Editing Manicaland Province (section)

==Demographics and diversity==
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|source      = [http://www.geohive.com/cntry/zimbabwe.aspx Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT)]
|1992 | 1,537,676
|2002 | 1,568,930
|2012 | 1,752,698
|2022|2,037,762}}
Manicaland is the second most populated province in Zimbabwe. It has a population of about 1,755,000 which constitutes about 13.5% of the country's total population.

The people of Manicaland speak [[Shona language|Shona]] although the different districts have own languages and dialects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft158004rs&chunk.id=d0e3048&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2944&brand=ucpress&query=manicaland |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=publishing.cdlib.org}}</ref> For example, [[Mutasa District]] use [[Manyika]] as a language. In [[Makoni District]], the MaUngwe people use the chi[[Maungwe|Ungwe]]. In [[Chimanimani|Chimanimani District]], [[Chipinge|Chipinge District]] the Ndau people use chi[[Ndau language|Ndau]] and the Machangana/ Shangaani people use chiChangana/ Shangaan language. In [[Mutare|Mutare District]]  the people of Marange use [[Bocha dialect|chiBocha]] and the Jindwi people of [[Zimunya]] use [[CiJindwi|chiJindwi]].

These languages transcend the modern day boundaries set by the districts, being synonymous with the people in their Chiefdoms, who originally occupied these lands and beyond, prior to the displacement and resettlement caused by colonial occupation and repression in the early part of the 20th century. Boundaries between Kingdoms/ Chiefdoms were redrawn under the [[Land Apportionment Act of 1930]] and the Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=DUGGAN |first=WILLIAM R. |date=1980-04-01 |title=The Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951 and the Rural African Middle Class of Southern Rhodesia |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097207 |journal=African Affairs |volume=79 |issue=315 |pages=227–240 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097207 |issn=0001-9909|url-access=subscription }}</ref>  Colonial authorities used a similar technique to divide up land and authority, which in colonial Rhodesia manifested itself, through a long series of legislative measures (most importantly the Land Apportionment Act of 1930 and the Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951), in the sharp division between Native reserves (later known as the Tribal Trust Lands), and European farming areas, with the Native Purchase Areas forming a kind of middle stage between the two. After the country's independence in 1980, district boundaries were redrawn based on political direction in the newer dispensation.