Mutange Dam

Mutange Dam, across Mutange River, is a manmade earth fill embarkment dam located in Chisina Village, 30 km east of Gokwe and 35 km northwest of Empress Mine, in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe.

Mutange Dam was constructed mainly to augment fossil borehole water supply to Gokwe Centre.

Apart from the villagers affected by the dam construction, who had to be resettled elsewhere by the government at about US$1.9 million,[9] the rest of the community welcomed its long term benefits.

[10] Locally, the power station drives water to Mutange Irrigation Scheme, Chisina Township and the surrounding rural villages.

The Chisina (Gumbero) chieftaincy is traceable as far back to the early 18th century when Chihwechematanda founded it on his arrival from Buhera in the now Mashonaland East Province.

When the then government asked him to identify his boundaries which Chief Njelele had crossed, he claimed, "Ndave nechigaro CHISINA chinhu," meaning, "My throne is left with nothing".

Mutange Dam in Gokwe East, Chisina Village, Zimbabwe