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
The Avenues, Harare The Avenues, Harare The Avenues is a mixed purpose suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe. It consists of blocks of apartments, businesses and diplomatic missions. The suburb is laid out in the form of a rectangular grid, about 1 km to the north of the central business district. on the other side of the Harare Gardens.The area is traversed by all the major thoroughfares to the northern suburbs. These include Prince Edward St(western boundary), Leopald Takawira Ave, Sam Nujoma St(2nd st), 4th Street, 7th Street(Borrowdale Rd). The streets run north to south and the mostly beautiful tree lined avenues run east to