The ideology of ‘communal’ land tenure in Zimbabwe: Mythogenesis enacted?
Author:
- Angela CheaterACAngela Cheater
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa
- Vol. 60 (2) , 188-206
Abstract
Opening Paragraph: Land is widely regarded as central to the politics of both colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. Land was, ostensibly, the core issue over which the liberation struggle was waged. On the successful redistribution of land, in Shamuyarira's (1984: 8) view, will depend ‘the future reputation and credibility of the new socio-economic and political order among the Zimbabwean masses’. Land, then, is ‘vital’ (ibid.) to both leaders and led in Zimbabwe.Keywords
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