AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARS COUNCIL
Zimbabwe, anticipation of economic and humanitarian needs : Rhodesia
This occasional paper gives an overview of Rhodesia as it prepares to change to majority rule, and it covers history, geography, ethnicity and sectionalism, the administration of Africans, and the administrative reservoir; it also covers the neighboring countries and foreign relations, industrial and consumer markets, transportation, politics, and the liberation struggle.
Rotberg, R. I. · 1970
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Abstract
From a political viewpoint, the major problems of Zimbabwean independence will be: how to prevent deferred civil war; how to prevent conflict by minimizing ethnic or sectional conflict over appointments to the central bureaucracy and the security forces; and how to eliminate this ethnic-organized envy by minimizing conflict over developmental decisions which will be seen as favoring one group or another. Problems also include: how to integrate the peoples of Zimbabwe; how to give control of the white directed government and economy to blacks; how to minimize the shortrun flight of whites; and, how to maintain existing levels of agricultural and industrial productivity in the face of instability.
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