<< 67 0 obj << 37 0 obj When these met with little success, the destocking programme became mandatory in 1941, forcing all residents of the TTLs to sell or slaughter animals declared surplus. [32], In 1986, the government of Zimbabwe cited financial restraints and an ongoing drought as the two overriding factors influencing the slow progress of land reform. /TT2 65 0 R /Widths [ 278 ] endobj [34] Local media outlets soon exposed huge breaches of the code by Mugabe's family and senior officials in ZANU-PF. /FontBBox [ -568 -307 2000 1007 ] [23] The disruption of veterinary services resulted in massive livestock losses, and the cultivation of cash crops was hampered by guerrilla raids. [19] Secondly, the legislation resulted in enforced overuse of the land in the TTLs due to overpopulation there. /FontDescriptor 39 0 R Land reform in Korea is << /ColorSpace << /FontFamily (Times New Roman) null /Type /Font The effect of Zimbabwe's failed land reform programme is clear. << The opposition mostly boycotted the drafting stage of the constitution claiming that this new version was to entrench Mugabe politically. Chipika, S. Chibanda and P.G. SUMMARY. endobj [7] Increasing poverty levels combined with the increased informality of farming operations amongst farmers who received redistributed land has led to an increase in the use of child labour especially in the growing of sugar cane. endobj The newly resettled peasants had largely failed to secure loans from commercial banks because they did not have title over the land on which they were resettled, and thus could not use it as collateral. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] The second president Robert Mugabe established land reform policies blocked economic development as well. 21 0 obj My mother just received a Notice of Coverage sent to her by the Department of Land Reform of its Provincial Land Reform Office here in Northern Samar, Philippines. /Font << /Descent -216 /TT12 40 0 R /ColorSpace << /XHeight 1000 Notice the rapid accelleration of the decline of the Zimbabwe Dollar on this chart, in the year 2002, the year ZDERA of 2001 came into effect. [23], Inequalities in land ownership were inflated by a growing overpopulation problem, depletion of over-utilised tracts, and escalating poverty in subsistence areas parallel with the under-utilisation of land on commercial farms. /Length 1163 /FirstChar 32 /BaseFont /ArialMT 64 0 obj >> [44][45] In late 2002 the seizure was ruled illegal by the High and Supreme Courts of Zimbabwe; however the previous owner was unable to effect the court orders and General Mujuru continued living at the farm until his death on 15 August 2011. /ExtGState << Land reform in Zimbabwe officially began in 1980 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, as an anti-racist effort to more equitably distribute land between black subsistence farmers and white Zimbabweans of European ancestry, who had traditionally enjoyed superior political and economic status. /TT8 71 0 R /Subtype /TrueType [32] Prime Minister Mugabe, who assumed an executive presidency in 1987, had urged restraint by enforcing a leadership code of conduct which barred members of the ruling party, ZANU-PF, from monopolising large tracts of farmland and then renting them out for profit. Zimbabwe is not the only country that has recently had to deal with urban land reform. /FontFamily (Times New Roman) Appraisal Mission Report. /Widths [ 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Because the primary beneficiaries of the land reform were members of the Government and their families, despite the fact that most had no experience in running a farm, the drop in total farm output has been tremendous and has even produced starvation and famine, according to aid agencies. § Speeding up the identification for … /Title (Microsoft Word - 4 SEP1415) /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /FontDescriptor 70 0 R [76] In 2019, Zimbabwe produced 258 million kg of tobacco, the second-largest crop on record. JOHANNESBURG, 3 October (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform programme has ignored the critical role played by the commercial farming sector … /Type /ExtGState /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 9.0.0 \(Windows\)) Land reform in countries with high levels of land inequality is seen by most development experts as an effective means of reducing poverty, since land enriches the asset portfolio of poor households (HHs) and carries with it the potential for agricultural production and entrepreneurship. /TT2 65 0 R /ColorSpace << Julius Nyerere was said to have told Mugabe in 1980 that Zimbabwe was a jewel. endobj [22], The Southern Rhodesian Land Apportionment Act reserved 49 million acres for white ownership and left 17.7 million acres