A curated marketplace protecting and promoting Zimbabwean heritage. Creatives keep 65% of every sale, and 10% funds the ZTA's #ZimBho campaigns.
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Are you a Zimbabwean creative? Upload your work and earn on every download.
Guided Zambezi and Hwange journeys, run by local guides.
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SponsoredMosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders
Sunrise over the Victoria Falls gorge
SponsoredElephant herd at the waterhole
Rainbow in the spray over the gorge
Palm-lined avenue in Harare
City tower beside the bridge
Entering Zimbabwe
Spices piled high at the market
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Bridge across the misty gorge
Fruit trader setting up for the day
Tending the maize rows
Chitenge fabrics on display
Spices piled high at the market
Entering Zimbabwe
City tower beside the bridge
Palm-lined avenue in Harare
Real work only. Every asset on Dura is a real photograph, video or design made by a person, and it is checked by our review team before it goes live. AI-generated or synthetic imagery is not accepted.
Heritage and history
Dura is built on Zimbabwe's own memory: the stone courts of Great Zimbabwe, the trade and craft of Munhumutapa, the kingdoms of the plateau, and the values that hold families and villages together. Every asset here belongs to that story, and is licensed with the respect it deserves.
11th - 15th century
Dzimba dzeMabwe, the houses of stone. A city of dry-stone walls raised without mortar, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the origin of the country name.
15th - 17th century
The Munhumutapa empire traded gold, ivory and cloth with the Swahili coast, and its stone-walled courts shaped the craft and custom of the plateau.
19th century
The Ndebele kingdom of Mzilikazi and Lobengula settled the south-west, and Shona and Ndebele traditions stood their ground side by side.
1980 to today
Independence brought the flag we still raise, and a creative economy built on the same land, languages and memory.
A person is a person through other people. Dignity, generosity and the community come before the individual.
Neighbours gather to work each other's fields in turn, and the harvest is shared so no household is left behind.
Totems name a clan and carry its praise poetry, its taboos, and the duty to protect the animals and land it honours.
Respect, above all for elders: the greetings, the handshake, and the way a young person speaks before a parent.
The ancestors are named and remembered. To forget them is to lose the ground you stand on.
Mbira dzavadzimu, hosho and drums carry the history forward, and so do ngano folktales and tsumo proverbs told after dark.
Chara chimwe hachitswanyi inda.
One thumb cannot crush a louse. We carry this heritage together, and we pay for it fairly.
Did you know?
Carvers, kings, dancers and coders. A few things worth knowing about the hands and history behind the work on these pages.
In 1957 the new National Gallery in Salisbury opened with Frank McEwen as its first director, and he set up a studio workshop for local carvers. Shona stone sculpture grew out of that room and is now collected worldwide.
The economic engine
Dura is built to upend the exploitative models of global stock platforms. The split on each sale is fixed and transparent.
65%
The creative
Far above the 15-30% global legacy platforms pay local artists.
25%
Platform maintenance
Hosting, AI search costs, DRM security and scaling.
10%
ZTA Heritage Levy
Funds grassroots #ZimBho tourism activations.
For creatives
Dura pays Zimbabwean creatives 65% of every sale, with 10% set aside for the ZTA Heritage Levy. Your running balance lives in your own earnings dashboard, and payouts are arranged by our team.
01Upload your photos
Share Zimbabwe: portraits, markets, wildlife, food, craft, landscapes.
02We review and publish
Every upload is checked by our team, then published in the library.
03Earn on every download
Every sale pays you 65%, tracked in your own earnings dashboard.
Placing your brand on a featured photo puts you in front of buyers, agencies and media across the region, and every sale of that photo still pays its creative 65%. Placements are curated by the Dura team.
