Harare small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the British prime minister Lord Salisbury. Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia achieved responsible government in 1923. Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation. It retained the name Salisbury until 1982, when it was renamed Harare on the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence. Harare is Zimbabwe's leading political, financial, commercial, and communications centre, as well as a trade centre for tobacco, maize, cotton, and
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Harare Sacred Heart Cathedral, Harare The Sacred Heart Cathedral is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and is located on the Fourth Street of the town of Harare, capital of the African country of Zimbabwe. It serves as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Harare ("Archidioecesis Hararensis"). It follows the Roman or Latin rite and was dedicated as its name indicates to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a Catholic devotion tradition referred to the heart of Jesus of Nazareth. Due to the varied composition of the congregation most Masses are held in