of land unassigned to either the white preserve or the TTLs. 4.3.1 The Positive/Negative Effects of the FTLRP 67 4.3.2 The Negative/Positive Effects of the FTLRP on the Environment 70 ... chapter traces land reform in Zimbabwe from the time when it started and how it was implemented by both the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean governments. >> Population growth frequently resulted in the over-utilisation of the existing land, which became greatly diminished both in terms of cultivation and grazing due to the larger number of people attempting to share the same acreage. null << >> Land Reform Programme strategy. endobj The effects of the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe were negative such as currency depreciated, shortage of basic gods, and high unemployment. /LastChar 32 an overall negative impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in their study on India (although some state-specific effects suggested heterogeneity in the impact of land reform across states). In response to moves by the National Constitutional Assembly, a group of academics, trade unionists and other political activists, the government drafted a new constitution. [63] Critics continue to maintain that the primary beneficiaries are Mugabe loyalists. endobj << endobj endobj The effect of Zimbabwe's failed land reform programme is clear. /GS1 61 0 R International tobacco companies contracted with small-scale subsistence farmers to buy their crop. In return, the farmers received agricultural inputs such as seeds and fertiliser, as well as advice and supervision. [19] By 1913 this had been extended to 21.5 million acres. 722 722 556 722 667 556 611 722 722 944 722 722 611 333 0 333 0 0 0 444 500 444 500 Prior to 2000 Zimbabwe was hailed as a conservation success story, with large areas of commercial (private) land outside of national parks being used to support wildlife. [ /ICCBased 57 0 R ] [22], Following Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, land legislation was again amended with the Rhodesian Land Tenure Act of 1969. Both the commercial farms and the subsistence sector maintained large cattle herds, but over 60% of domestic beef was furnished by the former. [35] Public opinion on the Zimbabwean land reform process among British citizens was decidedly mediocre; it was perceived as a poor investment on the part of the UK's government in an ineffectual and shoddily implemented programme. [81][6], The rebound in Zimbabwean GDP following dollarisation is attributable to loans and foreign aid obtained by pledging the country's vast natural resources—including diamonds, gold, and platinum—to foreign powers. /TT10 63 0 R Growth in the sector has seen an increase in small and large scale mining operations. /ModDate (D:20140906193413+05'30') Zimbabwe’s land reform has had a bad press. /Cs6 60 0 R 0 667 0 722 0 667 0 778 0 0 0 0 889 722 0 611 0 0 0 611 0 0 889 0 0 611 0 0 0 0 0 Cabinet ministers held 160 farms among them, sitting ZANU-PF parliamentarians 150, and the 2,500 war veterans only two. /StemV 136 The second president Robert Mugabe established land reform policies blocked economic development as well. /TT2 65 0 R [17] This reflected a larger trend of permanent European settlement in the milder, drier regions of Southern Africa as opposed to the tropical and sub-tropical climates further north. 6 0 obj However, these concessions were strictly regulated, and land was only offered to those individuals able to prove they had the necessary capital to develop it. /BaseFont /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT /TT8 71 0 R [22] A number of successive land commissions were thus appointed to study the problem and apportion the land. This early land reform produced a rather feudal form of politics based on racial and class discrimination imposed on the African population by the British government and white Rhodesians.5 Also, tribal traditions present no form of property rights as understood by Western culture. [4], Land reform has had a serious negative effect on the Zimbabwe's economy and heavily contributed to its collapse in the 2000s. /TT4 67 0 R << >> >> Land reform in Korea has been found to have increased agricultural production by enhancing economic incentives (Jeon and Kim 2000). /LastChar 150 Now time for overall positive and negative points of the Land reform initiatives in India, by various Governments. [30] Reduction of funding posed another dilemma: property prices were now beyond what the Ministry of Lands, Resettlement, and Redevelopment could afford to meet its goals. SUMMARY. The Zimbabwe Farmers Union believes the land reform will have a positive impact on economy in terms of increased output and employment opportunities if it is implemented in a manner that addresses three key