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Title:'Every Man Must Resettle Where He Wants': The Politics of Settlement in the Context of Community Wildlife Management Programme in Binga, Zimbabwe
Author:Dzingirai, V.ISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Zambezia
Volume:23
Issue:1
Pages:19-30
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., maps
Geographic terms:Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Subjects:resettlement
wildlife protection
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Wildlife
Wildlife management
CAMPFIRE (Program)
Binga District (Zimbabwe)
External link:https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_195
Abstract:In Zimbabwe, perhaps as many as a million rural people have relocated from the overcrowded communal areas of southern and eastern Zimbabwe into the Zambezi Valley, Gokwe and Binga, which previously were sparsely populated, inhabited by a variety of small ethnic groups, mostly the Shangwe and Tonga people, who have failed to secure political representation since independence. Prominent countryside politicians claiming Ndebele ancestry have encouraged and facilitated settlement into these marginal areas of Ndebele cattle owners and cash crop farmers from the neighbouring Lupane area. The huge influx of people into the valley has tended to affect the development of Campfire (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources), a community-based natural resource management project, first introduced to the district in 1989. The Campfire programme, which by 1992-1993 was starting to generate considerable incomes for the indigenous Tonga from sustainable and other tourism, entails setting aside some land for safari hunting. Campfire's need for land thus runs counter to the needs of the politicians, for whom land is a strategic resource to be used to mobilize the support of the immigrants whom they have encouraged to settle in the valley. Consequently, politicians have opposed Campfire, or at least tried to control it. Bibliogr., notes, sum.
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