Joseph Mujere
Biographic Data
| ID | 148404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Mujere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Mujere |
| SIGNATURE | MUJERE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0419-2236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Of Outcrops and Narrow Seams: Geology, Tribute Agreements and Cooperative Chromite Mining along Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, 1985–2022
This article argues that the development of cooperative chromite mining in postcolonial Zimbabwe was largely shaped by geological factors, particularly the geotechnical challenges of extracting the narrow (thin) and frequently faulted chromite seams in the northern section of the Great Dyke geological formation. It examines the geological knowledge and mining skills of miners in cooperatives. It also considers the roles of government departments,…
Agrarian transformation and artisanal and small-scale chrome mining on Zimbabwe's Great Dyke geological formation
Southern Rhodesia’s Adherence to the 1929 Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Italian and German Internees, 1939–1945
The article looks at the Southern Rhodesian government’s efforts to implement the 1929 Geneva Convention’s provisions in establishing and administering internment camps during Second World War, despite the fact that the convention did not apply to civilian internees. The article contends that, although the Southern Rhodesian government was committed to the Geneva Convention of 1929, which specified the guidelines and norms for the treatment of pr…
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts
‘Men of the Soil’: Basotho Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1950s
Between violence and negotiation: Gold-rushes, gang violence, and negotiated access in artisanal gold mining along Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
Renaming Enkeldoorn: Whiteness, place, and the politics of belonging in Southern Rhodesia
The case for oral histories of neoliberal Africa
There has been a dearth of oral histories of work and earning a living in Africa, especially during the neoliberal period from the 1980s. Compared to scholarship published more than half a century ago, there seems to be a decline of the use of oral histories to explore the history of the living under capitalism, despite the acceptance of oral histories as an important source and methodology for reconstructing experiences of people. At the same ti…
Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s
In recent decades, historians’ understanding of colonialism has been significantly enriched, going beyond the central concepts of resistance and negotiation. Several works have been produced on various aspects of African lives in colonial cities. Yet African organisational life and networks of solidarity in such ‘restrictive’ urban spaces have been largely overlooked. In this article, we examine African ‘informal’ leisure parties known as tea par…
Land, Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c. 1890
A new history of the Basotho migrants in Zimbabwe that illuminates identity politics, African agency and the complexities of social integration in the colonial period. Tracing the history of the Basotho, a small mainly Christianised community of evangelists working for the Dutch Reformed Church, this book examines the challenges faced by minority ethnic groups in colonial Zimbabwe and how they tried to strike a balance between particularism and i…
Land, Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c. 1890-1960s
Traditional leaders and the politics of labour recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry
Unemployment, service delivery and practices of waiting in South Africa’s informal settlements
Informal mining settlements in Rustenburg, South Africa, grew exponentially due to the removal of apartheid-era spatial controls in the late 1980s and the boom in platinum mining in the early 2000s. These informal settlements lack official recognition, and this generates collective uncertainty and engenders different forms of waiting. Residents wait for employment, services, and ultimately official recognition of their settlement and its integrat…
Contested histories and contested land claims: Traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
This article analyses conflicts among traditional authorities over ancestral lands, and boundaries during and in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). It argues that the FTLRP gave a fresh impetus to conflicts over land and boundaries among traditional authorities as they sought to recast their authority into areas from which they were displaced during the colonial period. It further argues that land claims in the …
The Politics of African Freehold Land Ownership in Early Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1930
Drawing on a range of archival sources, this article examines the experiences of Africans who purchased land under freehold tenure and the debates that this generated among white settlers in early colonial Zimbabwe. In doing so, the article addresses the question of peasant differentiation, rural authority and colonial anxieties over power and African economic competition and the policing of white settlers’ sexual behaviours. By focusing on Afric…
‘Those who are not known, should be known by the country’: Patriotic history and the politics of recognition in southern Zimbabwe
Since the early 2000s, scholars have criticised how Zimbabwe's ruling party has 'distorted' history to suit its political purposes through its rhetoric of 'patriotic history'. There remains a lacuna of studies focusing on what purchase 'patriotic history' has had in specific contexts, and what alternative commemorations it has sometimes afforded. Examining efforts in early 2010s by war veterans, relatives and survivors to monumentalise two wartim…
Land, Gender and Inheritance Disputes Among the Basotho in the Dewure Purchase Areas, Colonial Zimbabwe
This article explores Basotho struggles for land and belonging in colonial Zimbabwe from the 1930s to the 1950s. It argues that as non-indigenous Africans in colonial Zimbabwe with no claim to land in reserves the Basotho saw ownership of freehold land as a key strategy in their construction of a sense of belonging. The centrality of land among the Basotho had a great impact on inheritance disputes within the members of the community. Drawing on …
Bulawayo Burning: The social history of a Southern African city 1893-1960
This is an illuminating study of the social history of Bulawayo in the period between 1893 and 1960. The book is divided into historical epochs marked by the ‘burning’ of Bulawayo, metaphorically and literally. It begins with the burning of Bulawayo in 1893 on the orders of King Lobengula, and ends with the burning of shops during the Zhii riots of 1960. It thus presents the city of Bulawayo as a site of struggle between many sections of society …