aspects:- Selection and settling of competent well resourced farmers Providing settled farmers with a secure tenure system 49 0 obj [15] Land was considered the collective property of all the residents in a given chiefdom, with the chief mediating disagreements and issues pertaining to its use. >> 43 0 obj Broken down, the 50,000 square kilometres meant that every year between 1998 and 2003, the government intended to purchase 10,000 square kilometres for redistribution. /FontBBox [ -547 -307 1401 1032 ] [14], Most Shona cultures had a theoretically communal attitude towards land ownership; the later European concept of officiating individual property ownership was unheard of. << [31] It was also unable to build sufficient roads, clinics, and schools for the large number of people it was resettling in new areas. /TT2 65 0 R Since Zimbabwe's land reform process in the year 2000 and the subsequent economic down turn, increasing focus has been placed on mining as the main productive activities. [61] About 5% of the households (not the same as 5% of the land) went to absentee farmers well connected to ZANU-PF. Her government's position was spelt out in a letter to Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister, Kumbirai Kangai:[36], The letter concluded by stating that a programme of rapid land acquisition would be impossible to support, citing concern about the damage which this might do to Zimbabwe's agricultural output and its prospects of attracting investment. /GS1 61 0 R /FontDescriptor 64 0 R 12 0 obj 71 0 obj /GS1 61 0 R A total of 10,816,886 hectares had been acquired since 2000, compared to the 3,498,444 purchased from voluntary sellers between 1980 and 1998. /Cs6 60 0 R 28 0 obj >> << Most coverage of Zimbabwe’s land reform insists that agricultural production has almost totally collapsed, that food insecurity is rife, that rural economies are in precipitous decline and that farm labour has all been displaced. Book Review of The Land Question in Zimbabwe - Sam Moyo, Development in Practice, Vol. Land reforms include the change of laws in a country, reforms such as these may be upheld by a government or other leading groups. Since Zimbabwe's land reform process in the year 2000 and the subsequent economic down turn, increasing focus has been placed on mining as the main productive activities. [22] This was a vital contribution to the economy, which was still underpinned by its agricultural exports. [51][citation needed], Parliament, dominated by Zanu-PF, passed a constitutional amendment, signed into law on 12 September 2005, that nationalised farmland acquired through the "Fast Track" process and deprived original landowners of the right to challenge in court the government's decision to expropriate their land. Region II was highveld, also in the east, where the land could be used intensively for grain cultivation such as maize, tobacco, and wheat. [14] Although the Ndebele elite were uninterested in cultivation, land ownership was considered one major source of an individual's wealth and power—the others being cattle and slaves. /BaseFont /TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT (�+����D�̪ -4�w��8�$}�=�VP��Ρ��T��A"���0�7�4�Fc� Abstract. endobj [27] The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Sir Shridath Ramphal, also received assurances from the American ambassador in London, Kingman Brewster, that the United States would likewise contribute capital for "a substantial amount for a process of land redistribution and they would undertake to encourage the British government to give similar assurances". They agreed that the inception phase, covering the first 24 months, should start immediately, particularly appreciating the political imperative and urgency of the proposal. << ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Effects of the Land Apportionment Act. null >> [29] Many former supporters of the nationalist movements felt that the promises of Nkomo and Mugabe with regards to the land had not been truly fulfilled. /FontStretch /Normal 15 0 obj 70 0 obj >> In this first wave of farm invasions, a total of 110,000 square kilometres of land had been seized. >> /BaseFont /TimesNewRomanPSMT /FirstChar 32 63 0 obj [82][83], In response to what was described as the "fast-track land reform" in Zimbabwe, the United States government put the Zimbabwean government on a credit freeze in 2001 through the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 (specifically Section 4C titled Multilateral Financing Restriction),[84], Zimbabwe's trade surplus was $322 million in 2001, in 2002 trade deficit was $18 million, to grow rapidly in subsequent years. 