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Video showing M18-8 clip from Brian Iles's film of his return flight from RAF Jever to Bulawayo, Africa in his Miles M-18 light aircraft on Tuesday 20th July 1954.   Here are some more shots of their leave in and around Bulawayo.   Today Bulawayo is Zimbabwe's second largest city.   Located in the South-west of the country, it is home to a cosmopolitan people.   The Bulawayo area has been populated since prehistoric times.   The San (Bushman) people painted their delicate pictures in the caves of the Matobo Hills, the Rozvi kings built a stone city at Khami and the Ndebele nation gave the city its name.   The city has wide tree lined streets and is surrounded by beautiful parks, a legacy of Cecil John Rhodes.   There are many places to see from a tourist point of view.   This clip begins with views of the main street, then a bird in a cage, followed by what might be Sandy's parents.   It looks like Brian playing some type of ball game and then shows Sandy introducing presumably the family car.   Next there are scenes of a rugby match with Sandy in the stadium watching.   Then Sandy is seen with some of the local colour, leading in to a sign for a place which I cannot read.   It maybe "The University" - the subsequent shots of the buildings look similar to the architecture in the modern pictures of the University.   They are shown leaving in a Mercedes for a sightseeing tour of what looks like The Matopas Park which is located 34 Kilometres south of Bulawayo City Centre, covering an area of 43 200 hectares, the park is positioned in the marvelous Matobo Hills, which are constitute of a series of domes, spires and balancing rock formations cut out of granite solid granite plateau by mother nature through millions and millions years of erosion and weathering.   King Mzilikazi gave the district the name Matobo - 'bald heads'-, he was buried in the Matobo Hills.   Cecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matobo National Park, at the summit of Malindidzimu -'hill of benevolent spirits'.   A place for which signs can be seen - Rhodes referred to it as the "View of the world."   (If we have any viewers in Bulawayo they might like to identify some of the views?)

There is no sound with this clip.   This clip runs for 4 mins 5 secs.

(Thanks to Toby Iles for original film.)
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