The Sanyati Expedition 1959

August 1959 nineteen schoolboys, including eleven from Que Que High School and eight adults, spent twelve days camping on the banks of the Sanyati River, about forty miles from Kariba.

The Sanyati Expedtion 1959

Many thanks to Tess (nee Banfield) Harris (and Phil for scanning) for ferreting out the back issues of Que Que High School Magazine and coming across this gem (with a French poem by Tess thrown in for good measure):

During the August holidays, 1959, a party of nineteen schoolboys, including my brother Brian, Phil Harris and Gavin Alcock and eight others from Que Que High School, and eight adults, spent twelve days camping on the banks of the Sanyati River about forty miles from Kariba.  Their purpose was to collect scientific data for the Midlands Branch of the Rhodesian Schools Exploration society which arranged the expedition.  The party travelled in two five ton trucks, one of which had been kindly lent by the Globe and Pheonix Mine and the other by Mr. C. Fletcher.  The route to the base camp was long and tedious and very hot.  The journey took two days, and on the first day we had cold lunch at Gokwe and slept the night at a Native Commisionsers Camp, nicknamed “Picadilly Circus” some sixty miles north of Gokwe.