« Settler colonial greater Rhodesia: Charlton Cussans, ‘”Our Greater Rhodesia”: Settler Aspirations, Indigenous Fears, and Whitehall Concerns Regarding Amalgamation, 1919-1945’, South African Historical Journal, 2026

Settler colonial Zimbabwe: Robert Zeinstra, ‘Where have the Chapungu gone?What connects Zimbabwe’s chimurenga spirit, the disappearing bateleur eagle, and the stubborn afterlife of colonial capital?’ Africa is a Country, 2026

20Feb26

Excerpt: “Fast Track Land Reform” was rhetorically aimed at “white farmers,” not at colonial-era investor-owned land which posed a much larger threat to Zimbabwe’s future than the remnant white farmers. Gains were made: A Union Carbide–owned ranch near Zvishavane was resettled, one of two major parcels owned by De Beers was partially resettled, and jambanja activists resettled a small section of Austrian-Swiss-German-owned Border Timbers land in Chimanimani. In all three examples, the government turned their back on resettled families, which, coupled with the dearth of international aid in resettlement areas, made life in these places increasingly precarious. Small and abandoned mines made their way into the hands of elite and middle-class Zimbabweans, but in the same era, international capital reinvested in Zimbabwe’s colonial-era mines along the Great Dyke.


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