Capital and class in Zimbabwe: 1890 -1940

The key to understanding the path of capitalist development in colonial Zimbabwe lies in analysis of the relations of conflict between capital and labour, and in the transformation of the long association of international capital with settler colonialism in the course of struggle to secure the conditions for the accumulation and reproduction of capital in general.

A historical chronicle of the relationship between class and capital in colonial Rhodesia between 1890 and 1948. Paper presented at UZ, History Seminar Room, 6th October 1980.