The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) invites you to a webinar titled: “Dispossession and repossession of farmland post-fast track land reform in Zimbabwe”.
Speakers include:
The preoccupation with the radical repossession of largely white-owned commercial farms – since 2000 – for reallocation to millions of black families, although very important, has occluded attention to contradictory but silent processes of state-led dispossession of black communities living on customary land and a new wave of repossession of farmland from black owners. This generates new questions about the evolving nature of the post-colonial Zimbabwean state & interrelated party practices and the intertwined land questions of dispossession & elite concentration.
The webinar will therefore engage with the following questions:
13:00 South African Standard Time (SAST)/Central African Time (CAT)
12:00 West African Time (WAT)
11:00 Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) (Ghana)
14:00 East African Time (EAT) (Tanzania)
The webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform: please join meeting here.
Speakers include:
- Siphosami Malunga – Director, The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)
- Professor Jonathan Moyo – Zimbabwe’s former Minister of Higher & Tertiary Education, Science & Technology Development
- Cynthia Gwenzi – Gender Wellness and Advocacy Officer: Platform for Youth and Community Development (PYCD), Chisumbanje Community, Chipinge
- Khanya Noko – Vice Board Chairperson, Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Development (MACRA), Chilonga Community, Chiredzi
- Flora Nekatambe – Member of the Royal Family, Dinde Community, Hwange
The preoccupation with the radical repossession of largely white-owned commercial farms – since 2000 – for reallocation to millions of black families, although very important, has occluded attention to contradictory but silent processes of state-led dispossession of black communities living on customary land and a new wave of repossession of farmland from black owners. This generates new questions about the evolving nature of the post-colonial Zimbabwean state & interrelated party practices and the intertwined land questions of dispossession & elite concentration.
The webinar will therefore engage with the following questions:
- Who is being dispossessed, how and why?
- Who is the state targeting for repossession, how and why?
- What is the nature of the state?
- What needs to be done?
13:00 South African Standard Time (SAST)/Central African Time (CAT)
12:00 West African Time (WAT)
11:00 Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) (Ghana)
14:00 East African Time (EAT) (Tanzania)
The webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform: please join meeting here.
