt and fierce competition between Julian and Kingsley at Oxford University in the sport of Boxing.