Tracing Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint on Land and Agrarian Questions in the Global South
The land question has become more topical than ever before in the Southern African region. Zimbabwe provided the test case when, beginning 2000, majority landless Africans started a land revolution from below, which forced the government to ram through legislation to enable compulsory land acquisiti...
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| description | The land question has become more topical than ever before in the Southern African region. Zimbabwe provided the test case when, beginning 2000, majority landless Africans started a land revolution from below, which forced the government to ram through legislation to enable compulsory land acquisition without compensation. On 14 November 2018, the South African Parliament passed a land bill to amend section 25 of that country’s constitution to enable the government to expropriate land without compensation for resettlement purposes. The Namibian government too is seized with working out modalities to enable it to expeditiously redress historical land ownership imbalances. This chapter is a reflection on the relevance of Sam Moyo’s critical insights on the political economy of land and labor in the Global South. Although much of his academic work is grounded on the Zimbabwean postcolonial experience with land reform, it only does so in order to bring out the microcosmic nature of the case from which valuable lessons can be drawn for wider application in resolving similar land and agrarian questions in postcolonial contexts elsewhere. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-52602022-11-25T06:36:48Z Tracing Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint on Land and Agrarian Questions in the Global South Zvenyika Eckson Mugari Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Toyin Falola Media and Society Studies Department, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint Sam Moyo Land question Land ownership imbalances Southern African region Political economy of land The land question has become more topical than ever before in the Southern African region. Zimbabwe provided the test case when, beginning 2000, majority landless Africans started a land revolution from below, which forced the government to ram through legislation to enable compulsory land acquisition without compensation. On 14 November 2018, the South African Parliament passed a land bill to amend section 25 of that country’s constitution to enable the government to expropriate land without compensation for resettlement purposes. The Namibian government too is seized with working out modalities to enable it to expeditiously redress historical land ownership imbalances. This chapter is a reflection on the relevance of Sam Moyo’s critical insights on the political economy of land and labor in the Global South. Although much of his academic work is grounded on the Zimbabwean postcolonial experience with land reform, it only does so in order to bring out the microcosmic nature of the case from which valuable lessons can be drawn for wider application in resolving similar land and agrarian questions in postcolonial contexts elsewhere. 279 293 2022-11-25T06:36:48Z 2022-11-25T06:36:48Z 2020-06-24 book part https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5260 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38922-2_15 en Palgrave Handbooks in IPE The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy 978-3-030-38922-2 open Palgrave Macmillan, Cham |
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