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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. |
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. |