How to get here: 

Leave Harare on the Borrowdale Road, distances are from Borrowdale police station, 13.4 KM the road crosses a grid and enters the Chinamora Communal Lands, 16.3 KM pass the signpost to Domboshava National Monument, 26.6 KM turn-right at the signpost to Ngomakurira National Monument, onto a gravel road, 27.2 KM ford small stream, 27.9 KM turn left towards the hill and at sign post to Ngomakurira National Monument, 28.1 KM reach car park.

The Ngomakurira site is managed by the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, who with the Zimbabwe Republic Police are based at the entrance to the site. They will need to be a lot more active than they are at present and physically patrol the area if they are to prevent the actual damage that is being caused to national treasures in the past few decades. Makumbe Cave (see the separate article) just a few kilometres away and considered by Elizabeth Goodall and Peter Garlake to be the finest rock art site in the country has been totally destroyed by the smoky fires of members of the Apostolic Church sect within the last decade.

Additionally, there are concerns at the illegal tree-cutting free for all, which has already created a “highway” to the rear of the site where cut logs are dragged from the site and secondly, the practice of driving up the massif and "kissing the beacon" which is causing damage to the ground surfaces; both activities will result in accelerated soil erosion. The Authorities should curb both these practices, before this permissive culture results in environmental damage that cannot be undone.

To view the San rock art paintings of the large elephants, follow the path to the trig beacon, but walk over in a westerly direction and down the granite face, instead of turning right for the summit and follow the painted arrows. A short scramble downwards leads to a treed-hollow set in the mountainside and within a vaulted shelter where these paintings can be viewed. 

Sadly, vandals have comprehensively wrecked this frieze; most probably by schoolchildren writing their names using charcoal, but the “Mount Zion” indicates that Apostolic Church members may also have been responsible for the damage. Much of the graffiti is 3-4 metres high; indicating some sort of scaffolding was constructed from tree branches.

This kind of graffiti and smoke damage from the fires of Apostolic Church members who camp out overnight is becoming much more prevalent, as is evidence of their overnight vigils in the form of baby diapers, plastic containers, and mess everywhere they go

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