Guebuza Visits Resettlement Site in Massingir
MASSINGIR- On Monday, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza visited a site where houses are being built to resettle people who had previously been living within the boundaries of what is now the Greater Limpopo National Park (PNL), in the southern province of Gaza.
Guebuza visited Chinhangane, on the outskirts of Massingir town, where 20 of the 148 families transferred from the park are being rehoused. The other 128 will live in the locality of Banga.
The resettlement project is budgeted at 2.2 million euros (about 2.9 million US dollars).
The main attraction of the resettlement is that the National Park is guaranteeing better housing for all those who move. At the very least, each family receives two brick structures- the main house and an adjacent latrine. Barns and hen coops are also provided.
Thus families living in homes built of flimsy materials valued at 25,000 meticais (1,000 dollars) will receive a brick house valued at 125,000 meticais.
In cases where the family was living in a rather better, but still traditional, two room house, valued at around 40,000 meticais, their new home will be larger, budgeted at 162,000 meticais.
Those whose original homes were already built of brick will receive a house of the same size, but using improved materials and technologies.
The project also compensates the families concerned by providing them with new fields and fruit trees.
The establishment of the PNL affects about 28,000 people living along the Limpopo and Elephants rivers, and particularly along the Shingwedzi river (about 6,000 people), which is in the heart of the park.
The PNL is part of the Greater Limpopo Cross-border Park, which also includes the Kruger National Park in South Africa, and the Gonorhezou park in Zimbabwe.
Tourism between these three connected parks began in earnest in 2006, when the Giriyondo border gate, on the Mozambique/South Africa border was inaugurated by Guebuza, and by his South African and Zimbabwean counterparts, Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe.
The first quarter of this year saw about 4,500 tourists pass through the Giriyondo gate.
Guebuza visited Chinhangane, on the outskirts of Massingir town, where 20 of the 148 families transferred from the park are being rehoused. The other 128 will live in the locality of Banga.
The resettlement project is budgeted at 2.2 million euros (about 2.9 million US dollars).
The main attraction of the resettlement is that the National Park is guaranteeing better housing for all those who move. At the very least, each family receives two brick structures- the main house and an adjacent latrine. Barns and hen coops are also provided.
Thus families living in homes built of flimsy materials valued at 25,000 meticais (1,000 dollars) will receive a brick house valued at 125,000 meticais.
In cases where the family was living in a rather better, but still traditional, two room house, valued at around 40,000 meticais, their new home will be larger, budgeted at 162,000 meticais.
Those whose original homes were already built of brick will receive a house of the same size, but using improved materials and technologies.
The project also compensates the families concerned by providing them with new fields and fruit trees.
The establishment of the PNL affects about 28,000 people living along the Limpopo and Elephants rivers, and particularly along the Shingwedzi river (about 6,000 people), which is in the heart of the park.
The PNL is part of the Greater Limpopo Cross-border Park, which also includes the Kruger National Park in South Africa, and the Gonorhezou park in Zimbabwe.
Tourism between these three connected parks began in earnest in 2006, when the Giriyondo border gate, on the Mozambique/South Africa border was inaugurated by Guebuza, and by his South African and Zimbabwean counterparts, Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe.
The first quarter of this year saw about 4,500 tourists pass through the Giriyondo gate.
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