Naletale

Naletale (or Nalatale) are ruins located about 25 kilometres east of Shangani in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe and east of the Danangombe ruins.[1]

Naletale wall

The ruins are attributed to the Kalanga Torwa State and are thought to date from the seventeenth century, and were occupied through the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries during Rozvi rule.[2] The ruins are the remains of the capital of the Butua kingdom's Torwa dynasty. In 1960, it was declared a national monument.[3]

  1. ^ "Naletale Monument". Pindula. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  2. ^ Machiridza, Lesley Hatipone (1 September 2020). "Landscapes and Ethnicity: An Historical Archaeology of Khami-Phase Sites in Southwestern Zimbabwe". Historical Archaeology. 54 (3): 647–675. doi:10.1007/s41636-020-00259-z. ISSN 2328-1103.
  3. ^ "Nalatale Ruins". World Monuments Fund. Retrieved 3 July 2024.