An Interview with Basilwizi Trust, Zimbabwe

The Kariba Dam on the Zambesi

Fifty years ago, Tonga communities were forced to give up their traditional homeland during construction of Kariba Dam. Unforgiving terrain combined with the country’s devolving political and economic situation have left the Zimbabwean Tonga facing greater challenges than their Zambian relatives, whose community well-being deteriorated following an inadequate resettlement. Starting in 2000, the Tonga-led Basilwizi Trust in Zimbabwe began helping rewrite the future of its people. International Rivers’ Africa campaigner Terri Hathaway caught up with Boniface Mutale, director of Basilwizi Trust. Born shortly after his family’s resettlement, Mutale is leading one of the strongest efforts to combat the effects of displacement, which continue to batter new generations of Tonga.

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