69 0 obj /TT4 67 0 R /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] [33], Between April 1980 and September 1987, the acreage of land occupied by white-owned commercial farms was reduced by about 20%. /Descent -211 [22] Its principal crops included sugarcane, coffee, cotton, tobacco and several varieties of high-yield hybrid maize. /Type /FontDescriptor ODA. [35] President Mugabe responded by indicating that in his opinion land reform was a strictly political issue, not one to be questioned or debated by the judiciary. Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform shows little benefit 15 years on. [18] In 1889 Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company (BSAC) introduced the earliest white settlers to Zimbabwe as prospectors, seeking concessions from the Ndebele for mineral rights. /TT12 40 0 R /TT4 67 0 R /XHeight 1000 /Cs6 60 0 R Made warned that banks failing to lend a substantial portion of their income to these farmers would have their licenses withdrawn. /FontBBox [ -558 -307 2000 1026 ] The recent negative developments in the economy in terms of the crush in the Zimbabwe dollar, the poor performance of the capital markets etc. /ColorSpace << /FontName /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT The truth however is much more complex. Mining and agriculture are the key economic activities in Zimbabwe. settlements thrive to survive. /Subtype /TrueType 62 0 obj /TT2 65 0 R /Type /Pages << /Ascent 891 /FontBBox [ -665 -325 2000 1006 ] [���K��_X�c3[n�. Africa South Africa: The unknown impact of land reform. /TT4 67 0 R It is hoped that one of the positive effects of the indigenisation laws is to enable government to effectively regulate the direction of bank credit. It empowered the government to claim tracts adjacent to the former TTLs (now known simply as "Communal Areas") and mark them for resettlement purposes, provided the owners could be persuaded to sell. This in itself shows the robustness of the process, and how right it has been. endobj 35 0 obj [34] Despite calls for accountability, the party members were never disciplined. [35] That year all farms marked for redistribution were no longer chosen or discussed by government ministries, but at ZANU-PF's annual congress. Smith's administration subsequently recognised the traditional leaders of each chiefdom as the final authority on land allocation in the TTLs. Notwithstanding the ANC’s view that land reform is key for South ... is likely to have huge knock-on effects on the agriculture ... in Zimbabwe. [32], The perceived monopolisation of land by the ruling party provoked intense opposition from the ESAP donor states, which argued that those outside the patronage of ZANU-PF were unlikely to benefit. << /Flags 98 [69] About 45 percent of the population is now considered malnourished. endobj /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding endobj [48], On 10 June 2004, a spokesperson for the British embassy, Sophie Honey, said:[49], The Minister for Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement, John Nkomo, had declared five days earlier that all land, from crop fields to wildlife conservancies, would soon become state property. [2] The United Nations has identified several key shortcomings with the contemporary programme, namely failure to compensate ousted landowners as called for by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the poor handling of boundary disputes, and chronic shortages of material and personnel needed to carry out resettlement in an orderly manner. 18 0 obj [27] To secure Mugabe and Nkomo's support for the constitutional agreement, Lord Carrington announced that the United Kingdom would be prepared to assist land resettlement with technical assistance and financial aid. According to the United Nation's children's agency, UNICEF, around 3 million Zimbabweans need regularly food aid. In January 2006, Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said Zimbabwe was considering legislation that would compel commercial banks to finance black peasants who had been allocated formerly white-owned farmland in the land reforms. 41 0 obj /CreationDate (D:20140906193413+05'30') [35] Many farms were delisted and then re-listed as the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture debated the merits of acquiring various properties,[32] especially those which ZANU-PF had ordered be expropriated for unspecified "political reasons". endobj /TT2 65 0 R >> 42 0 obj << Zimbabwe responded by embarking on a "fast track" redistribution campaign, forcibly confiscating white farms without compensation. >> >> [23] A campaign of systematic villagisation followed as the Rhodesian Army shifted segments of the black population into guarded settlements to prevent their subversion by the insurgents. This presentation briefly discusses the history of sanctions, disputations which have been generated by the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe