2019 Index, Volume 46
Volume 46 Number 159 March 2019
Special Issue: Agrarian change in Zimbabwe: where now? The fast-track land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe – a reflection on current and future agrarian scenarios
Issue Editors: Grasian Mkodzongi and Peter Lawrence
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Sam Moyo, who devoted his life to supporting the struggles of the peasantry in the global South and made major contributions to the analysis of the dynamics of the FTLRP
CONTENTS
Editorial
1 The fast-track land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe
Grasian Mkodzongi and Peter Lawrence
Articles
14 The changing agrarian economy in Zimbabwe, 15 years after the Fast Track Land Reform Programme
Toendepi Shonhe
33 Family farms and the markets: examining the level of market-oriented production 15 years after the Zimbabwe Fast Track Land Reform Programme
Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu
55 The complexity of farmworkers’ livelihoods in Zimbabwe after the Fast Track Land Reform: experiences from a farm in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe and Takunda Chabata
71 The negotiability of state legal and bureaucratic authority during land occupations in Zimbabwe
Arnold Chamunogwa
86 Contested histories and contested land claims: traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
Joseph Mujere and Innocent Dande
101 The fragility of empowerment: changing gender relations in a Zimbabwean resettlement area
Lincoln Addison
117 Young people and land in Zimbabwe: livelihood challenges after land reform
Ian Scoones, Blasio Mavedzenge and Felix Murimbarimba
Debate
135 The wretched of the earth and strategy: Fanon’s ‘Leninist’ moment?
Chris James Newlove
Briefing
143 Presidential transitions and generational change in Southern African liberation movements
Roger Southall
157 The role and influence of the IMF on economic policy in South Africa’s transition to democracy: the 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility revisited Vishnu Padayachee and Ben Fine
Book review
168 Leo Zeilig, An ounce of practice Reviewed by Colin Stoneman
Volume 46 Number 160 June 2019
Editorial
171 Not quite post-political
Elisa Greco
Editorial Notice
181 Ruth First Prize
Articles
183 The 1968 years: revolutionary politics in Senegal
Pascal Bianchini
203 Trade union mobilisation and democratic institutionalisation in the Republic of Niger
Sebastian Elischer
222 Black economic empowerment policy and state–business relations in South Africa: the case of mining
Andrew Bowman
245 Resistance and repression in Zimbabwe: a case study of Zimplats mine workers
Paddington Mutekwe
260 Soldiers in business: the pitfalls of METEC’s projects in the context of Ethiopia’s civil–military relations
Tefera Negash Gebregziabher
278 Borders and boundaries in the state-making of Eritrea: revisiting the importance of territorial integrity in the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia
Tanja R. Müller
Debate
293 Placing African labour in global capitalism: the politics of irregular work
Nick Bernards
Briefing
303 Whose Africa is rising?
Moses Khisa
316 The transformation of African–Russian economic relations in the multipolar world-system
Tamás Gerőcs
335 Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea: rethinking the regional trans- border cooperation approach
Raymond Adibe, Chikodiri Nwangwu, Gerald E. Ezirim and Nnamdi Egonu
346 Rolling back the right to strike: amendments to South Africa’s Labour Relations Act and their implications for working-class struggle
Carin Runciman
Volume 46 Number 161 September 2019
Special Issue: Economic fraud in neoliberal Africa: power, accumulation and class formation
Issue Editor: Jörg Wiegratz
Editorial
357 ‘They’re all in it together’: the social production of fraud in capitalist Africa
Jörg Wiegratz
Articles
369 Cartels as ‘fraud’? Insights from collusion in southern and East Africa in the fertiliser and cement industries
Thando Vilakazi and Simon Roberts
387 The rise of microcredit ‘control fraud’ in post-apartheid South Africa: from state-enforced to market-driven exploitation of the black community
Milford Bateman
