Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond White-Settler Capitalism

Notes on Contributors

xiii Notes on Contributors Walter Chambati is a researcher at the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) in Harare and was Future Agriculture’s Consortium Research Fellow for 2011. He received a BSc. (Hons) in Agricultural Economics from the University of Zimbabwe and a Masters in Public and Development Management from the University of Witwatersrand. His research interests are in rural labour issues and agricultural development in Africa and he is studying for a doctorate at the School of Public and Development Management, University of Witwatersrand, focusing on agrarian labour changes after the land reform programme in Zimbabwe. Tendai Chari is a media analyst and a media studies lecturer in the Department of Communication, School of Human and Social Sciences, University of Venda, South Africa. His research interests are political communication, media ethics, media and development and media policy. Louis Masuko is a research associate at the African Institute for Agrarian Studies. He was a lecturer in economics and research with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Zimbabwe until 2011. He is editor of Economic Policy Reforms and Meso-Scale Rural Market Changes in Zimbabwe: The Case of Shamva (1998) and has published extensively on development issues in Zimbabwe. Sam Moyo is Executive Director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS), Harare and former President of the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA, 2008–11). He has taught at the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe and has served on the boards of various research institutes and non-governmental organizations, including ZERO. He is currently professor at Fort Hare University and Editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy (Sage India). He has published widely in academic journals and is the author and editor of several books, including: The land question in Zimbabwe (SAPES, 1995), Land reform under structural adjustment in Zimbabwe (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2000), Reclaiming the land (Zed Books, 2005), African Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond White-Settler Capitalism xiv land questions, agrarian transitions and the state (CODESRIA, 2008); Land and sustainable development in Africa (Zed Books, 2008), Reclaiming the nation (Pluto Press, 2011) and The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era (Pambazuka, 2011). Tendai Murisa recently completed his PhD at Rhodes University. He wrote the paper included in this volume when he was a fulltime research fellow at the African Institute for Agrarian Studies in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is now a programme specialist at the Dakar-based Trust Africa, responsible for the coordination of the Pan-African Agriculture Advocacy project. Ndabezinhle Nyoni is a research fellow at the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS). He received a BSc Agriculture (Hons) and an MPhil in Animal Science from the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are international politics and agricultural development. Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba is a researcher with the Centre for Applied SocialSciences(CASS)attheUniversityofZimbabwe.Heisaruraldevelopment expert and a veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation war. He has published several journal articles and two books: War Veterans in Zimbabwe’s Land Occupations: Complexities of a liberation movement in an African postcolonial settler society (2008) and WarVeterans in Zimbabwe’s Revolution: Challenging neo-colonialism & settler & international capital (2011). His research interest is to study the effect of African liberation movements on current societies. Paris Yeros is Adjunct Professor International Economics at the Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil’ and a research associate of AIAS. He is co-editor of Reclaiming the Land (2005) and Reclaiming the Na¬tion (2011). ...