| Marondera, Zimbabwe | |
| Motto: Floreat Marondera (May Marondera Flourish) | |
  Marondera, Zimbabwe
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| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Province | Mashonaland East |
| District | Marondera |
| Population (2002) | |
| - Total | 46,000 |
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| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+1) |
Marondera, formerly known as Marandellas, is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72km east of Harare; population 39,384 (Central Statistical Office, Zimbabwe. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group See also Great Zimbabwe National Monument. For information about the March and June 2008 presidential elections see Zimbabwean presidential election |||} Zimbabwe is divided into 8 Provinces and 2 cities with provincial status Bulawayo (city Harare (city Manicaland Mashonaland East is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32230 km² and a population of approximately 1 |||} The Provinces of Zimbabwe are divided into 59 districts and 1200 municipalities Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Mashonaland East is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32230 km² and a population of approximately 1 See also Great Zimbabwe National Monument. For information about the March and June 2008 presidential elections see Zimbabwean presidential election Harare (həˈrɑreɪ or /həˈrɑri/ formerly Salisbury) is the Capital of Zimbabwe. Census of Population, 1992. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The population was estimated at 46,000 in 2002. Harare: Government Printer). One of the earliest centres of white settlement in the former colony of Southern Rhodesia, Marondera was one of the centres of Zimbabwe's large forestry and farming district and markets timber, tobacco, corn (maize), beef, and dairy products until the seizure of white-owned farms and redistribution of land began in 2000. Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British Colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa, and known today as Zimbabwe Land reform in Zimbabwe began after the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 in an effort to more equitably distribute land between the historically disenfranchised 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
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History
It originated in 1890 as a rest house on the road from Harare (formerly Salisbury) to Mutare (formerly Umtali) and was named for Marondera, chief of the ruling Barozwi people. Destroyed in the Shona resistance of 1896, the town was moved 4 miles (6 km) north to the Harare-Beira railway line. During the South African (Boer) War it was used by the British as a staging point for military operations into the Transvaal, and in World War II it was a refuge for displaced Poles. Two Boer Wars were fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics the Orange Free State and the South African Republic For the Russian theme park see Transvaal Park. The Transvaal (Afrikaans lit World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Polish people, or Poles, (Polacy) are a Western Slavic Ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. It is an educational centre and the site of the Grasslands Research Station. Constituted a village in 1913, it became a town in 1943. Pop. (1982) 19,971.
Demographics
The town is multi-cultural, with a variety of ethnic groups. Within the African population is a proportion of people of Malawian origin whose parents migrated and took employment on the white owned tobacco farms which the local people would have shunned because of poor living conditions. The Republic of Malawi (məˈlɑːwi or; formerly Nyasaland) is in southern Africa. The main faiths in Marondera are secular traditional christians, evangelicals and mapostori(a sect of old testament bible followers who live like ancient prophets and may dress in white robes). Islam is practised by a small number of people in Marondera Asians and those people of Malawian descent. For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. Asian or Asiatic is a Demonym for people from Asia. However the use of the term varies by country and person often referring to people from a particular The indegenous people of Marondera descend mainly from the Shona royal families of Svosve, and the nearby royal households of Chikwaka and Nyashanu. Shona (ˈʃoʊnə is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique. They are traditionally peasant farmers. Marondera has several very good schools, which have been in operation for many years, however, in recent times many of these schools are struggling, due to the economic and social problems facing Zimbabwe. The junior schools include Godfrey Huggins, Tapfuma School, Dombotombo School, Springvale House, Digglefold & Ruzawi School & the senior schools are Marondera High School, Peterhouse Group of Boarding Schools,Rakodzi High, Watershed, Bernard Mzeki College, Waddilove High School & Nagle House. Marondera High School is a Co-educational secondary school located one and half miles from the Marondera town centre in Mashonaland East Province, The Peterhouse group of schools is based in Marondera, Zimbabwe. The first black mayor of Marondera was T. K. Muronda in 1980. [1]
References
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