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https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1696
2024-03-29T05:21:57ZState-commercial farmers’ relations in post-colonial Zimbabwe: from willing-seller-willing-buyer dispensation to the new dispensation (1980-2018)
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/4478
Title: State-commercial farmers’ relations in post-colonial Zimbabwe: from willing-seller-willing-buyer dispensation to the new dispensation (1980-2018)
Authors: Chibanda, Tawanda W.
Abstract: The aim of this study was to interrogate state-farmer relations in independent Zimbabwe. It specifically unpacks how farmer unions negotiated and bargained with the post-colonial government for better access to market, finance, extension services and favourable land ownership regimes. It is a qualitative study which draws data from document analysis and oral interviews. The specific focus of this study is to analyse relations between the state and commercial farmers from the willing-seller-willing-buyer dispensation to the new dispensation. The study mainly focuses on commercial farmers’ lobbying and advocacy and the various strategies they developed in engaging the government to enhance commercial farming endeavours in Zimbabwe. By focusing on the relations between the state and commercial farmers organisations the study seeks to shift the angle of analysis from the conventional narratives on agriculture in Zimbabwe that largely focus on land distribution politics. The central argument presented is that state-commercial farmers’ relations witnessed revisions and changes as a result of the emotive politics of land distribution. In terms of the aims, the study interrogates how the Commercial Farmers Union interacted with the state, it also examines the fragmentation of the Commercial Farmers Union leading to the birth of splinter unions such as Justice for Agriculture. The study analyses how reactionary entities such as JAG worked with the state. The study also examines the relationship between the state and black commercial farmers unions such as the Indigenous Commercial Farmers Union and the Zimbabwe Farmers Union. The study unpacks how the state has supported black farmers.The study deploys the theory of corporatism in explaining the relationship between the state and white farmers operating under the Commercial Farmers Union ambit. De-coloniality is used in analysing the relationship between the state and black farmer organisations such as Zimbabwe Farmers Union and Indigenous Commercial Farmers Union. In terms of contribution to knowledge, the study adds black farmer unions to the matrix of state-farmer relations given that previous works largely focused on analysing relations between the state and the white dominated CFU. The study also interrogates the current dispensation of white farmer compensation and analyses how it impacts on state-farmer relations. Finally, the thesis makes a strong case that the unresolved land question is central in understanding state-commercial farmers’ relations in post-colonial Zimbabwe.2020-01-01T00:00:00ZChibanda, Tawanda W.The search for peace, reconciliation and unity in Zimbabwe: from the 1978 internal settlement to the 2008 global political agreement
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1697
Title: The search for peace, reconciliation and unity in Zimbabwe: from the 1978 internal settlement to the 2008 global political agreement
Authors: Munemo, Douglas
Abstract: This study is a critical examination of the complex search for peace, reconciliation and unity in Zimbabwe between the years 1978 and 2008, with a view to identify factors that have been blocking sustainable peace, national unity, reconciliation and development. It is a qualitative study which draws data from document analysis and oral interviews. The specific focus of the study is an analysis of the four peace agreements signed in this period namely; the 1978 Internal Settlement, the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, the 1987 Unity Accord and the 2008 Global Political Agreement. Its central thesis is that coloniality in its multifaceted invisible forms is largely responsible for conflicts that have engulfed Zimbabwe and for compromising the chances of success of the four peace agreements. Coloniality has produced a ‘postcolonial’ leadership that has continued to practice politics in a violent, repressive, corrupt and unaccountable manner because of interpellation by the very immanent logic of colonialism that reproduces such inimical practices as racism, tribalism, regionalism and patriarchy. Theoretically, the study deploys de-colonial epistemic perspective in its endeavour to unmask and explain challenges to peace, unity, reconciliation and development in Zimbabwe. Finally, the thesis makes a strong case for pursuit of decoloniality as the panacea to conflicts and as an approach to conflict resolution and peace building that privileges decolonization and deimperialization so that Zimbabwe’s development goals could be achieved.
Description: Thesis2016-04-01T00:00:00ZMunemo, Douglas