Evangelists, Migrants and Progressive Farmers: Basotho as 'Progressive Africans' in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1927
African migrants played a crucial role in the early history of Southern Rhodesia. A number of them were already literate and had converted to Christianity before they came to Southern Rhodesia. For example, a number of the members of the Basotho1 1 The term Basotho is here used more loosely to refer to a community of immigrants from South Africa who were predominantly of Sotho (northern Sotho) origin. They were generally referred to as Basotho, a…
Land, graves and belonging: Land reform and the politics of belonging in newly resettled farms in Gutu, 2000-2009
The return to ancestral lands has been at the centre of the land reform rhetoric in Zimbabwe. This argument is premised on the fact that many communities were displaced from their ancestral lands during the colonial period hence they saw the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000 as an opportunity for them to 'return' to their old homes. This article explores and analyses the issues surrounding land disputes in one village model A1 afte…
Land and the politics of belonging in Africa
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Land, graves and belonging: Land reform and the politics of belonging in newly resettled farms in Gutu, 2000-2009
The return to ancestral lands has been at the centre of the land reform rhetoric in Zimbabwe. This argument is premised on the fact that many communities were displaced from their ancestral lands during the colonial period hence they saw the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000 as an opportunity for them to 'return' to their old homes. This article explores and analyses the issues surrounding land disputes in one village model A1 afte…
Unemployment, service delivery and practices of waiting in South Africa’s informal settlements
Informal mining settlements in Rustenburg, South Africa, grew exponentially due to the removal of apartheid-era spatial controls in the late 1980s and the boom in platinum mining in the early 2000s. These informal settlements lack official recognition, and this generates collective uncertainty and engenders different forms of waiting. Residents wait for employment, services, and ultimately official recognition of their settlement and its integrat…
Traditional leaders and the politics of labour recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry
Land and the politics of belonging in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contested histories and contested land claims: Traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
This article analyses conflicts among traditional authorities over ancestral lands, and boundaries during and in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). It argues that the FTLRP gave a fresh impetus to conflicts over land and boundaries among traditional authorities as they sought to recast their authority into areas from which they were displaced during the colonial period. It further argues that land claims in the …
Between violence and negotiation: Gold-rushes, gang violence, and negotiated access in artisanal gold mining along Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
Land, Gender and Inheritance Disputes Among the Basotho in the Dewure Purchase Areas, Colonial Zimbabwe
This article explores Basotho struggles for land and belonging in colonial Zimbabwe from the 1930s to the 1950s. It argues that as non-indigenous Africans in colonial Zimbabwe with no claim to land in reserves the Basotho saw ownership of freehold land as a key strategy in their construction of a sense of belonging. The centrality of land among the Basotho had a great impact on inheritance disputes within the members of the community. Drawing on …
Evangelists, Migrants and Progressive Farmers: Basotho as 'Progressive Africans' in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1927
African migrants played a crucial role in the early history of Southern Rhodesia. A number of them were already literate and had converted to Christianity before they came to Southern Rhodesia. For example, a number of the members of the Basotho1 1 The term Basotho is here used more loosely to refer to a community of immigrants from South Africa who were predominantly of Sotho (northern Sotho) origin. They were generally referred to as Basotho, a…
Renaming Enkeldoorn: Whiteness, place, and the politics of belonging in Southern Rhodesia
The case for oral histories of neoliberal Africa
There has been a dearth of oral histories of work and earning a living in Africa, especially during the neoliberal period from the 1980s. Compared to scholarship published more than half a century ago, there seems to be a decline of the use of oral histories to explore the history of the living under capitalism, despite the acceptance of oral histories as an important source and methodology for reconstructing experiences of people. At the same ti…
Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s
In recent decades, historians’ understanding of colonialism has been significantly enriched, going beyond the central concepts of resistance and negotiation. Several works have been produced on various aspects of African lives in colonial cities. Yet African organisational life and networks of solidarity in such ‘restrictive’ urban spaces have been largely overlooked. In this article, we examine African ‘informal’ leisure parties known as tea par…
Land and the politics of belonging in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Land, graves and belonging: Land reform and the politics of belonging in newly resettled farms in Gutu, 2000-2009
The return to ancestral lands has been at the centre of the land reform rhetoric in Zimbabwe. This argument is premised on the fact that many communities were displaced from their ancestral lands during the colonial period hence they saw the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000 as an opportunity for them to 'return' to their old homes. This article explores and analyses the issues surrounding land disputes in one village model A1 afte…
Land, Gender and Inheritance Disputes Among the Basotho in the Dewure Purchase Areas, Colonial Zimbabwe
This article explores Basotho struggles for land and belonging in colonial Zimbabwe from the 1930s to the 1950s. It argues that as non-indigenous Africans in colonial Zimbabwe with no claim to land in reserves the Basotho saw ownership of freehold land as a key strategy in their construction of a sense of belonging. The centrality of land among the Basotho had a great impact on inheritance disputes within the members of the community. Drawing on …
