Farm Labor Struggles In Zimbabwe

Author : Blair Rutherford
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253024077

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Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe by Blair Rutherford Pdf

In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were the black occupiers being freed from racist bondage as cheap laborers by the state-supported massive land redistribution, or were they victims of state violence who had been denied access to their homes, social services, and jobs? Blair Rutherford examines the unequal social and power relations shaping the lives, livelihoods, and struggles of some of the farm workers during this momentous period in Zimbabwean history. His analysis is anchored in the time he spent on a horticultural farm just east of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, that was embroiled in the tumult of political violence associated with jambanja, the democratization movement. Rutherford complicates this analysis by showing that there was far more in play than political oppression by a corrupt and authoritarian regime and a movement to rectify racial and colonial land imbalances, as dominant narratives would have it. Instead, he reveals, farm worker livelihoods, access to land, gendered violence, and conflicting promises of rights and sovereignty played a more important role in the political economy of citizenship and labor than had been imagined.

Author : Steve Kibble,Paul Vanlerberghe
Publisher : CIIR
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 1852872403

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Land, Power and Poverty by Steve Kibble,Paul Vanlerberghe Pdf

Author : Dede-Esi Amanor-Wilks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111640442

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Zimbabwe's Farm Workers by Dede-Esi Amanor-Wilks Pdf

Author : Blair Allan Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015061377795

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Working on the Margins by Blair Allan Rutherford Pdf

The dramatic changes in Zimbabwe's economic, political and social landscapes since the 2000 elections - referred to as the 'Zimbabwe crisis' - have raised complex critical questions at national, regional and international levels. This work addresses these points, by focusing on the shifting discourses about, and relationsips between land, state and citizenship. It argues that these changing definitions and dynamics, and their implications, can best be understood in terms of a number of overlapping, complete and incomplete projects of transformations; or as 'unfinished business'

Author : Chris McIvor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : IND:30000050914351

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Zimbabwe by Chris McIvor Pdf

Author : Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030663483

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Fast Track Land Occupations in Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe Pdf

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the decentralized character of the occupations by recognizing significant spatial variation around a number of key themes, including historical memory, modes of mobilization and gender. A case study of the land occupations in Mashonaland Central Province, based on original research, adds empirical weight to the argument. In further identifying and understanding the specificities and complexities of the land occupations, the book also frames them by way of a nuanced comparative-historical analysis of the three zvimurenga. It thus examines the land occupations (referred to, likely controversially, as the ‘third chimurenga’) with reference to the original anti-colonial revolt from the 1890s (the first chimurenga) and the war of liberation in the 1970s (the second chimurenga). Further, the book engages critically with the ruling party’s chimurenga narrative and the hegemonic understanding of the land occupations within Zimbabwean studies. This book is a crucial read for all scholars and students of post-2000 land and politics in Zimbabwe, but also for those more broadly interested in historical-comparative analyses of land struggles in Zimbabwe and beyond.

Author : Prosper B. Matondi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780321509

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Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform by Prosper B. Matondi Pdf

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex. Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe's agriculture and development. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.

Author : Maxim Bolt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107111226

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Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms by Maxim Bolt Pdf

This book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa.

Author : Lloyd Sachikonye,Brian Raftopoulos
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781779223425

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Building from the Rubble by Lloyd Sachikonye,Brian Raftopoulos Pdf

Building from the Rubble is the latest volume to trace the history of Zimbabwes labour movement, following Keep on Knocking (1997) and Striking Back (2001). Even though it focuses on the period between 2000-2017, the analysis reviews the changes in trade unionism throughout the post-colonial era. For much of this period, the unions faced massive challenges, including state violence and repression, funding limitations, splits, factionalism, and problems of organising at factory level. Perhaps the greatest challenge was the massive structural change in the economy. Deindustrialisation and the informalisation of work decimated the potential membership of the unions and redefined the trajectory of the movement. The growing precarity of work and the loss of formal employment placed the future of trade unions in great jeopardy. Notwithstanding these challenges, the importance of the labour movement continued to resonate with workers. The editors conclude that the unions needs to reconnect with their social base at the workplace, and rebuild structures and alliances in the informal economy, the rural sector, and with residents associations and social media movements. This they write is a critical post-Mugabe agenda that should be seized by the labour movement at all levels, from shop-floor to district, regional and national spaces.

