Tsanzaguru (formerly Sanzaguru) is a township, commuter zone, in the province of

Manicaland Manicaland is a Provinces of Zimbabwe, province in eastern Zimbabwe. After Harare Province, it is the country's second-most populous province, with a population of 2.037 million, as of the 2012 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census. After Harare and Bulawa ...

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

located 10 km south of

Rusape Rusape is a town in Zimbabwe. Location It is located in Makoni District in Manicaland Province, in northeastern Zimbabwe. It lies approximately , by road, southeast of Harare, the capital and the largest city in Zimbabwe. Rusape is situated on ...

in the Makoni West constituency. It is situated by the riverside overlying the

Rusape Dam Rusape Dam is an in-land man-made water body in the outskirts of Rusape adjacent to Tsanzaguru, Zimbabwe, specifically built as a reservoir lake for irrigation in the usually dry southeastern part of Zimbabwe and water supply for the town of Rusape ...

. Named after the kopje, Tsanzaguru, in the overlying village area of Headman Dzvairo, who is under Chief Makoni. The township is under Rusape Town Council and almost three quarters of the small employed population are employed by government either in the army, education or other government enterprises.

History

The name Tsanzaguru is derived from the

Rozvi The Rozvi Empire (1684–1866) was a Shona state established on the Zimbabwean Plateau by Changamire Dombo. The term "Rozvi" refers to their legacy as a warrior nation, taken from the Shona term ''kurozva'', "to plunder". They became the mo ...

meaning of a big, rocky and tall kopje from which the Rozvi were known to have wanted to build to the

moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

from there. They are said to have wanted to bring the moon to the King's Zunde Ramambo as a gift. It is from this background that all traditional Chiefs countrywide have their badges designed in a circular form resembling the circular dream moon that the Rozvi wanted to bring their king.oral narratives from the Makoni Chieftainship in research by Dunmore Kusano on food security 2009 There are two main schools, Tsanzaguru Primary and Sanzaguru High School, all of which service the educational needs of the township and the neighbouring villages. It is serviced with a very good clinic.

References

Populated places in Manicaland Province {{Zimbabwe-geo-stub