Defence (Cantonment) (Zimbabwe Military Academy) Notice, (no. 53)

The Minister of Defence has, under section 89 of the Defence Act, declared the areas in the Schedule to be cantonments for the purposes of Part IX of that Act, and repealed the Defence (Cantonments) (Southern Rhodesia) Notice, 1967.

The Schedule leads with the Zimbabwe Military Academy in Gweru: 1 304 hectares of Gweru township land, bounded by the CBD and Windsor Park to the north, Coolmoreen and Senga to the east, Shurugwi and Vungu districts to the south and Southdowns, Ivene and Lundi Park to the west, described by 1:50 000 map sheets held by the Surveyor-General in Bulawayo and by survey coordinates.

It continues with defence properties around the country — Balkiza, Little Connemara, Nagenoeg, Tsanga Lodge, Masue Army Camp, the ZDF Officers Mess, Mushandike, Decadrum, the Bikita and Chatsworth rifle ranges, Chikwerengwe, Green Valley, Gabriel and Goodhope farms and the Harare Base Workshop among them.

Cantonment status brings each area under Part IX of the Defence Act, which controls entry, use and activity on defence land.

This notice and S.I. 74 of 2025, gazetted eleven days later, carry the same number (No. 53) and the same schedule — the later instrument appears to republish the same declaration under a Zimbabwe Defence Forces heading.