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Zimbabwe: A Gold Mining Boom Amid Rapid Agrarian Change

The widening of the gold mining frontier is underpinned by exploitative labour relations sponsored by global mining capital under a new wave of primitive …

Law, expertise, and settler conflicts over land in early colonial …

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 …

Post-independence Reforms and Policies in Zimbabwe

The aim of all these was to include every Zimbabwean in the development agenda and redress the past ills of the colonial regime. ... promoting the free movement of capital, the opening of the national markets to international competition, privatization of public services and companies, deregulations of labor relations, and improving ...

(PDF) Post-colonial theory in Zimbabwe's education system: Headmasters

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).

MINING, MEN AND THE CAMERA IN COLONIAL …

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);

Production Systems in Pre-colonial Africa

There were setbacks, however, for inclusive development in Africa due to unfavorable economic conditions emanating from colonial structures and systems which did not favor the African way of ...

How imperialism undermined Zimbabwe

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 ...

History of pre-colonial mining in Zimbabwe

A perusal of Zimbabwe's history in particular shows that mining was a thriving industry before the whites set foot in the country with 'sophisticated' value addition facilities in place to promote trade and development. The mining and value addition projects ensured that Zimbabwe was a developed economy that had the potential to …

Farm Labour, Agrarian Capital and the State in Colonial …

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 MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: LABOUR, CAPITAL …

THE MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: LABOUR, CAPITAL AND THE STATE. LABOUR, CAPITAL AND THE STATE. By. John BRADBURY & Eric WORBY* …

An analysis of the impact of colonial education on 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 ...

The Political Economy of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining …

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 …

(PDF) Pre-colonial mining and metalworking in southern …

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)

Earth Day: Colonialism's role in the overexploitation of natural resources

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.

Law, expertise, and settler conflicts over land in early colonial

Conflicts among settlers and colonial officials not only reveal the contradictions of colonial rule and capitalist development but also contributed to the …

South Africa

South Africa - Colonial Economy, Resources, Trade: From 1770 to 1870 the region became more fully integrated into the world capitalist economy. Trekboers, who were weakly controlled by the Dutch East India Company, advanced across the semidesert Karoo of the central Cape and collided with African agricultural peoples along a line …

Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in …

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 …

Mining and Minerals Revenue Distribution in …

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 ...

"Am I A Man?": Gender and the Pass Laws in Urban Colonial Zimbabwe

Gender and the Pass Laws in Urban Colonial Zimbabwe, 1930-80* - Volume 40 Issue 1 ... " Unequal Development: Capitalism and the Katanga Economy, 1919-40," in Palmer, Robin and Parsons, Neil ... Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Communities, 1926-1964," in Robertson, Claire and Berger, Iris ...

Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa

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 …

(PDF) Land and agrarian policy in colonial Zimbabwe: Re …

Land and agrarian policy in colonial Zimbabwe: Re-ordering of African society and development in ati, 1950-1966

IN THE COLONIAL ECONOMY OF ZIMBABWE,

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 …

(PDF) Pre-Colonial South-East Africa: Sources and …

In 1977, Beach published a chapter titled 'The Shona Economy: Branches of Production', easily the most comprehensive account of the pre-colonial economy of Zimbabwe and central Mozambique, in which the argument that African polities were 'basically agricultural communities, in that the most important activity of the greatest number of ...

shibang/sbm capitalist mining in zimbabwe.md at master

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Intracontinental Exchanges Before Globalization: The …

Based on the review of literature available on trade, this paper argues that regional and interregional trade involving pre-colonial Zimbabwe were forms of globalization which predate ...

Law, expertise, and settler conflicts over land in early colonial

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 …

Post-colonial theory in Zimbabwe's education system

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 government (Chung ...

THE MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

These include Zimbabwe's mining legislation, environmental impacts of the mining industry at global level, in the SADC region and in Zimbabwe. Problems which confront the industry as well as their possible solutions in Zimbabwe are also examined. ... From a sustainable development (SD) point of view, mining poses a serious danger which …