Mark Nyandoro
Biographic Data
| ID | 244641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Nyandoro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyandoro |
| SIGNATURE | NYANDORO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1716-0102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transboundary Covid-19 response on health communication in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
A global COVID-19 pandemic caused untold community disruptions, a huge toll on lives and placed major burdens on the economies of developing countries. It spread worldwide within a short period of time before nations could mobilise evidence for the best responses. Communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe were heavily disrupted. This article focuses on exploring the transboundary differences in COVID-19 responses, plus the implications f…
Bandits’ and machete gangs: The criminalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe
The History of Water as an Economic or Social Good in Post-Colonial Botswana, 1966–2020
Throughout history, water has been important for sustaining life. In southern Africa and in global literature, water is variously construed. It is perceived in diverse disciplines including water history either as a social, economic or political good. This article argues that conceptions of the commodity in post-colonial and predominantly arid to semi-arid Botswana varied historically between the social and economic value of water. However, this …
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930-1965
In the 1930s the colonial authorities in Zimbabwe set aside geographical areas where Africans were allowed to purchase land. Despite having private property rights to land, a rare occurrence among Africans in colonial times, the performance of this group of farmers has rarely been investigated. In this article, we show that the average group of ‘native purchase’ farming households performed far better than the average African farmer in the native…
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967-1990
This article explores agrarian labour relationships between the pilot Smallholder Gowe Irrigation Scheme, the contiguous dryland farming community and TILCOR/ARDA’s core irrigation estate in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, from 1967 to 1990. It is an analysis of the emerging smallholder cotton irrigation agriculture and the contradictions between this process and the labour requirements of the estate sector. The article argues that, once the main irrigation e…
Water Sources and Urban Expansion in Ruwa Town in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, 1986-2020
Africa is experiencing phenomenal urban growth and myriad environmental challenges associated with urban sprawl. Zimbabwe, situated in the heart of the southern African region, is no exception to this rule. Urban population has continued to spike, with more than half the world's population residing in urban areas. Although Africa has less than forty per cent (33 per cent for Zimbabwe) of its population living in urban habitats, urban development …
Forced Migration, Resistance and Adaptation: The Madheruka Cotton Production and Differentiation in Pre-Irrigation Era Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1950–1967
There is a large volume of African scholarship that contextualises migration in terms of internally-and-externally-motivated movement of people. However, scholarship that considers internal-migration and forced-evictions from their land by the colonial-settler-state in Zimbabwe and the impact of such evictions on the people of Sanyati is limited. This article examines the impact of state-induced-migration of African-peasants from the Rhodesdale-R…
Water and the environment in southern Africa: A review of the literature since 1990
This article is a review of the dominant literature on water issues, water rights and the environment in southern Africa. Being the first in a series of reviews of different regions, it is framed through a survey of national literature that has emerged since the 1990s, with a particular focus on South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Its central objective and/or purpose is to review select publications in which I foreground significant historiograp…
Tobacco Thrives, but the Environment Cries: The Sustainability of Livelihoods from Small-Scale Tobacco Growing in Zimbabwe, 2000-2017
This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and the sustainability of livelihoods among small-scale African tobacco-farmers following the reform programme. Tobacco was significant in the colonial cash economy and remains a key cash crop in post-colonial Zimbabwe since 1980. Much of the extant tobacco literature focuses on white-settler tobacco farming in c…
A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa: The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present , by Jeremiah Mutio Kitunda
(2019). A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa: The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present, by Jeremiah Mutio Kitunda. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 62-67
The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda , by Jennifer Tappan
