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Worldwide Movers Africa is the first moving company in Africa to offer multi-national relocation operations.
Worldwide Movers strategy of forming partnerships with local removals professionals creates a synergy uniting global relationships with regional expertise. This has been a recipe for success in eleven African countries to date.
Since establishing the first branch in Tanzania in 1993, Worldwide Movers Africa has consistently added new country operations across the continent. WWM is now represented in Burundi, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and now, Zimbabwe. The company plans to open additional branches in Sub-Sahara Africa in the coming years.
The company's primary activities include: household removals (International domestic and local), office shifting, warehousing, customs clearing, packing crating and transport (air, sea and land)
WWM is a member of: Household Goods Forwarders Assoc. of America (HHGFAA), American Moving & Storage Assoc. (AMSA), South African Intl. Movers Assoc. (SAIMA). Additionally, WWM Uganda is certified by the prestigious International Federation of Intl. Removers (FIDI).
WWM's emphasis on quality extends from the caliber of packing materials used to the extensive and on-going training provided to its staff. The memberships above, coupled with long-term personal relationships with leading global removals organizations, ensure the same high degree of excellence is provided at both ends of every move. This year alone the WWM Group will handle over 2,000 individual removals.
Alongside its professional focus Worldwide Movers Africa maintains a strong social commitment. Worldwide Movers Africa has sponsored everything from a motorcycle caravan from Durban to Kampala in support of AIDs awareness to around-the-corner support for the needy. This was followed by a Nile raft expedition from Kampala to Alexandria promoting the same theme. WWM also contributes to local sporting events for the under privileged as well as various charities.
Formerly named after Cecil Rhodes, Southern Rhodesia was founded in 1890 as a trading post and hub for farming and mining activities and then became Rhodesia under a federation that included Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, now Malawi. The Unilateral Declaration of Indepenence that heralded the start of the war of independence that continued until the creation of the Republic of Zimbabwe under the promising stewardship of Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party.
Since 2000 the economy in Zimbabwe has steadily declined. After rising during the 1990s, confiscation of farms saw agricultural production wither and slashing revenue from cash crops such as tobacco and maize. This had an ugly impact on the Zimbabwean economy, where thousands of jobs were lost due to companies closing down or simply being unable to pay staff wages.
Several have also pulled out of Zimbabwe. 's , 's and were among the first to pull out and most recently suspended all direct flights to Harare.The country's flagship airline still flies to the United Kingdom and to some contiguous states.
However, Zimbabwe boasts several tourist attractions. Before the economic meltdown, much of the Victoria Falls tourism came to the Zimbabwean side but now Zambia benefits from the turmoil in the country. The are a series of mountainous areas near the border with Mozambique. The highest peak in Zimbabwe, at 2593 metres is located here as well as the and the . is in these mountains and it is from here that places as far away as 60–70 km are visible.
Zimbabwe is unusual in Africa in that there are a large number of ancient ruined cities built in a unique dry stone style. The most famous of these are the ruins in which survive from the Empire. Other ruins include , and however none of these ruins have received as much publicity as those Great Zimbabwe.
The are an area of and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres south of , southern Zimbabwe. The Hills were formed over 2000 million years ago with granite being forced to the surface, this has eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken kopjes, strewn with boulders and interspersed with thickets of vegetation. , founder of the nation, gave the area its name, meaning 'Bald Heads'. They have become famous and a tourist attraction because famous for his vision that led to foundation of , and other early white pioneers like , Major , and most of the members of the are buried in these hills at another site named World's View
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