In the 1950s, the white minority regime in Zimbabwe launched an ambitious development scheme for peasant agriculture, known as the Native Land Husbandry Act. It was abandoned in 1962 in the face of massive rural opposition. This paper explores the key provisions of this surprising scheme and its origins in the political economy of the colony and the contradictory interests of the settler community. It then looks at why Africans rejected the measure, arguing the NLHA undermined key peasant strategies for production, environmental management, and survival in the colonial order. Peasants initially tried to evade the impositions of the scheme, but then became defiant as the state tried to coerce them to follow the law. Protests spread throughou...
This paper which focuses on the determinants of land policy will consist of two sections. The first...
The Fast-Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process bo...
In 2000, Zimbabwe’s century old land movement took a swift turn, rupturing into <br/> nationwide occ...
In the 1950s, the white minority regime in Zimbabwe launched an ambitious development scheme for pea...
Using Bikita as a case study, this paper aims at analyzing the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA) of 1...
The colonial state the world over has been characterized as brutal and exploitative in that it denie...
Poverty in rural Zimbabwe was rampant during colonial and post independence times. Poverty creation...
Conflicts over land, a major theme in Zimbabwe's rural history, are widely recognized as 'most serio...
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwa...
The Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe has been a major area of international discussion for almost f...
There is a general consensus that land reform in post settler colonies fits like a glove. Since exte...
This study uses mostly secondary data to investigate the land question in Zimbabwe. The findings sho...
The agrarian question is one of Zimbabwe's enduring colonial legacies. At independence the ensemble ...
In the early twentieth century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupation...
The fast track land reform programme resulted in a fundamental reorganisation of rural relations in ...
This paper which focuses on the determinants of land policy will consist of two sections. The first...
The Fast-Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process bo...
In 2000, Zimbabwe’s century old land movement took a swift turn, rupturing into <br/> nationwide occ...
In the 1950s, the white minority regime in Zimbabwe launched an ambitious development scheme for pea...
Using Bikita as a case study, this paper aims at analyzing the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA) of 1...
The colonial state the world over has been characterized as brutal and exploitative in that it denie...
Poverty in rural Zimbabwe was rampant during colonial and post independence times. Poverty creation...
Conflicts over land, a major theme in Zimbabwe's rural history, are widely recognized as 'most serio...
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwa...
The Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe has been a major area of international discussion for almost f...
There is a general consensus that land reform in post settler colonies fits like a glove. Since exte...
This study uses mostly secondary data to investigate the land question in Zimbabwe. The findings sho...
The agrarian question is one of Zimbabwe's enduring colonial legacies. At independence the ensemble ...
In the early twentieth century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupation...
The fast track land reform programme resulted in a fundamental reorganisation of rural relations in ...
This paper which focuses on the determinants of land policy will consist of two sections. The first...
The Fast-Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process bo...
In 2000, Zimbabwe’s century old land movement took a swift turn, rupturing into <br/> nationwide occ...