(2020). The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda, by Jennifer Tappan. African Historical Review. Ahead of Print
Decolonising urban space: Observations from history in urban planning in Ruwa town, Zimbabwe, 1986-2015
This article calls for a shift of attention from the colonial urban planning methods to a focus on the post-colonial planning methods being adopted in new towns such as Ruwa. The core of the studies on urban planning in Zimbabwe has been centred on colonial established urban centres tending to promote the reproduction of spatial disparities in urban areas. This article argues that the only way to decolonise urban space in Zimbabwe is through esta…
Citizen Engagement Circumvented: An Analysis of Liquid Waste Information/Knowledge, Control and Environmental Policy Perspectives in Harare, Zimbabwe
Evidence of the socio-political and economic impacts of liquid waste at the global level is rapidly emerging as an important new field of study in the twenty-first century, as testified by the works of Gandy, Reid, Barnes, Alley and Zimmer on the politics and history of liquid waste. This evidence is increasingly being considered by scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds (Economic History, Water Engineering, Biology, Geography and Environmen…
Transition from growth point policy to liberal urban development in Zimbabwe: The emergence of Ruwa Town, 1980-1991
This article traces the transition from growth point policy to liberal development in the emergence of Ruwa Town in Zimbabwe from independence in 1980 to 1990/1991 when the town was declared an urban area under the administration of the Ruwa Local Board. In this period, there was a dire need for urban infrastructure (catalysed by a boom in urban population) in what was originally a commercial farming area. The article also analyses the role of pr…
Navigating the hills and voluntary confinement: Magweja and the socio-economic and political negotiation for space in the diamond mining landscape of Chiadzwa in Zimbabwe, 2006-2009
This article focuses on the socio-economic and political experiences of the artisanal diamond miners and the various communities within the hills of Chiadzwa situated in the Marange area of Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe. The diamond rush by Magweja which can be traced back to 2006 ended in 2009 with the violent expulsion of Magweja in January 2009 under operation “dzokera kumusha”. This phase in the country’s mining history has popularly been c…
Innovation opportunities in irrigation technology for using virtual water in 21st Century South Africa: Reflections from the past to the present
In 21st century South Africa, new and old technological innovations in agriculture can be employed to protect existing and future water supplies that are increasingly becoming vulnerable to encroaching global warming trends. The purpose of this article is to identify irrigation technology, the impact on irrigative farming of a polluted water environment through mining and other baneful industrial activities in the Republic. It also aims to discus…
Views on unlawful water abstractions along the Liebenbergsvlei River, South Africa
As a result of the growing demand for additional water supplies, officials at the National Department of Water Affairs (DWA) continually monitor consumption patterns. The unlawful abstraction of water for irrigation purposes along the Axle and Liebenbergsvlei water transfer scheme, a South African river catchment, has been identified as a potential over-consumption hotspot. An investigation into the evolution of modern farming and irrigation deve…
Development and Differentiation in the Post-Independence Era: Continuity or Change in Arda-Sanyati Irrigation in Zimbabwe (1980–1990)
The Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA), formerly known as the Tribal Trust Land Development Corporation (TILCOR), is a state agency which manages all the settler or outgrower schemes adjacent to its estates. In Sanyati, the colonial government endeavoured to secure the plotholders on the Gowe Irrigation Scheme but after independence emphasis was on making Gowe a ‘self-provisioning’ asset. With reference to Gowe-Sanyati, this pape…
The Gowe Irrigation co-operative society and its role in Sanyati (Zimbabwe), 1967-1969
The paper focuses on the origins and development of agricultural co-operative societies in Zimbabwe since 1954 with particular reference to Gowe-Sanyati and evaluates their role in facilitating the channelling of production inputs to farmers and the marketing oftheir produce. It examines the criteria for eligibility to membership of such associations, namely who could belong and who could not, as well as their administrative structures and practi…
Water Sources and Urban Expansion in Ruwa Town in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, 1986-2020
Africa is experiencing phenomenal urban growth and myriad environmental challenges associated with urban sprawl. Zimbabwe, situated in the heart of the southern African region, is no exception to this rule. Urban population has continued to spike, with more than half the world's population residing in urban areas. Although Africa has less than forty per cent (33 per cent for Zimbabwe) of its population living in urban habitats, urban development …
