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Southern and East Africa plug into shared power future

Zambia and Zimbabwe have each committed US$220 million to restarting the long-delayed $4.2 billion Batoka Gorge Hydropower Station near Victoria Falls

Boom: It’s not only international tourists travelling in Zambia, locals are exploring too. Photo: Zambia Tourism Agency

Zambia tourism taking off

In the past three years, Zambia has recorded a nearly 300% increase in international tourist arrivals, following the removal of visa fees

Luxury experience: The Anantara Stanley & Livingstone Victoria Falls Hotel, in Zimbabwe

Falls and a bathtub with a view

A trip to Zimbabwe and Zambia, where nature meets luxury – but it does not come cheap

Mosi-oa-Tunya or as it is currently known, Victoria Falls. (Nana Thiam/Unesco)

Victoria Falls rises again

One of Africa’s top tourist attractions has a strategy to encourage travellers to return: mass vaccination.

Without action “there will be no tomorrow”, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Environmental destruction is the human rights challenge of our time: Archbishop Tutu

World leaders must choose between life or death for humanity, say climate justice activists at 10th Desmond Tutu international peace lecture

Renovations and improvements are the order of the day for Cresta Hotels, which also opened Cresta Sprayview at Victoria Falls. Chipo Mandela, Country Director in Zimbabwe of Cresta Hotels Zimbabwe.

Cresta upgrades hotels to accommodate Zim tourist increase

In response to questions from the Mail & Guardian, the country director in Zimbabwe of Cresta Hotels, Chipo Mandela, said:

In addition to being a tourist attraction

Warm, friendly Zambia should be on foreign tourism radar

A meander through "the sweetest country" leads to all kinds of finds: local musician JK, the Lusaka National Museum and Zamtel telecom outlets.

The three-day New Year’s Eve music festival kicks off today in Victoria Falls

Don’t miss this: The Vic Falls Carnival

The three-day music and adventure festival returns for the third year running.

Barking up the right tree

Cat Pritchard ventures to the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls to ‘join the treevolution’ by helping to plant 5 000 trees in three weeks.

Zimbabwe’s tourism earnings last year jumped to $750-million, with the Victoria Falls being the biggest drawcard. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP)

Zimbabwe bridges the tourism divide as visitors return

The “interview” is conducted while we dangle from a rope off the Victoria Falls bridge, over 100m above the raging Zambezi.

Goofy plans for Vic Falls

After successfully hosting a major United Nations event, Zimbabwe Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi can be forgiven for talking big.

A man somersaults into a pool near the edge of the 110m-high Victoria Falls

Zimbabwe’s tourism triumph turns sour

An official has revealed that Zimbabwe made promises it cannot keep to win a UN World Tourism Organisation conference bid. Ray Ndlovu reports.

Victoria Falls heritage status threatened

One of Africa’s most famous landmarks, Victoria Falls, is in danger of losing its status as a world heritage site.

SA firms tough it out in Zimbabwe

South African firms are resisting the urge to pull out of Zimbabwe despite an increasingly hostile business climate.

Falling for Victoria

Musi wa Thunya, Setswana for ”the smoke that thunders”, is the South African name for the glorious falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Top Zim opposition figure arrested

The leader of a rebel faction of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change became the most senior opposition politician to be arrested when he was held on Sunday over a written…

Zim wants to cash in on 2010 Cup

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CZC) has described as ”scandalous” the decision by Zimbabwe to spend up to -million on sprucing up hotels and its infrastructure to cash in on…