PIUS NYAMBARA | University of Zimbabwe (original) (raw)

Papers by PIUS NYAMBARA

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the ‘Communal’ Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s

Africa, 2001

Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualis... more Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualising the peasantry as a homogeneous class, and has therefore enhanced our understanding of the process of rural differentiation. While such writing recognises patterns of differential land holding, however, it has not shown clearly how the differences developed over time. There has been a tendency to argue that land distribution in the ‘communal’ areas is less skewed than other variables and therefore acts as a brake on the process of accumulation and differentiation among the peasantry. The article challenges this basic assumption, arguing that ‘communal’ tenure actually facilitated the development of significant disparities in landholding and accumulation by rural households.

Research paper thumbnail of Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe

International Journal of African Historical Studies, Sep 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Zimbos Never Die?

Research paper thumbnail of Small-Scale Tobacco Growers in Mashonaland East, 2003–2013

BRILL eBooks, May 4, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of 'Communal' Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963–1979

Journal of Southern African Studies, Dec 1, 2001

... My people got scattered about the country during and after the Matabele wars. I believe many ... more ... My people got scattered about the country during and after the Matabele wars. I believe many of Mahiya Mavure people are in your district further down although I wouldn't know which chief they fall under. All this is to give you Sir my background.... ...

Research paper thumbnail of White Women and African Nationalism in Colonial Zimbabwe

Routledge eBooks, Sep 14, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Tobacco Thrives, but the Environment Cries': The Sustainability of Livelihoods from Small-Scale Tobacco Growing in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017

Global environment, Sep 15, 2019

This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fa... more This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and the sustainability of livelihoods among small-scale African tobacco-farmers following the reform programme. Tobacco was significant in the colonial cash economy and remains a key cash crop in post-colonial Zimbabwe since 1980. Much of the extant tobacco literature focuses on white-settler tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe. This study adds to and builds upon an emerging scholarship on African small-scale tobacco producers. Some of the scholars studied the institutional history of tobacco growing and the associated tobacco research and others focused on marketing boards. Geist's work is particularly significant for this study because it examines the environmental impacts of tobacco growing in the developing world. This paper focuses on smallholder flue-cured tobacco growing in Zimbabwe. It observes that the post-independence government made concerted efforts to promote small-scale tobacco-farming through the land resettlement programme and the provision of incentives for increasing agricultural output as well as accelerated black farmers' involvement in the growing of commercial crops, notably tobacco and cotton. The study explores links between the FTLRP and the increase in smallholder tobacco growers and the resulting ecological and livelihood impacts. While tobacco and some tobacco growers appeared to thrive, the environment suffered. Using qualitative and quantitative research approaches and methods like interviews, direct observation, published secondary material, contemporary newspapers and Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) resources, the paper demonstrates that the FTLRP marked the drive to change livelihoods among Zimbabwean farmers.

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the ‘Communal’ Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s

Africa, May 1, 2001

... Bulawayo, *Mas FIGURE 1 Zimbabwe: the location of Gokwe district and (left) the area of study... more ... Bulawayo, *Mas FIGURE 1 Zimbabwe: the location of Gokwe district and (left) the area of study: the Munyati district of Gokwe. Sources Ndanga (1987), p. 13; Bates (1977), p. 37 ... 5 GOK/16A,Munyati Area File, Cheziya-Gokwe District Council, 1980-84. 258 Page 7. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953

International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s

Journal of Agrarian Change, Oct 1, 2001

... than 60,000 families were on the waiting list for resettlement.8 Field research revealed that... more ... than 60,000 families were on the waiting list for resettlement.8 Field research revealed that landlessness, especially among young household heads ... to the squat-ters because politicians often encourage people to migrate to frontier regions such as Gokwe and Binga for political ...

