The origins of farming is the defining event of human history - the one turning point that has resulted in modern humans having a quite different type of lifestyle and cognition to all other animals and past types of humans. With the economic basis provided by farming, human individuals and societies have developed types of material culture that greatly augment powers of memory and computation, extending the human mental capacity far beyond that which the brain alone can provide. Archaeologists have long debated and discussed why people began living in settled communities and became dependent on cultivated plants and animals, which soon evolved into domesticated forms.

Through out their history the Shona people are best known for their devotion to farming. Dura is a Shona word meaning a secure building for storing grain or farm products. In choosing its name Dura Capital pays tribute to the Shona people for their pioneering endevours in agriculture and their early concepts of secure investments. As the Shona people say - dura haripazwe!, literally translates to "a barn is not to be destroyed". Our dura is there for your medium to long term investments.