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Zimbabwe: Two Decades of Dithering - Where Is Zimbabwe s Agrarian Bourgeoisie?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa (second from right), First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and farm manager Patrick Mnangagwa lead the China Lesso Delegation headed by Tang Hai Bo (left) on a tour of their Precabe Farm in Sherwood outside Kwekwe on Christmas Day 2019.
15 December 2020
By Terence Chitapi
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
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Doctors joined other NHS workers at a demonstration outside downing Street highlighting the blood on the hands of government ministers
SHORTAGES of PPE (personal protective equipment) during the early months of Covid-19 left doctors feeling âabandonedâ by the government, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has warned MPs.
The failure to supply PPE to frontline doctors in March and April came as a bitter shock to the medical profession, Dr Nagpaul told members of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, with doctors having previously been assured there were adequate stockpiles of PPE.
Addressing the committeeâs hearing into governmentâs procurement processes and contracts for Covid-19 PPE via video link, Dr Nagpaul said doctors started to experience problems getting protective equipment as early as March.
By Terrence Chitapi
It is now exactly two decades since Zimbabwe embarked on the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) which started with the animated land occupations (locally known as
jambanja) involving contested land expropriation (Cliffe et al. 2011) from approximately 4,500 large-scale white farmers to about 150,000 ‘new settlers on small plots’ (Moore 2015).
One objective was to redress the land ownership pattern then skewed to favour the white minority. ‘Fast track’ entails two strands of ‘new settlement’ – the A1 (or small farm) and the A2 (or large farm) models. The latter’s logic was the creation of a ‘new’ black commercial (read agrarian capitalist) farmer, rivalling or replacing the outgoing white commercial farmer. These (mostly white) commercial farmers had been the bedrock of Zimbabwe’s capitalist economy. It was hoped that the new (black) commercial farms would continue to underpin it.
Zimbabwean commercial farmer Tommy Bayley rides an old bicycle ahead of war veterans and villagers, who invaded his farm at Danbury Park outside the capital Harare, in this file picture taken April 8, 2000. REUTERS/Howard Burditt/Files
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
By Terrance Chitapi
Land grabs rattle farmer invaders on a white commercial farm. Credit: Guardian