“To Serve Administrative Purposes and Native Interests?”

Clement Masakure ([email protected]) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Eric Kushinga Makombe ([email protected]) is a Research Fellow in the History Department at the University of the Free State and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. His broad research interests are in urban history, agrarian and development studies, human economy and sustainability, rural-urban linkages and rural development, and more recently climate change. Some of his articles have appeared in Global Environment and the Journal of Developing Societies.