and outlines the sanctions road map. /ColorSpace << I personally suggest that the land reform in Zimbabwe rather caused negative effects for the country. This in effect was the beginning of Zimbabwe’s land problem. argue that redistributive land reform can improve growth. null /Cs6 60 0 R During the first and second phases of the land reform programme government pursued a narrowly defined land reform programme which focused solely on the In his Ph.D. thesis Traditions of Domesticity in ‘’Modern” Zimbabwe Politics; Race Gender and Class in the Government of Commercial Farm Workers in Hurunawe District. /Type /Font 0 500 500 444 500 444 333 500 556 278 0 500 278 778 556 500 500 500 389 389 278 556 /LastChar 121 endobj >> endobj /ItalicAngle -15 [14], Land hunger was at the centre of the Rhodesian Bush War, and was addressed at Lancaster House, which sought to concede equitable redistribution to the landless without damaging the white farmers' vital contribution to Zimbabwe's economy. >> [71] By 2008, tobacco production had collapsed to 48 million kg, just 21% of the amount grown in 2000 and smaller than the crop grown in 1950. [32] While powerless to challenge the acquisition itself, landowners were permitted some lateral to negotiate their compensation amounts with the state. >> [19], During the early 1950s, Southern Rhodesia passed the African Land Husbandry Act, which attempted to reform the communal system in the TTLs by giving black Africans the right to apply for formal title deeds to specific tracts. endobj /Widths [ 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 333 0 0 250 333 250 0 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 /BaseFont /Arial-BoldMT << /LastChar 32 >> [22] In sharp contrast, the life of typical subsistence farmers was difficult, and their labour poorly rewarded. /ExtGState << [22] The newly created Zimbabwean Ministry of Lands, Resettlement, and Redevelopment announced later that year that land reform would be necessary to alleviate overpopulation in the former TTLs, extend the production potential of small-scale subsistence farmers, and improve the standards of living of rural blacks. [35] In 1996, party interests became even more inseparable from the issue of land reform when President Mugabe gave ZANU-PF's central committee overriding powers— superseding those of the Zimbabwean courts as well as the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture—to delegate on property rights. After that, a "willing buyer, willing seller" principle came into effect with Britain to fund the buying of white-owned farms. 444 333 500 500 278 278 500 278 778 500 500 500 500 333 389 278 500 500 722 500 500 [35], The increasing politicisation of land reform was accompanied by the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. A massively unequal land holding system was redistributed with mixed effects – many positive, some negative – as discussed on this blog multiple times. [60] The study reported that of around 7 million hectares of land redistributed via the land reform (or 20% of Zimbabwe's area), 49.9% of those who received land were rural peasants, 18.3% were "unemployed or in low-paid jobs in regional towns, growth points and mines," 16.5% were civil servants, and 6.7% were of the Zimbabwean working class. [22] Region I comprised an area in the eastern highlands with markedly higher rainfall best suited to the cultivation of diversified cash crops such as coffee and tea. [23] Land ownership in these regions was determined by race under the terms of the Southern Rhodesian Land Apportionment Act, passed in 1930, which reserved Regions I, II, and III for white settlement. [56], Central Committee Report for the 17th Annual National People’s Conference, ZANU-PF[57][58], Conflicting reports emerged regarding the effects of Mugabe's land reform programme. Figure 1.4 Distribution of the three main land use types in Zimbabwe prior to the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme in 2000 (Chi ld, 1995b). [16], The first white farmers began to immigrate from South Africa and the United Kingdom during the late nineteenth century, less than a hundred years after the Ndebele invasions. As erosion increased, the ability of the subsistence sector to feed its adherents diminished greatly. Jurisdiction ‘Land’ is a State subject under the Constitution=> different States have evolved differently in the field of land management. [22] Two years later, as part of the Internal Settlement, Zimbabwe Rhodesia's incoming biracial government under Bishop Abel Muzorewa abolished the reservation of land according to race. [2], Despite extensive financial assistance from the UK, the first phase of Zimbabwe's land reform programme was widely regarded as unsuccessful. Ndebele monarchs acquired large swaths of land for