Mount Selinda

Mount Selinda is a village and mission station in Manicaland Province in the eastern mountains of Zimbabwe, near the Mozambique border, at an altitude of 1,100 metres. It sits on an east-facing slope at the edge of the Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve, the southernmost tropical rainforest in Africa. The Ndau people, whose language is chiNdau, are the dominant group and mostly live by subsistence farming. Local people called the area Chirinda, meaning lookout, and the name Selinda is an English corruption of the Shangani pronunciation. American Board missionaries obtained land there from Cecil Rhodes and bought a farm called Mount Selinda for 300 pounds.