Research paper thumbnail of The origins and development of the cotton industry in Southern Rhodesia 1903-1950s

Research paper thumbnail of White Women and African Nationalism in Colonial Zimbabwe

Routledge eBooks, Sep 14, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming

Journal of Southern African Studies

Research paper thumbnail of A history of land acquisition, commercialisation of agriculture and socio-economic differentiation among peasant farmers in a frontier region: The Gokwe District of northwestern Zimbabwe, c. 1945-1990s

Research paper thumbnail of Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe. Durham and London: Duke University Press (pb £15.95 pb – 0 223 3570 0; hb £64.00 – 0 8223 3582 4); Harare: Weaver Press (price not stated – 1 77922 037 5). 2005, 416 pp

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested landscapes and the power of heritage, by Joost Fontein

African Affairs, 2009

This book is a post-colonial study of the management of Great Zimbabwe. It addresses what Joost F... more This book is a post-colonial study of the management of Great Zimbabwe. It addresses what Joost Fontein refers to as the silence of unheard voices and the silence of anger. He argues that local histories are under-represented in the literature, the museum displays, and the archaeological reports of the site, which present Great Zimbabwe as a place of the past, and archaeology as its only authoritative storyteller. He tries not only to 'fill the silence of historical and ethnographic knowledge of Great Zimbabwe'(p. 19) but also to explore how ...

Research paper thumbnail of Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in a Frontier Region: The Gokwe District of Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963–79

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of locating the third spinning mill in Southern Rhodesia, 1951-1953

The textile industry in Southern Rhodesia witnessed rapid growth during and after the Second Worl... more The textile industry in Southern Rhodesia witnessed rapid growth during and after the Second World War. The industry was largely dependent on locally grown cotton and the capacity to spin the cotton into yarn. The cotton Industry and Research Board (CRIB) established to oversee the development of the cotton industry in the colony, constructed the first spinning mill in Gatooma in 1943 with a capacity of 1 000 spindles, which was later increased to 35 000 spindles with the construction of the No. 2 mill in 1951. In the same year the government sanctioned the construction of a third mill, but it was not immediately built. The increase in the number of industrial concerns using the CRIB yarn and the expected expansion of textile demands from a wider federal market from 1953, generated debate in government, business circles and by interested parties on the possible location of the third mill. This article examines these debates that have largely escaped the attention of scholars who hav...

Research paper thumbnail of University of the Witwatersrand Institute for Advanced Social Research

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the ‘Communal’ Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s

Africa, 2001

Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualis... more Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualising the peasantry as a homogeneous class, and has therefore enhanced our understanding of the process of rural differentiation. While such writing recognises patterns of differential land holding, however, it has not shown clearly how the differences developed over time. There has been a tendency to argue that land distribution in the ‘communal’ areas is less skewed than other variables and therefore acts as a brake on the process of accumulation and differentiation among the peasantry. The article challenges this basic assumption, arguing that ‘communal’ tenure actually facilitated the development of significant disparities in landholding and accumulation by rural households.

Research paper thumbnail of Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe

International Journal of African Historical Studies, Sep 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Zimbos Never Die?

Research paper thumbnail of Small-Scale Tobacco Growers in Mashonaland East, 2003–2013

BRILL eBooks, May 4, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of 'Communal' Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963–1979

Journal of Southern African Studies, Dec 1, 2001

... My people got scattered about the country during and after the Matabele wars. I believe many ... more ... My people got scattered about the country during and after the Matabele wars. I believe many of Mahiya Mavure people are in your district further down although I wouldn't know which chief they fall under. All this is to give you Sir my background.... ...

Research paper thumbnail of White Women and African Nationalism in Colonial Zimbabwe

Routledge eBooks, Sep 14, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Tobacco Thrives, but the Environment Cries': The Sustainability of Livelihoods from Small-Scale Tobacco Growing in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017

