Belvedere Technical teachers’ college was founded in 1982 as one of the newest Teacher training colleges.  It is situated in the beautiful suburbs of Belvedere, west of Harare on twenty-one hectares of sprawling land overlooking the sacred Heroes Acres.

Belvedere Technical Teachers’ College was built at a cost of $15 million dollars and it fits perfectly into the reorganized programme of teacher education in Zimbabwe.  It was at the ZIMCORD conference that the then Minister of Education, Comrade Dzingai Mutumbuka was offered money about $6 million to build new secondary schools in rural areas by the American Representative.  Instead of accepting the money for that purpose he asked that the money be donated to build a college for training teachers in the much neglected area of technical subjects.  The Americans approved and thus this college, which was to cost more than double its original estimated amount, was born.