Forced Migration, Resistance and Adaptation: The Madheruka Cotton Production and Differentiation in Pre-Irrigation Era Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1950–1967
There is a large volume of African scholarship that contextualises migration in terms of internally-and-externally-motivated movement of people. However, scholarship that considers internal-migration and forced-evictions from their land by the colonial-settler-state in Zimbabwe and the impact of such evictions on the people of Sanyati is limited. This article examines the impact of state-induced-migration of African-peasants from the Rhodesdale-R…
The Gowe Irrigation co-operative society and its role in Sanyati (Zimbabwe), 1967-1969
The paper focuses on the origins and development of agricultural co-operative societies in Zimbabwe since 1954 with particular reference to Gowe-Sanyati and evaluates their role in facilitating the channelling of production inputs to farmers and the marketing oftheir produce. It examines the criteria for eligibility to membership of such associations, namely who could belong and who could not, as well as their administrative structures and practi…
Development and Differentiation in the Post-Independence Era: Continuity or Change in Arda-Sanyati Irrigation in Zimbabwe (1980–1990)
The Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA), formerly known as the Tribal Trust Land Development Corporation (TILCOR), is a state agency which manages all the settler or outgrower schemes adjacent to its estates. In Sanyati, the colonial government endeavoured to secure the plotholders on the Gowe Irrigation Scheme but after independence emphasis was on making Gowe a ‘self-provisioning’ asset. With reference to Gowe-Sanyati, this pape…
Views on unlawful water abstractions along the Liebenbergsvlei River, South Africa
As a result of the growing demand for additional water supplies, officials at the National Department of Water Affairs (DWA) continually monitor consumption patterns. The unlawful abstraction of water for irrigation purposes along the Axle and Liebenbergsvlei water transfer scheme, a South African river catchment, has been identified as a potential over-consumption hotspot. An investigation into the evolution of modern farming and irrigation deve…
Innovation opportunities in irrigation technology for using virtual water in 21st Century South Africa: Reflections from the past to the present
In 21st century South Africa, new and old technological innovations in agriculture can be employed to protect existing and future water supplies that are increasingly becoming vulnerable to encroaching global warming trends. The purpose of this article is to identify irrigation technology, the impact on irrigative farming of a polluted water environment through mining and other baneful industrial activities in the Republic. It also aims to discus…
Navigating the hills and voluntary confinement: Magweja and the socio-economic and political negotiation for space in the diamond mining landscape of Chiadzwa in Zimbabwe, 2006-2009
This article focuses on the socio-economic and political experiences of the artisanal diamond miners and the various communities within the hills of Chiadzwa situated in the Marange area of Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe. The diamond rush by Magweja which can be traced back to 2006 ended in 2009 with the violent expulsion of Magweja in January 2009 under operation “dzokera kumusha”. This phase in the country’s mining history has popularly been c…
Transition from growth point policy to liberal urban development in Zimbabwe: The emergence of Ruwa Town, 1980-1991
This article traces the transition from growth point policy to liberal development in the emergence of Ruwa Town in Zimbabwe from independence in 1980 to 1990/1991 when the town was declared an urban area under the administration of the Ruwa Local Board. In this period, there was a dire need for urban infrastructure (catalysed by a boom in urban population) in what was originally a commercial farming area. The article also analyses the role of pr…
Decolonising urban space: Observations from history in urban planning in Ruwa town, Zimbabwe, 1986-2015
This article calls for a shift of attention from the colonial urban planning methods to a focus on the post-colonial planning methods being adopted in new towns such as Ruwa. The core of the studies on urban planning in Zimbabwe has been centred on colonial established urban centres tending to promote the reproduction of spatial disparities in urban areas. This article argues that the only way to decolonise urban space in Zimbabwe is through esta…
Citizen Engagement Circumvented: An Analysis of Liquid Waste Information/Knowledge, Control and Environmental Policy Perspectives in Harare, Zimbabwe
Evidence of the socio-political and economic impacts of liquid waste at the global level is rapidly emerging as an important new field of study in the twenty-first century, as testified by the works of Gandy, Reid, Barnes, Alley and Zimmer on the politics and history of liquid waste. This evidence is increasingly being considered by scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds (Economic History, Water Engineering, Biology, Geography and Environmen…
