In the beginning of the 1980s South Africa launched a series of strategies in order to undermine efforts by other states in Southern Africa to promote regional development and reduce economic dependence. One of the main ...

This chapter reviews a recent proposal along the lines of central place theory to build Rural Service Centres (RSC.) in Zimbabwe’ s Tribal Trust Lands. It concludes that a less concrete, more organic approach would ...

While cotton is indigenous to Zimbabwe, it was not grown as a commercial crop prior to the twentieth century. In l9l9 cotton seeds were distributed to large- scale farmers in Zimbabwe and the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation ...

The aim of this paper is not to examine the various regional economic groups in Africa, but to provide a brief overview of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). The paper examines the objectives, ...

The general objectives of the research project are as follows: 1. To describe current and historical .patterns of agricultural trade: within the SADCC region; between SADCC countries and South Africa; and between SADCC ...

This paper has as its object to initiate a discussion on the contribution of Tanganyika cattle owners to the war efforts. And Sukumaland, which is the focal area for this paper, is a natural choice for starting such a ...

This paper begins by discussing some of the less developed areas of Europe, where tourism has generally been very successful. It then moves on to deal with islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean, ending ...