Ranching & Enterprise in Eastern Botswana : : A Case Study of Black & WhiteFarmers / / Isaac Ncube Mazonde.
While Botswana's economic development has been extraordinary, little is known about how different social groups have adapted to the new economic opportunities. This comprehensive account studies a key group of the new entrepreneurs - the ranchers. It describes their changing lifestyles, their c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International African Library : IAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- International African Library
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Objective and scope of the study
- The need for research on ranching
- History of settlement and ranching in the Tuli Block
- The Tuli Block compared with other European settlement areas
- Ranching and class formation in post -colonial Botswana
- Summary Overview
- Profiles of settler entrepreneurs
- Vorster, the paternalist entrepreneur
- Phase one
- Phase two
- The Clark family firm: from speculator to technocrat
- Phase one
- Phase two
- Brief profiles
- Benson - the insider entrepreneur
- Mulder- the industrial entrepreneur
- Mediation of settler entrepreneurs
- Bordermanship
- The state and settler mediation
- Dynamics of labour in settler firms
- Settler family labour
- Hired labour in a family firm
- Payment levels of hired workers in the familist firm by section
- Conclusion
- Profiles of local entrepreneurs
- Profiles of local entrepreneurs
- Tau- the upwardly mobile entrepreneur
- Molema- the 'big man' of the village
- Kgari - the traditional elite-cum-entrepreneur
- Analysis of district elites
- The traditional (chiefly) elite as an entrepreneur
- The upwardly mobile entrepreneur
- The village 'big man'
- Pule- the executive state elite
- Differentiating mechanisms between national and district elites
- Pitso- the resident non-elite local farmer
- Elites vis-a-vis non-elites
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index