Bulawayo Burning: The social history of a Southern African city 1893-1960
This is an illuminating study of the social history of Bulawayo in the period between 1893 and 1960. The book is divided into historical epochs marked by the ‘burning’ of Bulawayo, metaphorically and literally. It begins with the burning of Bulawayo in 1893 on the orders of King Lobengula, and ends with the burning of shops during the Zhii riots of 1960. It thus presents the city of Bulawayo as a site of struggle between many sections of society …
Evangelists, Migrants and Progressive Farmers: Basotho as 'Progressive Africans' in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1927
African migrants played a crucial role in the early history of Southern Rhodesia. A number of them were already literate and had converted to Christianity before they came to Southern Rhodesia. For example, a number of the members of the Basotho1 1 The term Basotho is here used more loosely to refer to a community of immigrants from South Africa who were predominantly of Sotho (northern Sotho) origin. They were generally referred to as Basotho, a…
‘Those who are not known, should be known by the country’: Patriotic history and the politics of recognition in southern Zimbabwe
Since the early 2000s, scholars have criticised how Zimbabwe's ruling party has 'distorted' history to suit its political purposes through its rhetoric of 'patriotic history'. There remains a lacuna of studies focusing on what purchase 'patriotic history' has had in specific contexts, and what alternative commemorations it has sometimes afforded. Examining efforts in early 2010s by war veterans, relatives and survivors to monumentalise two wartim…
Land, Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c. 1890
A new history of the Basotho migrants in Zimbabwe that illuminates identity politics, African agency and the complexities of social integration in the colonial period. Tracing the history of the Basotho, a small mainly Christianised community of evangelists working for the Dutch Reformed Church, this book examines the challenges faced by minority ethnic groups in colonial Zimbabwe and how they tried to strike a balance between particularism and i…
Land, Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c. 1890-1960s
Traditional leaders and the politics of labour recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry
Unemployment, service delivery and practices of waiting in South Africa’s informal settlements
Informal mining settlements in Rustenburg, South Africa, grew exponentially due to the removal of apartheid-era spatial controls in the late 1980s and the boom in platinum mining in the early 2000s. These informal settlements lack official recognition, and this generates collective uncertainty and engenders different forms of waiting. Residents wait for employment, services, and ultimately official recognition of their settlement and its integrat…
Contested histories and contested land claims: Traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
This article analyses conflicts among traditional authorities over ancestral lands, and boundaries during and in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). It argues that the FTLRP gave a fresh impetus to conflicts over land and boundaries among traditional authorities as they sought to recast their authority into areas from which they were displaced during the colonial period. It further argues that land claims in the …
The Politics of African Freehold Land Ownership in Early Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1930
Drawing on a range of archival sources, this article examines the experiences of Africans who purchased land under freehold tenure and the debates that this generated among white settlers in early colonial Zimbabwe. In doing so, the article addresses the question of peasant differentiation, rural authority and colonial anxieties over power and African economic competition and the policing of white settlers’ sexual behaviours. By focusing on Afric…
Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s
In recent decades, historians’ understanding of colonialism has been significantly enriched, going beyond the central concepts of resistance and negotiation. Several works have been produced on various aspects of African lives in colonial cities. Yet African organisational life and networks of solidarity in such ‘restrictive’ urban spaces have been largely overlooked. In this article, we examine African ‘informal’ leisure parties known as tea par…
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts
‘Men of the Soil’: Basotho Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1950s
Between violence and negotiation: Gold-rushes, gang violence, and negotiated access in artisanal gold mining along Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
Renaming Enkeldoorn: Whiteness, place, and the politics of belonging in Southern Rhodesia
The case for oral histories of neoliberal Africa
There has been a dearth of oral histories of work and earning a living in Africa, especially during the neoliberal period from the 1980s. Compared to scholarship published more than half a century ago, there seems to be a decline of the use of oral histories to explore the history of the living under capitalism, despite the acceptance of oral histories as an important source and methodology for reconstructing experiences of people. At the same ti…
Southern Rhodesia’s Adherence to the 1929 Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Italian and German Internees, 1939–1945
The article looks at the Southern Rhodesian government’s efforts to implement the 1929 Geneva Convention’s provisions in establishing and administering internment camps during Second World War, despite the fact that the convention did not apply to civilian internees. The article contends that, although the Southern Rhodesian government was committed to the Geneva Convention of 1929, which specified the guidelines and norms for the treatment of pr…
Agrarian transformation and artisanal and small-scale chrome mining on Zimbabwe's Great Dyke geological formation
Of Outcrops and Narrow Seams: Geology, Tribute Agreements and Cooperative Chromite Mining along Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, 1985–2022
This article argues that the development of cooperative chromite mining in postcolonial Zimbabwe was largely shaped by geological factors, particularly the geotechnical challenges of extracting the narrow (thin) and frequently faulted chromite seams in the northern section of the Great Dyke geological formation. It examines the geological knowledge and mining skills of miners in cooperatives. It also considers the roles of government departments,…
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