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Title:Age and land in a native reserve
Author:Hunt, N.A.
Year:1963
Periodical:Nada: The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department Annual
Volume:40
Pages:108-112
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:customary law
land law
Abstract:Obervations based on a survey of land rights in the Que Que Reserve, Gwelo District. The Reserve is a small one and lies about 20 miles from Gwelo. There are 1,833 landholders issued with rights under the Native Land Husbandry Act. It is possible to conclude that 23 percent of the arable holdings are being worked by men who through age or infirmity are in fact incapable of doing an efficient agricultural job, 55 percent of the arable holdings are worked by women, which makes it doubtful if 78 percent of the arable holdings are being properly worked. The land is not the sole, or even the main source of income, and there is little incentive to improve techniques and thus increase the cash returns from agriculture. The incentive to improve is just not there nor in many cases the necessity. The picture emerges of a landowning class growing steadily older, more infirm and more conservative with each generation. What seems to be required is some means of removing the cultivator from the land when he is too old to work it efficiently, and of making it unnecessary for the retired urban worker to settle on land which he cannot work properly. The introduction of an old age pension scheme is suggested.
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