News and updates from Mwatipedza Village, Bocha, Mutare District, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Published by the office of Ishe David Marange — Village Head since October 2012. For enquiries, call +263 77 223 8890 or email villagehead@mwatipedza.org.
Formation of Mwatipedza Scholarship Fund
This is just a heads up on what has been happening. We are not yet looking for donations to supplement the allowance as there are a few governance structures that we want to put in place first, including :
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MARANGE DYNASTY OF BOCHA
Newcomers to the world of Shona politics could hardly find a better point at which to start than the Marange dynasty of Bocha: it offers a neat little case history of struggle for political power and land, with the enforced peace of colonial rule only just suppressing the older methods of conducting politics in the last century. At a first glance at the map, Bocha appears to be cut off from the surrounding country by natural features: on its northern border lies the Mutanda range, while on the east and west, joining in the south, run the Odzi and Save rivers, both of them major streams that are difficult or impossible to cross at the height of the summer rains.
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