Much of the devastation of our globe's natural resources traces its origins to early colonialism. These relationships continue to define the extraction of resources that severely impact ecosystems.
12 Tinashe Nyamunda and Patience Mukwambo, 'The State and the Bloody Diamond Rush in Chiadzwa: Unpacking the Contesting Interests in the Development of Illicit Mining and Trading, 2006–2009', Journal of Southern African Studies, 38, 1 (2012), pp. 145–66; Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife, 'Zimbabwe's Clogged Political Drain and …
Post-colonial education in Zimbabwe has shown a continuity of colonial education in terms of the curriculum despite the zeal shown by the new governments to change (Jansen, 1991). The new government of Zimbabwe often aligned decisions on education to the former colonial government's directions (Shizha, 2013).
The capitalist economy of colonial Zimbabwe whose objective is the production of maximum surplus value to be appropriated by the international and settler bourgeoisie is a product of British colonial imperialism which was an effort by Britain in the 19th century to resolve her socio-economic crisis caused by the sharpening of contradictions between …
Conflicts among settlers and colonial officials not only reveal the contradictions of colonial rule and capitalist development but also contributed to the …
And yet, while Manjapra describes the development of capitalism as a quantitative process – i.e. more mercantilism – he does not consider it as qualitative transformation, leaving the important question of what makes racial capitalism specifically capitalist undeveloped. In a footnote distancing himself from Marxist 'transition debates ...
Colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), c.1895 ... against the wishes of mining capital. 10. ... ' The Development of Settler Capitalist Agriculture ...
Copper Empire Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930-64 Larry Butler Hardcover 9780230555266 £93.00 / $150.00 Copper Empire is a study of the evolving relationship between the …
The new designed curriculum in education carries colonial 14 | P a g e epistemology and this is causing cultural erosion and identity crisis among school learners today. 1.2 Aim The research seeks to analyse colonial education and its impact on the primary and secondary education curriculum in the context of today in Zimbabwe. 1.3 Objectives To ...
Conflicts among settlers and colonial officials not only reveal the contradictions of colonial rule and capitalist development but also contributed to the making of the land question in Zimbabwe. Settlers' disaffection with the BSAC's land policies, among other factors, led many of them to question its claims to ownership of …
DEVELOPMENT IN COLONIAL ZAMBIA: THE CASE OF THE USHI-KABENDE, 1947-1953* By Kusum Datta ... Africa and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Thus, for example, the Northern ... mining capital in Northern Rhodesia an added strength in its dealings with the state. But mining capital often clashed with local farming capital over …
Nigeria is endowed with vast but largely untapped solid mineral resources including tin ores (cassiterite and stannite). Tin, which is one of the oldest metals known to man, is invaluable in a wide variety of uses due to its intrinsic properties such as great malleability and ductility, low melting point, softness, corrosion resistance, non-toxicity, anti-friction qualities, and …
Development. This is a pluralistic term that has been accorded different meanings by different authors (such as Rodney Citation 1976; Sen Citation 1999; Fukuda-Parr Citation 2003; Thomas Citation 2004) based on their belief or knowledge of the term.However, there has been a common theme in the definition of 'development' …
Land and agrarian policy in colonial Zimbabwe: Re-ordering of African society and development in ati, 1950-1966
For more on the cattle industry and the Great Depression, see N. Samasuwo, '"There Is Something About Cattle": Towards an Economic History of the Beef Industry in Colonial Zimbabwe with Special Reference to the Role of the State' (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000); W. Mwatwara, 'A History of State Veterinary Services and ...
The widening of the gold mining frontier is underpinned by exploitative labour relations sponsored by global mining capital under a new wave of primitive …
In a paper related to this study, it has been argued that mining capital in early colonial Zimbabwe benefited considerably in its policies from cheap African …
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.
relatively unprofitable ventures in mining and agriculture; there was little or no industry ... Law in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1939," Journal of Southern African Studies 16, no. 4 (1990): 622-48, "Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in Zimbabwe," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16, no. 4 (1991): 732-56.
See LPhimister and C.van Onselen, Studies in the History of African Mine Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe (Gwelo, 1978); LPhimister, Wangi Kolia. Coal, Capital and Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe 1894-1954 (Harare and Johannesburg, 1994);
Abstract:Historians and economists studying the third world regard mining as one of the major sectors in which the exploitation of resources by European enterprise took place, both with regard to labor use and the alienation of large areas of valuable land for what are now regarded as extremely small sums of money. Not only were these …
This article explores the interaction of settler farmers, miners, and the state in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1895 to 1923. The governing authority, the …
an unlikely consensus with colonial administrators in believing that European colonization would have very positive e ects on African economic development. By 1926 a British academic was writing of an Economic Revolution in British West Africa" unleashed by the colonial powers on backward Africa (McPhee, 1926).
Roberto Bonfatti has a part-time appointment as an Assistant Professor with the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, his main position being at the University of Padua (Italy).He …
THE MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: LABOUR, CAPITAL AND THE STATE. LABOUR, CAPITAL AND THE STATE. By. John BRADBURY & Eric WORBY* …
other settler colonies in the region, the colonial state in Zambia promoted the interests of agrarian capital at the expense of the African peasant-worker. Although the labour problems of mining capital had eased with labour stabilisation by the mid-1940s, those of agrarian capital became more acute in the decade 1942-52, and
The Berlin Conference in 1884-85 — the "Scramble for Africa" conference — is where the European capitalist countries met to carve up virtually the entire African continent in order to expand their markets for profits by super-exploiting African labor and plundering its superrich mineral resources. ... Rhodes established the DeBeers ...
of some important gold mines in the country. Throughout the colonial era (1890-1980) Zimbabwe was well-known for her rich minerals like gold, coal, copper, asbestos, iron, chrome and many others. During this period the mining industry benefited a small section of the population-the White minority. From 1980 to 1985 mining remained regulated by ...
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 …
Pre-colonial mining and metalworking in southern Africa: An overview with specific reference to Zimbabwe January 2013 In book: Zimbabwean Archaeology in the Post-Independence (pp.143-158)
As European powers began to assert hegemony in much of Africa during the early twentieth century, forced labor became a common and cheap method of organizing the labor of colonial subjects.The impoverished colonial states needed cheap African labor for infrastructure development while, in settler colonies, European immigrants and …