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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Fall of Msasa Tree,National Monument of Zimbabwe


The 200-year-old Msasa tree, declared a Historic Site and National Monument of Zimbabwe fell on Wednesday Dec 07,2011 after it was hit by a workers' truck and collapsed onto one of its strong branches in the middle of the street.
The felling of Zimbabwe's famed colonial-era "Hanging Tree" is reviving legends and superstitions and has many believing it signals a new era for this troubled southern African nation - Zimbabwe.
Icons of the first uprising against white settlers, including the ancestral grandmother of the nation Mbuya Nehanda, were said to have been hanged from the tree in 1898.

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