Women Law and Power: Perspectives From Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme by Makanatsa Makonese

Author:Makanatsa Makonese [Makonese, Makanatsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, World, Asian
ISBN: 9781779223975
Google: mAJHEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2021-06-25T04:52:56+00:00

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1 Mr Eddie Cross was the former MDC Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South and current (2020) member of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

2 The number is higher than what is normally reported, with some reports giving figures ranging from seven (Human Rights Watch) to twelve (see https://www.news24.com/news24/Africa/Zimbabwe/white-farmers-killers-should-not-be-prosecuted-mugabedeclares-20170815 (last accessed 26 February 2021). In his report, Mr Cross however provides a list of names, and the dates of the murders, pointing to the accuracy of the figures. The difference in numbers could also be attributed to the fact that the smaller numbers related to the earlier years of the programme, whilst Mr Cross’ count spans 14 years.

3 Available at: http://www.eddiecross.africanherd.com/170816.html (last accessed 26 February 2021)

4 11th Session, 1992.

5 CEDAW Committee General Recommendation Number 19, on Violence Against Women, Para 11).

6 All of them are either well-known female leaders or women’s rights, gender and human rights activists and defenders in the country.

7 ‘Sexual Abuse: The Untold Story of the Liberation War’ (The Independent, Harare, 26 August 2016) available at: https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2016/08/26/sexual-abuse-untold-story-liberation-war/ (last accessed 16 May 2020)

8 Ibid

9 Civilian women who remained behind serviced the freedom fighters with food, clothes, and other necessities also sacrificed their children who went to join the struggle.

10 IGI Global defines the term jambanja as ‘A Shona neologism that refers to the forced takeover of white commercial farms by indigenous blacks under the so-called fast-track land reform program (FTLRP)’.

11 About US$4,000 at the time

12 The statistics would have been more useful with a further disaggregation of these mixed beneficiaries.

13 These statistics must be read sceptically considering that they were presented by ZANU-PF, a party that rode on the ‘successes’ of the land reform programme as an election rallying point. The point to be stressed from the statistics is the skewed access levels for women when compared with other social groups that are highlighted in the Table.

14 As detailed in Chapter 1.

15 These were Zimbabwe’s wars of liberation from colonial rule. The first Chimurenga was fought between 1896 and 1897, only a few years after colonial settlement. The Africans were defeated by the colonial settlers in this war. The Second Chimurenga, which led to the independence of the country from colonial rule in 1980, was fought between 1966 and 1979.

16 Mr FZ died on 18 October 2016.

17 Interview with Mr FZ in Masvingo on 10 February 2012.

18 Government created the Committees of Seven and even Village Heads on the farms.

19 During interviews with the settlers and MR OC on 22 April 2011.

20 The Ranch is located in Mwenezi District, Masvingo Province. At close to 1 million hectares in size, it occupies nearly 1% of Zimbabwe’s land size is considered the largest privately owned conservancy in Africa (See ‘Nuanetsi: A case of wasted investment, stolen livelihoods’, available at: https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/nuanetsia-case-of-wasted-investment-stolen-livelihoods/)

21 The Ngundu-Chiredzi Road is a national highway that links the country’s sugar producing district of Chiredzi with the rest of the country and in particular with Masvingo, Harare, Bulawayo and the Beitbridge border with South Africa.

22 The

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