White Rhodesian farmers’ productivity rested on state support, not just work ethic

Evidence

History makes clear that behind every Rhodesian farmer was an intricate network of state and corporate support packages that enabled Rhodesian farmers to be productive. The contradiction is that these financial packages “were rendered to white settlers whose conception of ‘home’ was always Britain” (Walter Rodney, 1972, p. 164). — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 57

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s grievance-circuit test: whether taking power back to these authors’ own displacement logic surfaces parallels with the Rhodesian state’s invisibility of black land claims. — connects to: Harrison’s memoir frames Rhodesian land acquisition as earned by white work ethic — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 48

Broader Connections

• Harrison’s memoir frames Rhodesian land acquisition as earned by white work ethic #contradicts (0.88) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 48