415 Black economic empowerment policy in Durban, eThekwini, South Africa: economic justice, economic fraud and ‘leaving money on the table’
Sarah Bracking
442 Fake drugs: health, wealth and regulation in Nigeria
Gernot Klantschnig and Chieh Huang
459 The political economy of intellectual property rights: the paradox of Article 27 exemplified in Ghana
Christiaan De Beukelaer and Martin Fredriksson
Briefings
480 Is fin-tech the new panacea for poverty alleviation and local development? Contesting Suri and Jack’s M-Pesa findings published in Science
Milford Bateman, Maren Duvendack and Nicholas Loubere
496 Anti-fraud measures in Southern Africa
Nataliya Mykhalchenko and Jörg Wiegratz
515 Visions of stagnation and maldistribution: monopoly capital, ‘white monopoly capital’ and new challenges to the South African Left
Adam Aboobaker
Book review
524 David Whyte and Jörg Wiegratz, Neoliberalism and the moral economy of fraud Reviewed by Jan Beek
Retraction
528 Statement of retraction: The role of multinational oil corporations (MNOCs) in Nigeria: more exploitation equals less development of oil-rich Niger Delta region
Volume 46 Number 162 December 2019
Issue Editors: Ray Bush and Elisa Greco
Editorial
529 Egypt under military rule
Ray Bush and Elisa Greco
Forum: Land, politics and dynamics of agrarian change and resistance in North Africa Forum Editorial
535 Land, politics and dynamics of agrarian change and resistance in North Africa
Mathilde Fautras and Giulio Iocco
549 Grabbing from below: a study of land reclamation in Egypt
Saker El Nour
567 The social life of wheat and grapes: domestic land-grabbing as accumulation by dispossession in rural Egypt
Yasmine Moataz Ahmed
582 Peasants, dispossession and resistance in Egypt: an analysis of protest movements and organisations before and after the 2011 uprising
Francesco de Lellis
Articles
599 Gulf capital and Egypt’s corporate food system: a region in the third food regime
Christian Henderson
615 Land deals, and how not all states react the same: Zambia and the Chinese request
Marie Widengård
Debate Special Issue
632 CONNECTIONS 3: ROAPE Workshop in Johannesburg, 26–27 November 2018
Peter Dwyer, Fatou Diouf, Grasian Mkodzongi, Beesan Kasaab, Didier Kiendrebeogo, Mohamed Traore, Naome Chakanya and Njuki Githethwa
Briefings
665 Rwanda poverty debate: summarising the debate and estimating consistent historical trends
Maurice Okito
673 The impact of Brexit on francophone Africa
Dirk Kohnert
Volume index
Author index, Volume 46, 2019
| Aboobaker, Adam, | 515 | Huang, Chieh, | 442 |
| Addison, Lincoln, | 101 | Iocco, Giulio, | 535 |
| Adibe, Raymond, | 336 | Kasaab, Beesan, | 632 |
| Ahmed, Yasmine Moataz, | 567 | Khisa, Moses, | 304 |
| Bateman, Milford, | 387, 480 | Kiendrebeogo, Didier, | 632 |
| Beek, Jan, | 524 | Klantschnig, Gernot, | 442 |
| Bernards, Nick, | 294 | Kohnert, Dirk, | 673 |
| Bianchini, Pascal, | 184 | Lawrence, Peter, | 1 |
| Bowman, Andrew, | 223 | Loubere, Nicholas, | 480 |
| Bracking, Sarah, | 415 | Müller, Tanja R., | 279 |
| Bush, Ray, | 529 | Mavedzenge, Blasio, | 117 |
| Chabata, Takunda, | 55 | Mkodzongi, Grasian, | 1, 632 |
| Chakanya, Naome, | 632 | Muchetu, Rangarirai Gavin, | 33 |
| Chamunogwa, Arnold, | 71 | Mujere, Joseph, | 86 |
| Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai, | 55 | Murimbarimba, Felix, | 117 |
| Dande, Innocent, | 86 | Mutekwe, Paddington, | 246 |
| De Beukelaer, Christiaan, | 459 | Mykhalchenko, Nataliya, | 496 |
| de Lellis, Francesco, | 582 | Newlove, Chris James, | 135 |
| Diouf, Fatou, | 632 | Nour, Saker El, | 549 |
| Duvendack, Maren, | 480 | Nwangwu, Chikodiri, | 336 |
| Dwyer, Peter, | 632 | Okito, Maurice, | 665 |
| Egonu, Nnamdi, | 336 | Padayachee, Vishnu, | 157 |
| Elischer, Sebastian, | 204 | Roberts, Simon, | 369 |
| Ezirim, Gerald E., | 336 | Runciman, Carin, | 347 |
| Fautras, Mathilde, | 535 | Scoones, Ian, | 117 |
| Fine, Ben, | 157 | Shonhe, Toendepi, | 14 |
| Fredriksson, Martin, | 459 | Southall, Roger, | 143 |
| Gebregziabher, Tefera Negash, | 261 | Stoneman, Colin, | 168 |
| Gerőcs, Tamás, | 317 | Traore, Mohamed, | 632 |
| Githethwa, Njuki, | 632 | Vilakazi, Thando, | 369 |
| Greco, Elisa, | 171, 529 | Widengård, Marie, | 615 |
| Henderson, Christian, | 599 | Wiegratz, Jörg, | 357, 496 |