walled ladies' garden and much more. The estate followed in the tradition of 19th century Utopian model villages like Saltaire and Port Sunlight. The estate is 12 500 hectares. The estate had its own schools, hospitals, playing fields, shops, and post office. Workers lived in brick-built cottages and the estate was ruled as a benevolent autocracy. Gore-Brown was locally nicknamed Chipembere (rhinoceros). The estate in Gore-Browne's later life Shiwa Ngandu's remoteness and isolation from white settler society in Northern Rhodesia's southern half and in Southern Rhodesia gave Gore-Browne a perspective on black Africans which led him to believe the country should develop in a more collaborative direction than the settler-ruled and segregationist Southern Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa. He involved himself in politics to promote his ideas. The estate never managed to make consistent and steady profits. The soil was too acidic for most crops, and after trying various other sources of revenue, they found a more stable income in the production of essential oils and citrus blossoms especially when the Second World War closed off supplies of essential oils from the rivieras of France and Bulgaria. However, his projects were heavily subsidized by Dame Ethel Locke King, with whom he was obsessively attached and corresponded from his childhood until her death. This source of revenue ended in 1958 when the citrus trees were attacked by a blight. Gore-Browne died in Kasama, Zambia in 1967, and remains the only white man to have been given a state funeral in the history of Zambia, with a eulogy given by then-President Kenneth Kaunda. Fame and tragedy After Gore-Browne's death, Shiwa Ngandu was managed by one of his daughters, Lorna, and her husband John Harvey. They had four children, who grew up at the estate. They appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation travelogue series Pole to Pole in 1991, when presenter Michael Palin visited the estate. Six months later in 1992, the Harveys were murdered at Shiwa Ngandu by three African National Congress (ANC) members living in exile in Zambia. The ANC disavowed any prior knowledge and condemned the murders, and although some property was stolen, possible motives remain speculative. In the years following the murders, the house fell into disrepair. Present day Shiwa House has been partially restored and has opened five rooms for paying guests under the name 'Shiwa Ngandu Manor House'. An airstrip has been built for charter flights. Touring