From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the
city of
Harare ,
Zimbabwe .
Prior to 20th century
20th century
1902
Botswana-Salisbury railway begins operating.
Queen Victoria Memorial Library founded.
[4]
1915 –
Meikles Hotel in business.
1923 – Town becomes capital of
Southern Rhodesia , a self-governing British colony.
1927 –
Salisbury Technical School established.
1933 – Town House built.
[6]
1936 – Library of the
National Archives founded.
[7]
1939 – Honorary Consulate of
Poland opened.
[8]
1945 – Railway strike.
[9]
1946
Reformed Industrial and Commercial Workers Union established.
[10]
Population: 54,090.
[11]
1948
General strike.
[10]
Zimbabwe College of Music established.
1950 – Gwebe College of Agriculture established.
1951
Stock exchange established.
Population: 90,024.
[11]
1953
1955 –
University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Salisbury City Youth League
[13] established.
1956
1957 –
Rhodes National Gallery opens.
[15]
[16]
1959 – Pearl Assurance House built.
1960 – Central Film Laboratories in business.
[17]
1962
First International Congress of African Culture held in city.
[16]
Queen Victoria Memorial Library rebuilt.
[18]
1964 – Greenwood Park established.
[6]
1969 –
The Financial Gazette begins publication.
View of the city in the 1970s
1980s–1990s
Harare in the 1990s
21st century
Aerial view of Harare, circa 2005
2000s
2010s
See also
References
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^
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^ Robert Wedgeworth, ed. (1993),
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^
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^
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^ Ceranka, Paweł; Szczepanik, Krzysztof (2020). Urzędy konsularne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918–1945. Informator archiwalny (in Polish). Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych,
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ISBN
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^ Kenneth P. Vickery (1998). "The Rhodesia Railways African Strike of 1945, Part I: A Narrative Account". Journal of Southern African Studies . 24 (3): 545–560.
doi :
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JSTOR
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^
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b
Terence Ranger (1985),
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ISBN
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^
a
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^ Michael Oliver West (2002). The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898 – 1965 . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0253215242 .
^ Timothy Scarnecchia (2008), The urban roots of democracy and political violence in Zimbabwe , University of Rochester Press,
ISBN
9781580462815
^
"History" . National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Archived from
the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^
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b
"Southern Africa, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events" . Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art . Retrieved 30 August 2015 .
^ Katrina Daly Thompson (2013), Zimbabwe's cinematic arts , Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
ISBN
9780253006462
^
About Us , Harare City Library, retrieved 30 September 2014
^
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Statistical Office (1976).
"Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . New York. pp. 253–279. Salisbury {{
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link )
^ Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo, ed. (2009), Becoming Zimbabwe , Harare: Weaver Press,
ISBN
9781779220837
^ Andrew Norman (2004), Robert Mugabe and the betrayal of Zimbabwe , Jefferson, N.C: McFarland Publishers,
ISBN
0786416866
^
Historical Buildings , City of Harare, archived from
the original on 31 August 2015
^
"Zimbabwe's capital to be renamed Harare" . The New York Times . 19 April 1982.
^ "Zimbabwe: Directory".
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Europa Publications . 2004.
ISBN
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^
"Cincinnati USA Sister City Association" . US. Archived from
the original on 19 May 2013.
^
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York: United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division. 1997. pp. 262–321.
^
"Movie Theaters in Harare, Zimbabwe" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^
ArchNet .
"Harare" . US:
MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from
the original on 7 October 2012.
^
"Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe" . Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe. Archived from
the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^ Alois S. Mlambo (2014). "Timeline".
History of Zimbabwe . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-1-107-02170-9 .
^
"Organizational Profile" . Harare: Media Monitoring Project.
Archived from the original on 11 March 2012.
^
"Demise of Herare" . The Financial Gazette . 13 February 2013. [
permanent dead link ]
^
a
b
Jon Lee Anderson (27 October 2008).
"Letter from Zimbabwe" . The New Yorker .
