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The Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Refugees in the Umtali Area
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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During the armed struggle for the nation’s independence, the Eastern border provinces of Rhodesia became the center of intense military activity. Accordingly, it was from this region that entire villages were evacuated, as families crossed into Mozambique to escape enclosure by the Smith regime into “protected villages.” The Tangwena people of the area, long pursued by the white power structure in an attempt to disperse them, moved en masse across the border. It was also from this region that vast numbers of school students and other frustrated youth left to answer the call to swell the ranks of the liberation forces. It was natural then that the resettlement of returning refugees from Mozambique camps between January and September 1980 was concentrated in the general Umtali-Fort Victoria area.
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1. See studies by Dr. Anne Seidman, Department of Economics, University of Zimbabwe.
2. Nicholas Morris, head of UNHCR’s office in Salisbury, reported that refugees being processed from Zambia were being held and physically tortured by police, which had a marked effect on the inflow of refugees from that country until the matter was investigated by Lord Soames.
3. This reception center was late to open due to the fact that an assembly point set up for guerrillas in the vicinity was monopolizing the scant public services available to the area.
4. It is uncommon in Shona society to find a home–whether it be in the rural area or on a crowded city block–which does not have a vegetable garden, and those with means to grow their own basic food supplies who choose not to do so are often scorned by their neighbors.