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A contemporaneous postal cancellation sanctioned by the government at Salisbury portrays Great Zimbabwe and reads "The Riddle of Zimbabwe" (Proud 1997:212), implying a foreign foundation for this African monument. A Zimbabwean state-run newspaper mentioned that "the tourists can then top it all by flaunting their slim bodies on a sun-downer cruise on the Zambezi or surveying the majestic Great Zimbabwe ruins. Previously, he had set his entombment sights on Great Zimbabwe, the medieval stone structures that filled the colonialists with wonderment, prompting them to speculate wildly about the identity of its "white" builders, it being considered axiomatic that "natives" were incapable of such an amazing architectural feat. |
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