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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Black Farmers and White Politics in Rhodesia |
Author: | Pollak, Oliver B. |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 74 |
Issue: | 296 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 263-277 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | farmers colonial policy land Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721934 |
Abstract: | In 1925 the Morris Carter Land Commission was set up to inquire into the question of demarcating separate areas. The commission noted the need for individual tenure for Africans who aspired to modernize and better themselves. The commission declared that the ownership of land by Africans should only be permitted in specially designated areas, and recommended that about 8 million acres to be set aside for individual tenure. The article describes why several years elapsed before any occupation of designated land by Africans took place. Sections: the inception of the purchase areas - government indifference to the purchase area farmers, 1930-45 - co-operation between the government and the AFU, 1945-63 - the AFU in the era of the Rhodesian Front. |