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| Title: | A Tale of Two Cities: The Evolution of the City of Bulawayo and Makokoba Township under Conditions of Water Scarcity, 1894-1953 |
| Author: | Musemwa, Muchaparara |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
| Issue: | 55 |
| Pages: | 186-209 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | segregation water supply townships towns 1900-1949 History and Exploration Urbanization and Migration Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment colonialism |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470609464937 |
| Abstract: | Focusing on the dual nature of the colonial city - coexistence between the 'European' town and the African township - this paper examines how the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) mobilized and distributed water to the colonial city and to the township of Makokoba under conditions of scarcity from the time both were founded in 1894 until 1953, the year in which the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was established. The paper advances two central arguments. First, it suggests that the colonial municipality's water policies and practices were designed to create a luxurious, green, and prosperous city, while the same policies did not apply to the segregated Makokoba township. Second, it contends that water scarcity, as it affected the residents of Makokoba, was a product of the intersection between ecological and climatic factors on the one hand and power relationships on the other. The paper demonstrates that political and economic power concentrated in the hands of the white settler State officials shaped the distribution of water supplies to Makokoba. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
