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Global Incorporation, Ideology, and Public Policy in Zimbabwe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Wm. Cyrus Reed
Wm. Cyrus Reed*
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Simmons College (Iowa)
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Six years after independence, Zimbabwe is viewed by its admirers as having adopted a pragmatic approach to a broad range of socialist oriented policies. A massive expansion and re-direction of services in the areas of education, health, and agricultural extension services, in addition to the creation of one of the world’s largest resettlement programs, are often cited as evidence of how the government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe is working for socialist transformation in Zimbabwe. In addition, under Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) government, the Zimbabwean economy has been able to maintain a real expansion in production averaging near 4.6% per annum-perhaps the highest rate in Africa--while the government has reversed a tremendous balance of payments deficit.

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African Issues , Volume 15 , 1987 , pp. 49 - 59
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1987 

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Notes

1. Standard Chartered Bank Zimbabwe. Economie Bulletin. October 1985.

2. Astrow, Andre. Zimbabwe: A Revolution That Lost its Way?. London: Zed Press, 1983.Google Scholar

3. Similar patterns have been observed in Zaire by Crawford Young in his The Politics of the Congo. Princeton University Press, 1965. see p. 230.

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10. Much of the following discussion of the relations between ZANU and both FRELIMO and the People’s Republic of China is based upon chapters 1-6 in David Martin and Phyllis Johnson, The Struggle for Zimbabwe. London: Faber and Faber,1981. (Also published Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House; Johannesburg: Raven Press).

11. Martin and Johnson Ibid., p. 84. The total number is unclear. In 1969, eight Chinese instructors were reported at Itumbi camp, in Tanzania. In 1970, twenty Chinese instructors are reported to have been working at Mgagao camp. However, in 1971, Mgagao replaced Itumbi as ZANU’s principle training camp. The question remains whether the twenty at Mgagao included the eight at Itumbi, or were in addition to them.

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15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Martin and Johnson, op. cit., note 10, p. 84.

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23. Nyagumbo. op. cit., note 5, p. 214-216.

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26. “Salisbury Declaration, 11 December 1974.” Nyangoni and Nyandoro. op. cit., note 35, p. 296.

27. For a discussion of Sithole’s behavior while representing ZANU on the ANC, see Zimbabwe News. Volume 9, numbers 6 and 5, 1976.

28. Martin and Johnson, op. cit., note 32, pp. 21 1-212. See also Zimbabwe News, Ibid.

29. Mgagao Declaration in Ibid, quoted in Martin and Johnson, op.cit., note 10, p. 212.

30. Martin and Johnson, op. ciL, note 10, p. 262.

31. Zimbabwe News, volume 9, numbers 5 and 6, 1977.

32. “Defining the Line in our War of Liberation”, Mugabe and Central Committee Members Meet in Chimoio”, Ibid, pp. 10-14. Reprinted in Mugabe, R.G.. Our War of Liberation. Mambo Press, Gweru Zimbabwe, 1983.Google Scholar

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34. Tekere, Edgar. “The State of the Party”, Zimbabwe News, volume 9, numbers 5 and 6, 1977, p. 6.Google Scholar

35. Zimbabwe News, volume 10, number 2, 1978, pp. 5-10.

36. Mugabe, Robert. “The Perspective of our Revolution” in Zimbabwe News, volume 9, numbers 5 and 6, 1977, pp. 10–14.Google Scholar Also in Mugabe, op. cit., note 61, pp. 40-48.

37. Ibid.

38. Tekere, op. cit. note 63.

39. Mugabe, op. cit., note 65.

40. Zimbabwe News, volume 10, number 6, November-December 1978.

41. Martin and Johnson, op. cit., note 10, p. 217.

42. See Zimbabwe News, 1978 for chronicling of the travels by ZANU Executive Committee members.

43. Zimbabwe News,yobxm& 10, number 3, May—June, 1978, p. 15.

44. Zimbabwe News, volume 11, number 2, July—August 1979.

45. Zimbabwe News, volume 10, 1978.

46. For a fascinating account of the negotiation process and the position which Zanu and the Patriotic Front adopted, see the official documentation on record at the Zimbabwe National Archives, Harare, or Colin Legum. “Southern Africa: The Road To and From Lancaster House”, in Legum, C. (editor). Africa Contemporary Record, volume XII, 1979-80, Holmes and Meier, New York, 1981.Google Scholar

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48. See Esau M. Chiviya. Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Policy and Implementation. Doctoral Dissertation completed in the Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 1982.

49. Many of the most repugnant measures which had come to characterize the European administration in Zimbabwe were actually repealed by the Muzorewa regime.Hoewever, the structure of the internal settlement and the continuation of the war meant that effective removal of these measures did not occur.

50. Standard Chartered Bank, op. cit., note 1.