Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe

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Main Author: Jephias Matunhu
Other Authors: Tugwi Mukosi Multidisciplinary Research Institute, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
Format: research article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2023
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Online Access:https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5513
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spelling ir-11408-55132023-04-03T07:08:11Z Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe Jephias Matunhu Tugwi Mukosi Multidisciplinary Research Institute, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Relocation Development Tugwi Mukosi dam Project remaining communities Abstract The inquiry focused on Tugwi Mukosi dam project displacements and relocations. The project was meant to support sugar cane projects in Chiredzi and Triangle. Unlike several other studies on the project, the current one focused on lived experiences of communities which remained as part of them was resettled at Chingwizi in Mwenezi district. The study interviewed community leaders, women, youths, government officials and business taking advantage of Tugwi Mukosi development meetings which were being held at the dam site. The studyestablished that planning and construction of the Tugwi Mukosi dam project was not consultative enough resulting in avoidable social and economic wounds in the affected area. Some of the losses to the remaining communities is alienation of the people from their inheritance such shrines, freedom of the mighty Tugwi and Mukosi rivers, alienation fromthe fishes in the rivers and from indigenous fruit trees which grew along the rivers. They also experience social dislocation from relatives who were moved to Chingwizi. Adequate compensation of the affected communities was recommended to enable the remaining communities to put a closure to the pain associated with the relocation. 25 1 57 61 2023-04-03T07:08:11Z 2023-04-03T07:08:11Z 2021-06-30 research article https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5513 10.21608/jesj.2021.229005 en Journal of Environmental Studies 1001-0742 open Springer
spellingShingle Relocation
Development
Tugwi Mukosi dam
Project remaining communities
Jephias Matunhu
Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe
title Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe
title_full Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe
title_full_unstemmed Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe
title_short Tugwi Mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in Zimbabwe
title_sort tugwi mukosi dam construction: consequences to affected local communities in zimbabwe
topic Relocation
Development
Tugwi Mukosi dam
Project remaining communities
url https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5513
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