Declaration of National Monument Matabeleland North Provincial Heroes Acre Monument

The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has declared the Matabeleland North Provincial Heroes Acre a national monument.

The site is in Lupane District, on the edges of the roads to Nkayi and Benzies bridge, and covers about thirty-seven thousand eight hundred square metres (37 800m²).

The boundary is an irregular polygon: from point A, 187,04m west to B, then 192,26m north to C, then 180m west to D, then 210m directly south back to A. The instrument says the polygon is shown on an attached survey map, which is not reproduced in the gazette text — so the precise position on the ground has to be taken from that map.

Declaration brings the Heroes Acre under the National Museums and Monuments Act, so alteration, damage, removal of anything from the site, and development within the boundary all require authority from National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe.

The stated area and the listed bearings do not obviously reconcile as a closed figure, which is another reason to work from the survey map rather than the written description.