Zimbabwe

DVD. African Secrets. 30 Minutes. Filmed at Mwanga Lodge in Northern Zimbabwe, this episode showcases various species of game roaming the country’s planes. With the aid of old bones, Gordon and Debbie Putterill, who run the place, describe the living habits of the animals on show. Every skull, every shinbone, every tooth - has a story behind it, which Gordon and Debbie expertly build up....

DVD. African Secrets. 30 Minutes. Filmed around Hippo Pools Wilderness camp, this episode reveals some of the creatures crawling on the earth’s surface, or flying above it - all of them hitherto taken for granted. The program captures creatures such as the Scarlett-chested Sunbird, the Forktailed Drongo, the Firefinch, the Golden-breasted Bunting, the Golden-tailed Woodpecker, the Leguaan, the Agama, the Klipspringer and the rock Dassie,...

DVD. African Secrets. 30 Minutes. Like the title says, this is the story of the crocodile inhabiting the waters of the Zambezi River. Although it belongs to the Nile crocodile species, we were tempted to call it the Zambezi crocodile, to give it a name closer to home. This episode explores some of the tourist attractions along the Zambezi escarpment before scaring us with the...

DVD. Nature Wonders. 10 Minutes. Located in the south of the African continent and located on the Zambia/Zimbabwe border, Victoria Falls are one of the world's most amazing and impressive wonders of nature. Between February and March, when the Zambesi is at its strongest, an average of more than 500 million liters of water shoot over edge of the waterfall every minute. Indeed, the dimensions...

DVD. African Secrets. 30 Minutes. This program looks at the visual arts industry in Zimbabwe. It shows various artists at work as well as some of the cultural products displayed and sold in some of Zimbabwe’s galleries. The episode focuses on stone and metal sculpture, painting, batik printing, basket weaving and pottery among other forms of art. It unveils the secret behind artist’s conceptualisation of...