The Frelimo government in Mozambique pinned its hopes for rapid and widespread socialist modernisation of the country upon the agricultural sector. During the two decades since independence, the precise role which the government wished the agricultural sector to fulfil has changed, and the...

Many commentators on African agriculture believe soil fertility is declining to levels where food production can no longer be sustained, thus spelling disaster for the future. But how accurate are these doomsday pictures? This paper takes a more focused look at the issues of soil fertility...

The purpose of this article is to provide a persuasive account of Botswana's development performance from a historical materialist perspective. It commences by looking at commonly accepted indicators of Botswana's development record and the sources of its political stability, and explains why...

After defeating the incumbent United National Independence Party (UNIP) in November 1991 in the first multi-party general election in nearly a quarter century, the Movement for Multi-Party-Democracy (MMD) won a resounding victory in all provinces save one in local government elections a year...

This article discusses the main results of a comprehensive tracer survey of Form IV school-leavers from urban and rural secondary schools in Zimbabwe during the mid-to-late 1980s. The principle finding of the survey is that the incidence of wage employment in early 1991 when the survey was...