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Für schwarze Frauen auf dem Land in Simbabwe, die neben Hausarbeit und Kinderbetreuung seit jeher einen Großteil der landwirtschaftlichen Arbeit verrichten, ist es bis heute schwierig geblieben, selbst Eigentum an Grund und Boden erwerben zu können. Damit bleibt den meisten dieser Frauen das Grundrecht auf die Möglichkeit zur ökonomischen Selbständigkeit verwehrt. Der Artikel schildert die systematische Benachteiligung, die die Frauen Simbabwes in dieser Hinsicht in der traditionellen, kolonialen und noch in der nachkolonialen Gesellschaft erfuhren. Während ihre Männer häufig als Wanderarbeiter oder Lohnarbeiter in den Städten Geld verdienten, bildeten die Frauen auf den Dörfern als billige Arbeitskräfte das Rückgrat der Landwirtschaft. Bei allen Fortschritten in der gesetzlichen Regelung der Gleichstellung der Frauen in anderen Bereichen in den letzten Jahren wurde der Eigentumsfrage in der Landwirtschaft offiziell bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Eine Abwanderung jüngerer Frauen in die Städte und eine Verlagerung ihrer ökonomischen Aktivitäten in außerlandwirtschaftliche Bereiche ist bereits als direkte Folge des fehlenden gesicherten Zugangs zu Landeigentum zu beobachten. (DÜI-Ply)

This paper focuses on the issue of human rights with respect to women's land rights in Zimbabwe. The concept of human rights is particularly pertinent because of the debates on land reform and the activities of the land Commission exploring possibilities for the reform of land use in Zimbabwe.

Enlightenment & bourgeois philosophers such as John Stuart Mill & Jean-Jacques Rousseau premised the concepts of nationality & citizenship on the subordination of women, the colonized, the enslaved, the blacks outside Europe, & the peasants & working classes in Europe. Feminists & suffragettes in the West struggled for better lives within the bourgeois world. States in southern Africa have adopted these Eurocentric concepts & used them to limit the entitlements of women nationals of all classes, peasants & working people, migrants, & refugees to mobility, land, & other forms of capital. Struggles for democracy should focus on redefining citizenship & nationality in ways that benefit the stateless, homeless, poor, disenfranchised, & migrants, paying particular attention to women & children in these groups. AA

This paper discusses the issues concerning HIV and AIDS within the context of capitalist development in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is the epicenter of the HIV and AIDS pandemic and coupled with growing poverty in Africa in general, there is need to understand the trajectory of Southern Africa in the present phase of global capitalist development. The paper is contextualised in post-adjustment Southern Africa in which all the countries have adopted and implemented economic structural adjustment programs of various sorts, all of which share common features such as liberalization of capital, labour and commodities and services. The paper raises issues about research, directions for future intervention so that there are better understandings of processes for containing, reducing and mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa.

A research paper on affirmative action on gender issues at the University of Zimbabwe. ; The everyday lives of students and staff in acadeipic institutions are shaped by the ideologies of masculinity and femininity that prevail within their societies, families and their specific educational institutions! As indicated by Kessler (1985) organisations have differing gender regimes that model the types of masculinity and femininity manufactured, reinforced and exhibited within them by students and staff. These behaviours vary depending on the social class, age, ethnicity and race of the males. The material for this chapter is based on teaching experiences and the research findings, submissions and contributions made by students to the Gender Studies Association/Affirmative Action Project, funded by the Ford Foundation at the University of Zimbabwe. This project was funded in order to produce data on gender inequalities amongst staff and students, to monitor and report on the progress of the affirmative acfton polity of the university and to lay down the basis for fostering gender equity, democracy and the respect of the rights of all the stakeholders in the university.

Im Anhang: "SADC Draft Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons" vom 15. März 1996