Defence (Cantonment) (Zimbabwe Defences Forces) Notice, 2026, (No. 56)

The Minister of Defence has re-declared two cantonment areas, replacing the coordinates published for them in S.I. 210 of 2025.

The Goromonzi cantonment is a piece of land in Ruwa forming part of James Farm, covering 8.596 square kilometres — 859.6 hectares — on map sheet Goromonzi 1731 C4 at 1:50,000. Its corners are given both in UTM Zone 36K and as the Military Grid references UR195254, UR226255, UR224224 and UR197224.

The Falcon cantonment is 75.2 hectares in Harare, on the 1:50,000 Harare sheet, bounded by fourteen listed points in grid square 36KTF.

Declaring land a cantonment brings it under Part IX of the Defence Act, the part that governs military areas and access to them. For anyone with land, business or a right of way near these boundaries, the practical question is whether their ground now falls inside one — and the answer is on the plan, which may be inspected free of charge at the office of the Secretary of Defence, Defence House, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Harare.

The notice does not describe what changed against the 2025 coordinates, and it does not state a commencement date beyond its gazetting on 13 February 2026.