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Title

Ranching and enterprise in eastern Botswana : a case study of black and white farmers / Isaac Ncube Mazonde.

Author

Mazonde, Isaac Ncube.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xi, 161 pages : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• Botswana's economic development has been extraordinary in Third World terms, yet little is known about how different social groups have adapted to the new economic opportunities.
• This comprehensive account studies a key group of the new entrepreneurs: the ranchers. It describes their changing life styles, their construction of personal and social space, and the way they have adapted to state-initiated political and economic change, showing through a series of case studies how ranching has grown from being the preserve of white settlers to include Botswana and other African farmers as well.
• The relationship between ranching and communal land tenure, and the effect of Botswana's Tribal Land Grazing Policy are analysed in detail, while the careers of non-elites, the practice of bordermanship, labour relations and the management of multiple enterprises and risks are also covered. This book will appeal to Africanists, development planners, historians and anthropologists.

Series Statement

International African library ; 12

Uniform Title

International African library ; 12.

Subject

• Ranches > Economic aspects > Botswana
• Ranchers > Botswana > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-153) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction. Objective and scope of the study. The need for research on ranching. History of settlement and ranching in the Tuli Block. The Tuli Block compared with other European settlement areas. Ranching and class formation in poet-colonial Botswana -- Ch. 2. Profiles of settler entrepreneurs. Vorster, the paternalist entrepreneur. The Clark family firm: from speculator to technocrat. Brief profiles -- Ch. 3. Mediation of settler entrepreneurs. Bordermanship. The state and settler mediation. Contrast in the processes of extracting economic surplus between the alternative settler firms. Dynamics of labour in settler firms -- Ch. 4. Profiles of local entrepreneurs. Profiles of local entrepreneurs. Analysis of district elites. Pule - the executive state elite. Differentiating mechanisms between national and district elites. Pitso - the resident non-elite local farmer. Elites vis-a-vis non-elites. Absenteeism vis-a-vis residence -- Ch. 5. Conclusion.

ISBN

0748604677

OCLC

ocm30697513

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