^
Kwame Anthony Appiah and
Henry Louis Gates , ed. (2005).
"Harare, Zimbabwe" .
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-517055-9 .
^
"His Worship the Mayor" . City of Harare. Archived from
the original on 15 May 2013.
^
"Profiles: Harare Residents' Trust Board of Trustees" . The Zimbabwean . UK. 29 August 2012. Archived from
the original on 28 June 2013.
^
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2011 .
United Nations Statistics Division . 2012.
^ Karen Fung,
African Studies Association (ed.).
"Zimbabwe Newspapers and News on the Internet" . Africa South of the Sahara . US. Retrieved 15 May 2013 – via Stanford University.
^
"Zimbabwe Fashion Week getting better" ,
The Standard , 8 September 2013
^
"Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" , Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
^
"Mayor" . City of Harare. Archived from
the original on 31 August 2015.
Bibliography
Published in 20th century
Neil Dewar (1991). "Harare". In Anthony Lemon (ed.).
Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
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Terri Barnes;
Everjoice Win (1992), To live a better life: an oral history of women in the city of Harare, 1930–70 , Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab Books,
ISBN
0908311354
Carole Rakodi (1995),
Harare: Inheriting a Settler-Colonial City; Change or Continuity? , John Wiley & Sons,
ISBN
9780471949510
Nelson T. Samburenia (1996). "Emergence of independent African trade unions in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 1920s to 1950s: Toward mass nationalism?".
Kleio . 28 .
Timothy Scarnecchia (1996). "Poor Women and Nationalist Politics: Alliances and Fissures in the Formation of a Nationalist Political Movement in Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1950-6". Journal of African History . 37 (2): 283–310.
doi :
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JSTOR
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S2CID
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Kinuthia Macharia (1997).
Social and political dynamics of the informal economy in African cities: Nairobi and Harare . University Press of America.
ISBN
978-0-7618-0840-4 .
Teresa A. Barnes (1999), 'We Women Worked so Hard': Gender, Urbanization and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930–1956 , Heinemann,
ISBN
9780325001739
Patrick Bond (1999). "Capital in the city: a history of urban financialflows through colonial Harare". In Brian Raftopoulos and Tsuneo Yoshikuni (ed.). Sites of Struggle . Weaver Press Ltd.
ISBN
0797419845 .
Published in 21st century
Governing the Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe , Sweden:
Nordic Africa Institute , 2002 – via
International Relations and Security Network
Oyekan Owomoyela (2002). "Introduction: Cities: Harare".
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe . Greenwood. p. 7+.
ISBN
978-0-313-31583-1 .
Stanley D. Brunn; et al., eds. (2003),
"Harare" , Cities of the World (3rd ed.), Rowman & Littlefield,
ISBN
084769898X
Alois Mlambo (2003). "Harare". In Dickson Eyoh and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (ed.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge.
ISBN
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Luc J. A. Mougeot, ed. (2005). "(Harare)". Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture .
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ISBN
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Kevin Shillington , ed. (2005). "Harare". Encyclopedia of African History . Fitzroy Dearborn.
ISBN
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Amin Y. Kamete (2006). "The Return of the Jettisoned: ZANU-PF's Crack at 'Re-Urbanising' in Harare". Journal of Southern African Studies . 32 (2): 255–271.
Bibcode :
2006JSAfS..32..255K .
doi :
10.1080/03057070600656143 .
JSTOR
25065091 .
S2CID
153859378 .
Terence O. Ranger (2007).
"City Versus State in Zimbabwe: Colonial Antecedents of the Current Crisis" .
Journal of Eastern African Studies . 1 (2): 161–192.
doi :
10.1080/17531050701452390 .
S2CID
154586516 .
(Includes information about Harare)
Innocent Chirisa (28 November 2012), "Social Capital Dynamics in the Post-colonial Harare Urbanscape", in Joseph D. Lewandowski and Gregory W. Streich (ed.),
Urban social capital , Burlington, VT: Ashgate (published 2011), p. 199+,
ISBN
9781409412243
External links
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