Water and the environment in southern Africa: A review of the literature since 1990
This article is a review of the dominant literature on water issues, water rights and the environment in southern Africa. Being the first in a series of reviews of different regions, it is framed through a survey of national literature that has emerged since the 1990s, with a particular focus on South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Its central objective and/or purpose is to review select publications in which I foreground significant historiograp…
Tobacco Thrives, but the Environment Cries: The Sustainability of Livelihoods from Small-Scale Tobacco Growing in Zimbabwe, 2000-2017
This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and the sustainability of livelihoods among small-scale African tobacco-farmers following the reform programme. Tobacco was significant in the colonial cash economy and remains a key cash crop in post-colonial Zimbabwe since 1980. Much of the extant tobacco literature focuses on white-settler tobacco farming in c…
A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa: The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present , by Jeremiah Mutio Kitunda
(2019). A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa: The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present, by Jeremiah Mutio Kitunda. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 62-67
The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda , by Jennifer Tappan
(2020). The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda, by Jennifer Tappan. African Historical Review. Ahead of Print
Water Sources and Urban Expansion in Ruwa Town in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, 1986-2020
Africa is experiencing phenomenal urban growth and myriad environmental challenges associated with urban sprawl. Zimbabwe, situated in the heart of the southern African region, is no exception to this rule. Urban population has continued to spike, with more than half the world's population residing in urban areas. Although Africa has less than forty per cent (33 per cent for Zimbabwe) of its population living in urban habitats, urban development …
Forced Migration, Resistance and Adaptation: The Madheruka Cotton Production and Differentiation in Pre-Irrigation Era Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1950–1967
There is a large volume of African scholarship that contextualises migration in terms of internally-and-externally-motivated movement of people. However, scholarship that considers internal-migration and forced-evictions from their land by the colonial-settler-state in Zimbabwe and the impact of such evictions on the people of Sanyati is limited. This article examines the impact of state-induced-migration of African-peasants from the Rhodesdale-R…
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967-1990
This article explores agrarian labour relationships between the pilot Smallholder Gowe Irrigation Scheme, the contiguous dryland farming community and TILCOR/ARDA’s core irrigation estate in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, from 1967 to 1990. It is an analysis of the emerging smallholder cotton irrigation agriculture and the contradictions between this process and the labour requirements of the estate sector. The article argues that, once the main irrigation e…
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930-1965
In the 1930s the colonial authorities in Zimbabwe set aside geographical areas where Africans were allowed to purchase land. Despite having private property rights to land, a rare occurrence among Africans in colonial times, the performance of this group of farmers has rarely been investigated. In this article, we show that the average group of ‘native purchase’ farming households performed far better than the average African farmer in the native…
Transboundary Covid-19 response on health communication in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
A global COVID-19 pandemic caused untold community disruptions, a huge toll on lives and placed major burdens on the economies of developing countries. It spread worldwide within a short period of time before nations could mobilise evidence for the best responses. Communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe were heavily disrupted. This article focuses on exploring the transboundary differences in COVID-19 responses, plus the implications f…
Bandits’ and machete gangs: The criminalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe
The History of Water as an Economic or Social Good in Post-Colonial Botswana, 1966–2020
Throughout history, water has been important for sustaining life. In southern Africa and in global literature, water is variously construed. It is perceived in diverse disciplines including water history either as a social, economic or political good. This article argues that conceptions of the commodity in post-colonial and predominantly arid to semi-arid Botswana varied historically between the social and economic value of water. However, this …
Political science (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Law (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Business (6 works)