| Zimbabwe's Land Reform: The Myths and Reality of Myths and Realities |  Printable version
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Date: Thursday 23 June 2011
Time: 15.30-17.00
Place: Room 0A28, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52,
Leiden.
Speaker: Prosper Matondi, director Ruzivo Trust, Zimbabwe
Discussant:
Marleen Dekker
(ASC),
Manase Chiweshe (Rhodes University, Ruzivo Trust) and
Norman Moyo
(Ruzivo Trust)
You are kindly requested to register for this seminar.
The post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe has
been critically portrayed both in the (western) media and in academic
circles. At the end of 2010, Prof. Ian Scoones (IDS Sussex, UK) and some
of his Zimbabwean colleagues published Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and
Realities, a book claiming that much of this criticism does not reflect
the reality on the ground. The book itself has, however, also received a
certain amount of criticism. Discussions on land reform in Zimbabwe are
still highly political and loaded with emotion, and empirical evidence
is often being ignored. The book and the discussion it has generated in
Zimbabwe and Southern Africa will be discussed in this seminar. Marleen
Dekker (ASC) will present the myths and realities as they are covered in
Scoones’s book. Prosper Matondi, (Ruzivo Trust), Manase Chiweshe (Rhodes
University, Ruzivo Trust) and Norman Moyo (Ruzivo Trust) will share
their own research experiences with us and reflect on these myths and
realities by referring to the responses the book has received.
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