Author : Chris Brown,David Moore,Blair Rutherford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228012559

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New Leaders, New Dawns? by Chris Brown,David Moore,Blair Rutherford Pdf

In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both experienced rapid and unexpected political transitions. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, the only leader the country had ever known, was replaced in a “soft coup” by his erstwhile vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Over a twelve-day period in February 2018, South African president Jacob Zuma was prematurely forced from office by his former deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa. The widespread popular rejoicing that accompanied their arrival compounded the shock of these sudden transitions. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received. Contributors consider how the former liberation heroes Mugabe and Zuma could have fallen so low; the underlying reasons for their ouster; what happened to their liberation movements turned ruling parties; and, perhaps most importantly, what the rise to power of Ramaphosa and Mnangagwa foreshadowed. Bringing together fourteen leading international scholars of southern Africa, and adopting a political economy framework, this volume argues that the changes in leadership are welcome, but insufficient. While the time had come for Zuma and Mugabe to go, there is little in the personal histories or early policy actions of Ramaphosa and Mnangagwa that suggests they will be capable of addressing the profound social, economic, and political problems both countries face. New Leaders, New Dawns? reveals that despite what these new leaders may have promised, a “new dawn” has not yet arrived in southern Africa.

Author : Lionel Cliffe,Jocelyn Alexander,Ben Cousins,Rudo Gaidzanwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317981268

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Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe by Lionel Cliffe,Jocelyn Alexander,Ben Cousins,Rudo Gaidzanwa Pdf

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following Independence in 1980. A dramatic further episode in this history was launched at the start of the last decade with the occupation of many farms by groups of African veterans of the liberation struggle and their supporters, which was then institutionalised by legislation to take over most of the large commercial farms for sub-division. Sustained fieldwork over the intervening years, by teams of scholars and experts, and by individual researchers is now generating an array of evidence-based findings of the outcomes: how land was acquired and disposed of; how it has been used; how far new farmers have carved out new livelihoods and viable new communities; the major political and economic problems they and other stakeholders such as former farm-workers, commercial farmers, and the overall rural society now face. This book will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064575

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Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe by Sam Moyo Pdf

This study represents a first systematic effort to document Zimbabwe "s new land uses during the years of economic crisis, the role of the state in promoting them, the differentiation associated with them, not only between black and white farmers, but also among them, and the implications of all these for the political economy of the Zimbabwean land question. The fact that some of the new land uses avoid redistribution of clearly under-utilised large scale commercial farms suggests that the Zimbabwean land question will remain a live political issue for a long time.

Author : Sachikonye, Lloyd,Raftopoulos, Brian
Publisher : Weaver Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781779223418

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Building from the Rubble by Sachikonye, Lloyd,Raftopoulos, Brian Pdf

Building from the Rubble is the latest volume to trace the history of Zimbabwe’s labour movement, following Keep on Knocking (1997) and Striking Back (2001). Even though it focuses on the period between 2000-2017, the analysis reviews the changes in trade unionism throughout the post-colonial era. For much of this period, the unions faced massive challenges, including state violence and repression, funding limitations, splits, factionalism, and problems of organising at factory level. Perhaps the greatest challenge was the massive structural change in the economy. Deindustrialisation and the informalisation of work decimated the potential membership of the unions and redefined the trajectory of the movement. The growing precarity of work and the loss of formal employment placed the future of trade unions in great jeopardy. Notwithstanding these challenges, the importance of the labour movement continued to resonate with workers. The editors conclude that the unions needs to reconnect with their social base at the workplace, and rebuild structures and alliances in the informal economy, the rural sector, and with residents’ associations and social media movements. ‘This’ they write ‘is a critical post-Mugabe agenda that should be seized by the labour movement at all levels, from shop-floor to district, regional and national spaces.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 5375 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781544384733

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Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 by Tom Lansford Pdf

The Political Handbook of the World by Tom Lansford provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information, with more in-depth coverage of current political controversies than any other reference guide. The updated 2020-2021 edition will continue to be the most authoritative source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country′s governmental and political makeup. Compiling in one place more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, this volume is renowned for its extensive coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. The Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies. And this update will aim to include coverage of current events, issues, crises, and controversies from the course of the last two years.

Author : Logan Cochrane,Nathan Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030607890

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The Transnational Land Rush in Africa by Logan Cochrane,Nathan Andrews Pdf

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African ‘land rush’, providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries.