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dc.contributor.author | Thebe, Vusilizwe![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-28T13:32:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-28T13:32:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06 | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines acts of land 'self-provisioning' ('siziphile' land occupations) and 'radical land restitution' (of land previously annexed from people by the local authority for a pilot grazing project) by villagers in a communal area in Lupane District in north-western Zimbabwe. Situating these occurrences within the wider and historical context of 'madiro' (freedom farming and unauthorised development of settlements) and Matabeleland land politics and semi-proletarianisation, it stresses the livelihood history of households, the disappointments with local job opportunities and destruction of urban-based livelihoods in a crumbling economy, and the accompanying crisis of communal area agriculture. It concludes that these factors provided a real threat to semi-proletarianisation. By self-provisioning of the land the overriding concern of villagers was to maintain a certain level of livelihood survival, even if it was at odds with their livelihood strategies, while they sought opportunities to maintain semi-proletarianisation. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Anthropology and Archaeology | en |
dc.description.uri | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MOA | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Thebe, V. 2017, 'Legacies of 'madiro'? Worker-peasantry, livelihood crisis and 'siziphile' land occupations in semi-arid north-western Zimbabwe', Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 201-224. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-7777 (online) | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-278X (print) | en |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1017/S0022278X17000052 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61151 | |
dc.language.iso | English | en |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
dc.rights | © Cambridge University Press 2017 | en |
dc.subject | Land occupations | en |
dc.subject | Madiro | en |
dc.subject | Semi-proletarianisation | en |
dc.subject | Siziphile | en |
dc.subject | Zimbabwe | en |
dc.title | Legacies of 'madiro'? Worker-peasantry, livelihood crisis and 'siziphile' land occupations in semi-arid north-western Zimbabwe | en_ZA |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en |