The colonial education inherited by Zimbabwe was regarded as racist, individualistic, competitive, Eurocentric, and capitalist-oriented and had to be reconstructed to be socialist in nature by the ...
This article explores the development of small grains (sorghum, millet, and rapoko) production and marketing in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) over the colonial era from 1890 to the 1970s. Using primary archival and secondary sources, it examines how different factors, including the advent of white settler capitalist agriculture and shifting …
This article outlines the historical and contemporary landscape of tobacco production and marketing in Zimbabwe. It highlights patterns of boom and bust dependent on global demand, trading ...
Give An Account For The Development Of Capitalist Mining In Colonial Zimbabwe By The Early S. Joseph ankrah 24th february 19663rd april 1969 the national liberation council nlc which booted out the nkrumah government in 1966 implemented a two 2 year development plan the nlcs plan through the tdc and the shc …chapter 2 The Open …
Most anthropological and historical information that we have about women in pre-colonial and colonial Zimbabwe has been produced by men, often of a different culture, and while their major biases are frequently obvious, the subtleties of different cultural and gender perspecti ves are, by definition, less easy to identify.
Botswana and Zimbabwe typify Africa's diverse capital ... Some of Africa's exchanges were established in early colonial times. South Africa led the way on the heels of the diamond and gold rush, followed by Zimbabwe, Egypt, and Namibia (a German colony at the time) – …
'Our stomachs are still hungry': The colonial state, African Nutrition and small grains in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), c.1950 to 1970s
The development of the coffee sector in colonial Zimbabwe is located within the broader milieu of the development of settler-agriculture in the country. Yet the development of settler agrarian capitalism in Southern Rhodesia in its complete logic is a multifarious subject with numerous branches that could be explored independently.
USAID/Zimbabwe Country Development Cooperation Strategy 2016 -2021 (pdf - 1 ) Zimbabwe has an estimated population of 14.2 million people, of whom about 10 million live in rural areas. Life for the average Zimbabwean is increasingly difficult, with 63 percent of all s living in poverty and 16 percent in extreme poverty.
In Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe), the racial uplift notion became an essential part of the message of those advocating African business formation. This message gained enormous currency in the Depression years ofthe 1930s when would-be entrepreneurs, bereft offunds and seeking to tap potential sources of capital among a wider segment of …
Between colonial intervention and a weak regulatory framework, mining in Zimbabwe has struggled to live up to its potential. With the government cracking down on undeveloped licenses, and aiming to force companies to "use it or lose it", we consider the history of mining in Zimbabwe, and who the winners and losers of the new policy could be.
This article explores white-settler notions of hygiene and debates over the subaltern body, by using dairy farming in colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) in the 1920s and 1930s as a lens through which to look into the bio-politics of farming and its effects on the political economy of race and accumulation. Dairy farming is a highly …
Land and agrarian policy in colonial Zimbabwe: Re-ordering of African society and development in ati, 1950-1966
This article reviews how colonial rule and African actions during the colonial period affected the resources and institutional settings for subsequent economic development south of the Sahara. The issue is seen from the perspective of the dynamics of development in what was in 1900 an overwhelmingly land-abundant region …
Out of this moral and economic "dilemma" of development grew the multiheaded Hydra of forced labor in Africa: forced labor for private interests, government forced labor, and coercion in the interests of community. In this chapter we first, broadly, examine the general archetypes of forced labor in colonial Africa and their connection to ...
In the post-independence era, mining prospects in Zimbabwe increased as compared to the colonial period. By 1996, Zimbabwe was one of the leading producer of gold and other minerals such as asbestos, lithium minerals, and …
In this spirit, the Zimbabwe case discussed below will adopt a multi-pronged approach to its analysis of the relationship between women, economic development, and patriarchy in post-independence Zimbabwe.
The formative years of settler occupation in colonial Zimbabwe were characterised by conflict at various levels of the economic and governmental structures. While historians have explored some of ...
Scholars have emphasised the role of the colonial state in explaining the development of white settler agriculture in general and the tobacco industry in particular in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Indeed, through a plethora of laws, ordinances and extra-judicial interventions, the colonial state provided both direct and indirect support, …
Despite foregrounding agency, this scholarship stressed the ubiquitous structural constraints under which peasants operated at various levels and how these constraints impinged on their limited choices. 3 …
This paper reviews the literature on large-scale mining projects' relationships to Indigenous peoples in post/colonial contexts, focusing on Australia, Canada, Finland, Greenland, New Caledonia, Norway, and Sweden, in the aim of generating insights from comparative perspectives.
Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in Zimbabwe. The process of economic development in the British settler colony of Southern Rhodesia (the modern nation of Zimbabwe) was dominated by the needs of European capitalists who had invested in agriculture and mining.'
The interventionist strategies targeted mainly the agricultural, mining, financial, and manufacturing sectors and to some extent construction and tourism. Zimbabwe inherited a fairly performing economy at independence, and as such, the main task of the government was to maintain and improve the economy's performance.
The institutional framework for mining in Zimbabwe starts from the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development to its parastatals such as the Zimbabwean Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe.
The contribution of artisanal and small-scale gold mining to Zimbabwe's economic growth and development Zimbabwe Accountability and Artisanal Mining Programme
The colonial wage economy created ambiguities of dependence for Africans forcing many into a migrant and capitalist world laden with dilemmas, tightropes, and frustrations that fueled social ...
There is a consensus in past and present scholarly work that the introduction of settler agriculture in colonial Africa facilitated a process of semi-proletarization and the development of agrarian capitalist relations of
Zimbabwe as an independent state continue to use, thereby perpetuate colonial systems especially in education where the government controls the formulation of policies. The study seeks to examine and understand the extent of the influence of colonial legacies in education from the headmasters' viewpoints.
