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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: "We are the best poor farmers": Purchase area farmers and economic differentiation in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1925-1980 Abstract: This study examines the historical role of purchase area farmers in Southern Rhodesia, and argues that, although only a small proportion of the population, these farmers had a direct impact on class formation among Africans. Created as a result of the 1930 Land Apportionment Act, the purchase areas were intended to regulate rural class formation by settling on individual farms those Africans who ploughed too much land in the "communal" reserves. However, the purchase areas attracted elite urban workers and mission-based Africans who longed to buy property on a freehold basis. Within a few years, these farm-owners distinguished themselves from other rural Africans by forming a union for their interests and by demanding, and receiving, special treatment from government. By the third decade of development purchase area farmers thought of themselves as rural landowners first and foremost, shedding much of the urban bias which had defined the early period of settlement. They became, in effect, a rural middle-class. |
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