Browsing Economic History Staff Publications by Issue Date
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A History of the Rhodesian Stock Exchange: The Formative Years, 1946-1952
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)The Stock Exchange is a market where stocks and shares are purchased and sold and capital is raised for the purposes of industry and both local and central government.1 Markets for the trading of stocks and shares ... -
‘A Crisis of Expectation?’ Narratives on the Impact of Migration on Gender and Family in Zimbabwe, 2000-2011
(University of Zimbabwe, 2013)The article employs the narratives of those left behind to explore the impact of migration on the Zimbabwean family institution and its gender terrain in the post- 2000 period. It uses narratives collected from various ... -
TILCOR-Sanyati Irrigation: A case of development within the decentralisation policy context in colonial Zimbabwe, 1956-1980.
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2015)Extensive global and African scholarship exists on how decentralisation has been implemented to achieve rural growth. Pre-eminent scholars like Liihring, Mutizwa- Mangiza, Fortmann and Hankla contend that decentralisation ... -
“Resettled and Yet Unsettled?” Land Conflicts and Food (in) security in Insiza North, Zimbabwe, 2005-2013
(UZP, 2015-11)The Land resettlement programme in Zimbabwe beginning around 2000 has been hotly contested within and outside the country. The land occupations had far reaching effects on the social, political and economic landscape of ... -
Colonial agrarian history of Sanyati (Zimbabwe): Prelude, debates and innuendoes of Tribal Trust Land Development Corporation (TILCOR) Decentralised Development, 1948-1979.
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2016)This article examines the colonial agrarian history of Gowe-Sanyati Communal Lands in Zimbabwe between 1948 and 1979 paying attention to the context, debates and innuendoes of Tribal Trust Land Development Corporation (TILCOR) ... -
Water and the environment in southern Africa: A review of the literature since 1990.
(AOSIS (African Online Scientific Information Systems), 2019-11-13)This article is a review of the dominant literature on water issues, water rights and the environment in southern Africa. Being the first in a series of reviews of different regions, it is framed through a survey of national ...