Declaration of National Monument Kamungoma Massacre Monument.pdf

The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has declared Kamungoma a National Monument under the National Museums and Monuments Act.

The site is on farm 340 of Dewure Purchase Land in Gutu District, Masvingo Province, on map sheet 1931D3 of the Surveyor-General's 1:50 000 series. The declared area is a closed five-sided block: from a paddock corner post at grid reference UP533 152, north-west along the fence line 96,49m; north-west a further 116,57m to a stream bank; north-east along the stream 269,21m; south-east 266,59m to the fence line; then south-west along the fence 340,06m back to the start.

Declaration as a National Monument brings the site under the protection of the Act. In practice that means the ground within those boundaries cannot be altered, excavated, built on or otherwise interfered with without the authority of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, and existing land users inside the boundary need to work with NMMZ.

Kamungoma commemorates a massacre of civilians during the liberation war. The declaration is one of a group of monument declarations gazetted on 26 July 2024, alongside Altena Farm (S.I. 128 of 2024) and Harare Kopje (S.I. 133 of 2024).

The instrument states no commencement date and prescribes no fees or penalties of its own; those flow from the parent Act.