Declaration of National Monument Gonakudzingwa Detention Camp Monument

The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has declared the Gonakudzingwa Detention Camp a National Monument under section 20 of the National Museums and Monuments Act [Chapter 25:11].

The camp is in Chiredzi District, on Surveyor-General's 1:50 000 map sheets 2231 B1 and B3, Malvernia. The notice fixes the protected area by an eight-point polygon starting at grid reference UL 642 596 and running through points B to H — a series of 200m cross-legs joined by longer runs of 1 607m, 2 133,64m, 1 934,64m and 1 807m — back to the starting point.

Declaration brings the site under the Act's protection: alteration, excavation, damage or development requires the approval of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe. The notice imposes no fees and creates no separate offence.

No commencement date is stated; the notice was gazetted on 26 July 2024. One caveat on the survey description: the leg from F to G is written out in words as one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three point six four metres but printed in figures as 1 934,64m. The surveyed diagram, not the gazette text, should be relied on for the exact boundary.