‘Bulawayo has stood tall across the country as a better organised and cleanest city. From garbage collection, road and traffic maintenance (traffic lights) and good driving behaviour,’ “Skies” remains a city to reckon with.’[1] A running thread in generations of residents that have called Bulawayo home has been their deep veneration and steadfast belief in its status as an exceptional habitat. Exemplary epochs of this exceptionalism are traced from the time King Lobengula est