Inequality, leadership, and the crisis in Zimbabwe

International Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 209-226

  Dashwood, Hevina S ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 26844505757     PISSN: 00207020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002070200205700204     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Hevina S. Dashwood and Cranford Pratt, 'Leadership, participation and conflict management: Zimbabwe and Tanzania,' in Robert O. Matthews and Taisier Ali, Civil Wars in Africa (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 1999), 224-54.
2. The loss of the ruling elite's earlier commitment to the welfare of the poor majority was a further factor. See, Dashwood, Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transformation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2000).
3. Dashwood and Pratt, 'Leadership, participation and conflict management,' 245-6.
4. For an example of an analysis that reduces everything to Mugabe's leadership, see Robert Rotberg, 'Africa's mess, Mugabe's mayhem,' Foreign Affairs 79(September/October 2000), 47-61.
5. See also Martin Meredith, Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (New York: Public Affairs 2002).
6. For more details, see Dashwood, 'Social welfarism, poverty alleviation and political stability in Zimbabwe,' Canadian Journal of Development Studies 20(no 3, 1999), 567-92.
7. For an excellent account of these diverse pressures, see B. Ikubolajeh Logan and Daniel Tevera, 'Neoliberalism, regime survival, and the environment: economic reform and agricultural transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s,' Canadian Journal of African Studies 35(no 1, 2001), 99-138.
8. This section draws on Dashwood, 'Zimbabwe and sustainable peacebuilding,' in Robert O. Matthews and Taisier Ali, eds, Peacebuilding in Africa (forthcoming; Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
9. World Bank, Performance Audit Report: Zimbabwe - Structural Adjustment Program (Washington DC: World Bank, 30 June 1995), 33.
10. Sam Moyo, 'The political economy of land acquisition and redistribution in Zimbabwe, 1990-1999,' Journal of Southern African Studies 26(March 2000), 5-28
11. World Bank, Zimbabwe Agricultural Sector Memorandum, Southern Africa Department, Agricultural Operations Division, Report No 9429, (Washington DC: World Bank 1991).
12. United Kingdom, Department of International Development, Land Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Background Briefing (2000).
13. Government of Zimbabwe, Land Reform and Resettlement Programme: Phase II (Harare: September 1998).
14. Communiqué, issued by the government of Zimbabwe and donors attending the Donors Conference on Land Reform, Harare, September 1998.
15. Ibid.
16. Government of Zimbabwe, Inception Phase Framework Plan: 1999-2000 (Harare: March 1999).
17. Confidential interview with representative of the European Union to Zimbabwe, Harare, August 2000.
18. Interview with Kathryn Dunlop, Canadian high commissioner to Zimbabwe, Harare, August 2000.
19. Moyo, 'The political economy of land acquisition.'
20. Claims that the first phase of land reform was unsuccessful depend, in part, on the criteria used to define 'success.' See Bill H. Kinsey, 'Land reform, growth and equity: emerging evidence from Zimbabwe's resettlement programme,' Journal of Southern African Studies 25(June 1999), 173-96.
21. For a classic elaboration of the importance of attaching equal weight to both subsistence rights and the right to physical security, see Henry Shue, Basic Rights, Subsistence, Affluence and US Foreign Policy (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1981).
22. United Nations, Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), 'WFP emergency operation delayed' (South Africa: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 3 January 2002).
23. 'Zimbabwe crisis splits South Africa's ruling ANC,' Financial Gazette (Harare), 25 May 2000.
24. 'Mugabe says war vets to be removed from farms,' Financial Gazette (Harare), ibid, 3 August 2000.
25. 'Mugabe misleads Mbeki,' Zimbabwe Independent (Harare), 4 August 2000.
26. 'South Africa's anxious eyes on Zimbabwe,' Economist, 15 April 2000, 39.
27. Dumisani Muleya, 'Mugabe tones down rhetoric,' Zimbabwe Independent, 15 June 2001.
28. Commonwealth, Text of the Abuja Agreement on Zimbabwe (Abuja: 6 September 2001).
29. Munyaradzi Huni, 'Abuja: UK drags feet,' Sunday Mail (Harare), 14 October 2001.
30. Sandra Nyaira, 'Mbeki calls for more pressure on Mugabe,' Herald (Harare), 1 December 2001.
31. Itaya Musengeyi, 'African leaders attack Blair over Zimbabwe,' Herald, 4 March 2002.
32. Staff Reporter, 'Mbeki warns Mugabe,' Daily News (Harare), 29 November 2001.