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Zimbabwe: Two Decades of Dithering - Where Is Zimbabwe's Agrarian Bourgeoisie? President Emmerson Mnangagwa (second from right), First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and farm manager Patrick Mnangagwa lead the China Lesso Delegation headed by Tang Hai Bo (left) on a tour of their Precabe Farm in Sherwood outside Kwekwe on Christmas Day 2019. 15 December 2020 By Terence Chitapi Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African co...

By Terrence Chitapi It is now exactly two decades since Zimbabwe embarked on the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) which started with the animated land occupations (locally known as  jambanja) involving contested land expropriation (Cliffe et al. 2011) from approximately 4,500 large-scale white farmers to about 150,000 ‘new settlers on small plots’ (Moore 2015). One objective was to redress the land ownership pattern then skewed to favour the white minority. ‘Fast track’ entails two strands of ‘new settlement’ – the A1 (or small farm) and the A2 (or large farm) models. T...

Zimbabwean commercial farmer Tommy Bayley rides an old bicycle ahead of war veterans and villagers, who invaded his farm at Danbury Park outside the capital Harare, in this file picture taken April 8, 2000. REUTERS/Howard Burditt/Files Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the Afr...