themselves accordingly. JOHANNESBURG, 3 October (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform programme has ignored the critical role played by the commercial farming sector in the economy, analysts and farmers have warned. /Type /FontDescriptor Land reform in Zimbabwe officially began in 1980 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, as an anti-racist effort to more equitably distribute land between black subsistence farmers and white Zimbabweans of European ancestry, who had traditionally enjoyed superior political and economic status. Palmer, R. 1996. Land Reform under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe: Land Use Change in the Mashonaland Provinces Moyo, S. 1998. World media demonised Zimbabwe and the fast-track land reforms which were initiated in 1999. /Length 129 [10] In 2019 the Commercial Farmers Union stated that white farmers who had land expropriated under the fast track program had agreed to accept an interim compensation offer by the Zimbabwean government of RTGS$53 million (US$17 million) as part of the government effort to compensate dispossessed farmers. /FontFamily (Arial) /BaseFont /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT >> >> endobj [77][78] This increase in production came at the cost of quality as the capacity to produce higher-value cured high-nicotine tobacco was lost being largely replaced by lower-value filler-quality tobacco. This paper assesses the potential consequences of a land-reform … [41] Violent confrontations between the farmers and the war veterans occurred and resulted in exchanges of gunfire, as well as a state of armed siege on the affected farms. After Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform: Preliminary Observations on the Near Future of Zimbabwe’s Efforts to Resist Globalization, Bill Derman, 2006, Colloque international “Les frontières de la question foncière – At the frontier of land issues”. /Type /Font [23] Those who remained on tracts in the TTLs found themselves having to cope with topsoil depletion due to overuse; large amounts of topsoil were stripped of their vegetation cover and rendered unproductive as a consequence. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] [16] In the late 1990s, Prime Minister Tony Blair terminated this arrangement when funds available from Margaret Thatcher's administration were exhausted, repudiating all commitments to land reform. [27] This was reflective of prevailing attitudes in their guerrilla armies, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) respectively, and rural support bases, which had high expectations of the redistribution of land. >> In February 2000, the African National Congress media liaison department reported that Mugabe had given himself 15 farms, while Simon Muzenda received 13. [22] This legislation proved so unpopular and difficult to enforce that incoming Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith ordered its suspension in the mid 1960s. The land would be sold in the meantime, and the government obliged to evict the preexisting occupants. /Descent -216 >> /FontWeight 700 This in itself shows the robustness of the process, and how right it has been. 3 0 obj /ExtGState << 31 0 obj Annual production of maize, the main everyday food for Zimbabweans, was reduced by 31% during 2002 to 2012, while annual small grains production was up 163% during the same period. [20], Between 1890 and 1896, the BSAC granted an area encompassing 16 million acres—about one sixth the area of Southern Rhodesia—to European immigrants. Before embarking on its controversial “fast-track land reform programme” (which culminated in the amendment of Zimbabwe’s Constitution in 2004), Zimbabwe had ratified the ICSID Convention and concluded thirty-one BITs, each requiring market value compensation for expropriation. [25] These incidents and others were instrumental in eliciting sympathy among Rhodesia's black population for nationalist movements such as the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), which sought to overthrow the Rhodesian government by force of arms. More than two decades after the end of apartheid in South Africa, the unequal distribution of land remains. [14] Rhodes hoped to discover gold and establish a mining colony, but the original intention had to be modified as neither the costs nor the returns on the overhead capital matched the original projections. /Nums [ 0 42 0 R ] [19] An interim solution was the granting of land to the settlers in the hopes that they would develop productive farms and generate enough income to justify the colony's continued administrative costs. Most of the country was c omm ercial or communal , known as the final authority on land allocation in the media, indeed. 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