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SUMMARY:Racial  Rhetoric  and  Fast  Track  Land  Reform  in Zimbabwe\, 20
 00 to 2001 - Josh Prichard (History Faculty\, Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the interactions between racial rhetoric a
 nd the land reform programme in Zimbabwe. It highlights two missing elemen
 ts of existing historiography on the subject: how Zimbabweans regard the m
 otivations behind the violent land reform programme that was launched in F
 ebruary 2000\, and the impact of racially charged rhetoric on attitudes to
  land reform in Zimbabwe. Utilising interviews conducted with a wide range
  of Zimbabweans\, this paper challenges the narrative provided in Zimbabwe
 an and international media that the land reform programme was inherently r
 acist. Instead\, it proposes that race was a tool used by Robert Mugabe an
 d his Zanu-PF party to disguise the true intentions of land reform. The ra
 pid rise of the Movement for Democratic Change as an opposition party and 
 the overwhelming support provided by black farm workers on white commercia
 l farms to the opposition are instead presented as alternative motivations
 . The impact of racial rhetoric is also challenged through the voices of t
 hose behind and affected by such statements. Race is shown to be a much mo
 re complicated and personal element of land reform than is typically belie
 ved.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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