Ranching & Enterprise in Eastern Botswana A Case Study of Black & WhiteFarmers

by Mazonde, Isaac Ncube

• ISBN13: 9780748604678
• ISBN10: 0748604677
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-02-28
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

While Botswana's economic development has been extraordinary, little is known about how different social groups have adapted to the new economic opportunitites, This conmprehensive account studies a key group of the new entrepreneurs - the ranchers. It describes their changing lifestyles, their construction of personal and social space, and the way they have adapted to state-initiated political and economic change, showing through a sseries of case studies how ranching has grown from being the preserve of white settlers to include Botswana and other African farmers as well. The relationship between ranching and communal land tenure, and the effect of Botswana's Tribal Land Grazing Policy are analysed in detail, whle the careers of non-elites, the practice of bordermanship, labour relations and the management of multiple enterprises and risks are also covered.

Author Biography

Isaac Ncube Mazonde is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Botswana.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Objective and scope of the study	p. 1
The need for research on ranching	p. 4
History of settlement and ranching in the Tuli Block	p. 8
The Tuli Block compared with other European settlement areas	p. 16
Ranching and class formation in poet-colonial Botswana	p. 16
Profiles of settler entrepreneurs	p. 23
Vorster, the paternalist entrepreneur	p. 23
The Clark family firm: from speculator to technocrat	p. 34
Brief profiles	p. 47
Mediation of settler entrepreneurs	p. 54
Bordermanship	p. 55
The state and settler mediation	p. 57
Contrast in the processes of extracting economic surplus between the alternative settler firms	p. 63
Dynamics of labour in settler firms	p. 67
Profiles of local entrepreneurs	p. 81
Profiles of local entrepreneurs	p. 87
Analysis of district elites	p. 109
Pule - the executive state elite	p. 119
Differentiating mechanisms between national and district elites	p. 124
Pitso - the resident non-elite local farmer	p. 128
Elites vis-a-vis non-elites	p. 132
Absenteeism vis-a-vis residence	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 137
Appendix	p. 144
Bibliography	p. 146
Index	p. 154
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