Global environment, Sep 15, 2019

This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fa... more This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and the sustainability of livelihoods among small-scale African tobacco-farmers following the reform programme. Tobacco was significant in the colonial cash economy and remains a key cash crop in post-colonial Zimbabwe since 1980. Much of the extant tobacco literature focuses on white-settler tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe. This study adds to and builds upon an emerging scholarship on African small-scale tobacco producers. Some of the scholars studied the institutional history of tobacco growing and the associated tobacco research and others focused on marketing boards. Geist's work is particularly significant for this study because it examines the environmental impacts of tobacco growing in the developing world. This paper focuses on smallholder flue-cured tobacco growing in Zimbabwe. It observes that the post-independence government made concerted efforts to promote small-scale tobacco-farming through the land resettlement programme and the provision of incentives for increasing agricultural output as well as accelerated black farmers' involvement in the growing of commercial crops, notably tobacco and cotton. The study explores links between the FTLRP and the increase in smallholder tobacco growers and the resulting ecological and livelihood impacts. While tobacco and some tobacco growers appeared to thrive, the environment suffered. Using qualitative and quantitative research approaches and methods like interviews, direct observation, published secondary material, contemporary newspapers and Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) resources, the paper demonstrates that the FTLRP marked the drive to change livelihoods among Zimbabwean farmers.

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the ‘Communal’ Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s

Africa, May 1, 2001

... Bulawayo, *Mas FIGURE 1 Zimbabwe: the location of Gokwe district and (left) the area of study... more ... Bulawayo, *Mas FIGURE 1 Zimbabwe: the location of Gokwe district and (left) the area of study: the Munyati district of Gokwe. Sources Ndanga (1987), p. 13; Bates (1977), p. 37 ... 5 GOK/16A,Munyati Area File, Cheziya-Gokwe District Council, 1980-84. 258 Page 7. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953

International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s

Journal of Agrarian Change, Oct 1, 2001

... than 60,000 families were on the waiting list for resettlement.8 Field research revealed that... more ... than 60,000 families were on the waiting list for resettlement.8 Field research revealed that landlessness, especially among young household heads ... to the squat-ters because politicians often encourage people to migrate to frontier regions such as Gokwe and Binga for political ...

Research paper thumbnail of The origins and development of the cotton industry in Southern Rhodesia 1903-1950s

Research paper thumbnail of White Women and African Nationalism in Colonial Zimbabwe

Routledge eBooks, Sep 14, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming

Journal of Southern African Studies

Research paper thumbnail of A history of land acquisition, commercialisation of agriculture and socio-economic differentiation among peasant farmers in a frontier region: The Gokwe District of northwestern Zimbabwe, c. 1945-1990s

Research paper thumbnail of Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe. Durham and London: Duke University Press (pb £15.95 pb – 0 223 3570 0; hb £64.00 – 0 8223 3582 4); Harare: Weaver Press (price not stated – 1 77922 037 5). 2005, 416 pp

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested landscapes and the power of heritage, by Joost Fontein

African Affairs, 2009

This book is a post-colonial study of the management of Great Zimbabwe. It addresses what Joost F... more This book is a post-colonial study of the management of Great Zimbabwe. It addresses what Joost Fontein refers to as the silence of unheard voices and the silence of anger. He argues that local histories are under-represented in the literature, the museum displays, and the archaeological reports of the site, which present Great Zimbabwe as a place of the past, and archaeology as its only authoritative storyteller. He tries not only to 'fill the silence of historical and ethnographic knowledge of Great Zimbabwe'(p. 19) but also to explore how ...

Research paper thumbnail of Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in a Frontier Region: The Gokwe District of Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963–79

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of locating the third spinning mill in Southern Rhodesia, 1951-1953

The textile industry in Southern Rhodesia witnessed rapid growth during and after the Second Worl... more The textile industry in Southern Rhodesia witnessed rapid growth during and after the Second World War. The industry was largely dependent on locally grown cotton and the capacity to spin the cotton into yarn. The cotton Industry and Research Board (CRIB) established to oversee the development of the cotton industry in the colony, constructed the first spinning mill in Gatooma in 1943 with a capacity of 1 000 spindles, which was later increased to 35 000 spindles with the construction of the No. 2 mill in 1951. In the same year the government sanctioned the construction of a third mill, but it was not immediately built. The increase in the number of industrial concerns using the CRIB yarn and the expected expansion of textile demands from a wider federal market from 1953, generated debate in government, business circles and by interested parties on the possible location of the third mill. This article examines these debates that have largely escaped the attention of scholars who hav...

Research paper thumbnail of University of the Witwatersrand Institute for Advanced Social Research