Racism in Colonial Zimbabwe | SpringerLink
Conclusion. Colonial Zimbabwe was born out of a racist ethos espoused by its patron, Cecil Rhodes, and rooted in the late nineteenth century scientific racism, social Darwinism, and the white-man's-burden philosophy which extolled the virtues of whiteness and Western civilization and denigrated everything African.
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Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in …
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 who had invested in agriculture and mining.' In recent years a functionalist bias has pervaded scholarly accounts of this process. A number of writers
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Colonial Mining: A Global Historical Context | SpringerLink
One of the primary elements in colonial enterprise and a factor in the movement of colonial frontiers in Australia (and elsewhere including South Africa, Canada and the USA) was mining. In nineteenth century Australia, this was dramatically realised through a gold rush epoch. A global phenomenon, gold rushes for Australia were a …
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development of capitalist mining in zimbabwe
the development of capitalist mining in colonial zimbabwe by the early 1920s, and mined, paralleling the development of settler agriculture, The economic, account for the development of capitalist mining in colonial zimbabwe by the early, of mining and manufacturing capital, and the proposals fell on deaf ears Indeed ....
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Farmers, Hunters, and Gold-Washers: A Reevaluation of …
8When discussing the colonial period, Zimbabwe will be referred to by its colonial name, "Southern Rhodesia." Unless otherwise indicated, all colonial documents cited in the footnotes are housed at the National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ) in Harare, Zimbabwe. Some references are made to documents
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Colonial Economy and Society to 1953 (Chapter 4)
Significant economic advances were registered in mining, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing, while Africans were increasingly incorporated into the …
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Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and …
Using this framework, we examine African tobacco producers in Southern Rhodesia chronologically across three distinct periods: a precolonial to early colonial period of independent production and boom (the early 1900s through the late 1930s); an era of state curtailment of peasant modes of production and decline of African participation in …
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THE MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: LABOUR, …
THE MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: LABOUR, CAPITAL AND THE STATE By John BRADBURY & Eric WORBY* Introduction In April 1980, the new nation of Zimbabwe …
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(PDF) Farmer–Miner Contestations and the …
Contestations and the British South Africa Company in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1895–1923, Journal of Southern African Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2018.1500747 To link to this article: https://doi ...
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the development of capitalist mining in colonial zimbabwe by the early
Dilemmas in Conservationism in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1930,- account the development of capitalist mining in colonial zimbabwe by the early 1920s,26 Jun 2009, The two major pillars of the colonial economy, mining and agriculture, directly caused a fundamental, A series of land commissions authored by whites in 1915, 1920, 1925 …
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Extraction and beyond: people's economic …
interactions, negotiations and conflicts between mining capital, colonial powers, colonised polities, migrant and local labour, and local communities. While capital was …
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Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe's …
Drawing on a range of source material that is in public domain, chiefly newspapers and Parliamentary Debates, this article examines the efforts at renaming government schools in early 2000s in Zimbabwe, the debates surrounding the renaming and the results thereof.The renaming of schools by the Zimbabwe African National Union …
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Colonial Economy and Society to 1953 (Chapter 4)
Introduction. From the collapse of the first concerted African armed resistance to British colonialism in 1896–7 until the creation of the political and economic bloc known as the Central African Federation or the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland in 1953, Southern Rhodesia went through tremendous economic and political changes that ...
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Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa
development of the mining sector, coupled with the growth of cocoa plantations after 1890, created labor shortages. Africans had little interest in working in mines that offered a startling death rate of 64 per 1,000 during the early 1920s. 10 To address the labor shortage, the state resorted to coercion. Gangs of men were rounded up and forced
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Failed neo-Britain: Demography and the Labour …
Arrighi argues that in the case of colonial Zimbabwe, coercion and economic pressure were employed to ensure that Africans joined the wage-labour system until the 1920s, when the peasant sector ...
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Agrarian Capitalism and the Development of the …
coffee industry in colonial Zimbabwe1 from c.1900-1980. It traces the transformation of the sector from the fringes in the early 1900s to a fully-fledged commercial agricultural …
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Zimbabwean Economic and Social Historiography …
sector to a high productivity 'capitalist' or 'money' economy. Barber and , argued Arrighi, conceived 'of the underdevelopment of the African peoples as an original state which the development of a capitalist sector gradually eliminates'. They saw the development of capitalism as 'an ultimately beneficial process',
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Forced Labor and Colonial Development in …
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 ...
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A History of Gold Mining in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania
Gold is mined in 34 SSA countries (African Development Bank Group, 2012).The global average production of gold over the period 2007–2012 was 2400 tonnes per annum, of which 20 per cent was mined in Africa (African Development Bank Group, 2012).The continent's largest producer is South Africa, which contributes 10 per cent of …
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Rural electrification in the British Empire
Electrification started in the 1880s and 1890s with small-scale generators and plants supplying individual plantations, industries and residencies with power, and some municipalities with public lighting. Kimberly, the diamond mining centre of the British Cape Colony, was the first African city with electric street lights in 1882.
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account for the development of mining in colonial zimbabweby the early
Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe Social History Portalan abstract on the contribution of the mining industry to. Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe Review Jones on Johnson the development of an early colonial economy and labor regime and the rise of postwar political and labor activism Far from being narrowly focused his study weaves together a …
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Subalternating Currents: Electrification and Power …
uneven, race-biased urban development process in colonial Zimbabwe. While manufacturers and mines consumed increasing volumes of electricity from the mid-1920s, the home maintained its predominance throughout the period under study. Thus, the domestic sphere provides a perfect arena to analyse the politics of electrification in the …
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development of capitalist mining in colonial zimbabwe by the early 1920s
The politics of locating the third spinning mill in ... 5. Publications on cotton production in colonial Zimbabwe abound, see for example S. Zhara, "The Development of the Cotton Industry in Southern Rhodesia from the Early 1920s to 1942", BA Hons essay, University of Zimbabwe, 1983; T. Moyo, "A History of the Cotton
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Labour Migration in Early Colonial Malawi | SpringerLink
This chapter situates the history of Malawian labour migration in the context of regional mobility and the development of a migrant labour system in southern Africa, in the period from the late nineteenth century leading up to World War Two. Nyasaland experienced a great deal of immigration as well as emigration in the early decades of …
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Women, Land and Urban Governance in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe
From 1890 to 1979 Zimbabwe was under British colonial rule, which shaped access to urban land and spaces on a racist and masculine basis. Urban planning legislation was introduced in 1933 and 1945, ostensibly modelled upon the British planning system (Brown 2001).From the Municipal and Town Management ordinances of 1894, when local …
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THE EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE OF AFRICAN …
Introduction 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 …
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'Dairying Is a White Man's Industry': The Dairy Produce Act …
This article explores white-settler notions of hygiene and debates over the subaltern body, by using dairy farming in colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) in the 1920s and 1930s as a lens through ...
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African Economic Development and Colonial Legacies
This article reviews how colonial rule and African actions during the colonial period affected the resources and institutional settings for subsequent economic development south of the Sahara. The issue is seen from the perspective of the dynamics of development in what was in 1900 an overwhelmingly land-abundant region …
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Invisible Hands: The Political Economy of Child
5 Brief but very useful discussions of child labour in colonial Zimbabwe can be found in C. van Onselen, Chibalo: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1933 (London, 1976), pp. 24-5; S.C. Rubert, "'You Have Taken My Sweat": Agricultural Wage Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1907-1945' (University of California at
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