Ngundu
Ngundu is a village in Chivi District in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe. Pre-1950 Ngundu Halt was a stopping point for the Rhodesia Railways Road Motor Service, or RMS. There was a small roof topped structure with a secure door where the mailbag was dropped for Triangle Estates and for other residents in the Lowveld. The road was tar strips on the Fort Victoria (now Masvingo) - Beit Bridge road, and dirt from the halt to Triangle. Local bus services stopped there and small traders selling corn on the cob and other travel-related foods did a brisk trade when the buses stopped. Rufus Paul noted that it was a point at which there was a need for a filling station and a country store. He applied to the Native Commissioner for a permit to build both and homes for himself and his staff, the NC allowed this, and for a small annual rent, £4.00, a four-acre plot was allocated and Paul's Ngundu Store was born. This was about 1948. There was a drought in 1950. Many villagers were unable to reap for their household use, and they borrowed a bag of maize (corn) at a time as required. All bar one