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The Save River is one of Southern Africa’s longest rivers stretching hundreds of kilometres from Zimbabwe through Mozambique into the Indian Ocean.
Historically, it was a transport route for gold and trade goods, between the coast and the land occupied by the civilisation of Great Zimbabwe in the 13th and 14th centuries AD.
Save River for long has been the source of life in the drier parts of Manicaland.
It also supports massive irrigation projects in the Lowveld that include Mkwasine and Chisumbanje Estates among others.
Over the years siltation has turned the once mighty river into a pale shadow of its former self.
It is now a bed of sand with pools of water dotted along its course.
Below that mass of sand, the river is still flowing and locals dig into the sand to suck water.
As one woman Gogo Muyambo of Chisumbanje said: “In the past, the river flowed without problems, but in recent years siltation has taken place but we still get our water of it.”
Online Reporter