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Incomes, Employment, and Political Power in Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Peter S. Harris
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On 24 November 1971 the British and Rhodesian Governments agreed on a set of proposals designed to bring to an end the constitutional dispute between their two countries.1 A final endorsement of the proposals by ‘the people of Rhodesia as a whole’ would result in the lifting of British economic sanctions,2 and the recognition of Rhodesia as an independent state and the present régime as the legal Government. The terms of this settlement have been widely publicised and will therefore not be reproduced here. However, the essential features of the constitutional mechanism as far as they may have been affected by economic trends are as follows:

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 583 - 596
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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Page 583 note 1 The Rhodesian version is contained in Anglo-Rhodesian Relations. Proposals for a Settlement (Salisbury, 1971)Google Scholar, and the British version, giving slightly more background, in Rhodesia. Proposals for a Settlement (London, 1971), Cmnd. 4835.Google Scholar

Page 583 note 2 See le Roux, A. A., ‘British Sanctions Legislation’, in Rhodesian Law Journal (Salisbury), 04 1969.Google Scholar

Page 584 note 1 Rhodesia: Report of the Commission on Rhodesian Opinion under the Chairmanship of the Right Honourable the Lord Pearce (London, 1972), Cmnd. 4964, p. 2.Google Scholar

Page 584 note 2 Of Rhodesia's estimated 5,500,000 people, 249,000 are European, 9,300 Asian, 16,900 Coloured, and 5,220,000 African. Monthly Digest of Statistics, January 1972 (Salisbury, 1972).Google Scholar

Page 584 note 3 Cmnd. 4964, p. 80.

Page 584 note 4 ibid. p. 53.

Page 586 note 1 These and subsequent registration figures have been obtained from the office of the Registrar of Voters, Salisbury.

Page 586 note 2 Monthly Digest of Statistics (Salisbury), 01 1972, pp. 1–3.Google Scholar

Page 587 note 1 Source: Central Statistical Office, Wage Distribution of African Employees, 06 1971 (Salisbury, 1971, mimeo.). During 1971Google Scholar, £1 sterling = Rh.$1·7.

Page 587 note 2 Cf. Parliamentary Debates. House of Assembly (Salisbury), 25 11 1971.Google Scholar

Page 588 note 1 Final Report on the September 1961 Census of Employees (Salisbury, 1965)Google Scholar, and Wage Distribution of African Employees, June 1971.

Page 588 note 2 A valuable study on changes in the distribution of African incomes has been made by Sutcliffe, R. B., ‘Stagnation and Inequality in Rhodesia, 1946–68’, in the Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics (Oxford), xxxi, 1, 02 1971.Google Scholar

Page 589 note 1 Cf. Palley, C., ‘Rhodesia: the time scale’, in The Sunday Times (London), 28 10 1971.Google Scholar

Page 590 note 1 National Accounts and Balance of Payments of Rhodesia, 1970 (Salisbury, 1971).Google Scholar

Page 591 note 1 For a discussion of the influence of non-market forces, see Clarke, D. G. and Harris, P. S., ‘Further Considerations of Growth Estimates for the Rhodesian Economy’, in South African Journal of Economics (Johannesburg), XXXVIII, 4, 12 1970.Google Scholar

Page 591 note 2 The essential features of this conflict have been outlined in ‘White Unions about to Explode’, in Properly and Finance (Salisbury), 181, 03 1971Google Scholar, and in The Rhodesian Financial Gazette (Salisbury), 2, 9Google Scholar, and 30 April, and 7 May 1971.

Page 592 note 1 Parliamentary Debates. House of Assembly, 16 November 1971.

Page 592 note 2 A critical evaluation of Luveve Technical College in Bulawayo is to be found in the Annual Report of the Secretary for African Education for the Year 1963 (Salisbury, 1964), p. 7Google Scholar; it was closed the following year, Ibid.1964, p. 6.

Page 593 note 1 See for example, Martin, A., Report on the Brigades of Botswana (Gaborone, 1971).Google Scholar

Page 593 note 2 The case for the present policy was initially presented in the Report of the Under-Secretary for Immigration and Tourism for the Tear ended 31St December 1964 (Salisbury, 1965)Google Scholar, and refined by Sadie, J. L., Planning for the Economic Development of Rhodesia (Salisbury, 1967)Google Scholar. A review of the policy has been made by Clarke, D. G., ‘The Assumed Employment Generating Capacity of European Immigration in Rhodesia’, in The Rhodesian Journal of Economics (Salisbury), IV, 2, 06 1970.Google Scholar

Page 593 note 3 The Rhodesian Government intends spending $355,000 on assisted passages alone during the current financial year; Estimates of Expenditure, 1971–72 (Salisbury, 1971), p. 91.Google Scholar

Page 594 note 1 Report of the Commissioner of Taxes for the Tear ended 30th June 1968 (Salisbury, 1969).Google Scholar

Page 594 note 2 Cmnd. 4835, p. 17.

Page 594 note 3 An example of such a programme may be found in Luke, T. C., Bechuanaland: Report on Localisation and Training (Mafeking, 1966).Google Scholar

Page 594 note 4 Survey of Existing Vacancies, November 1971 (Salisbury, 1972).Google Scholar

Page 594 note 5 Associated Chambers of Commerce of Rhodesia, , Manpower and Wage Survey of the Rhodesian Economy (Salisbury, 1971).Google Scholar