Comments on: Who belongs? The politics of citizenship in Africa – Debate Overview http://africanarguments.org/2010/02/the-struggle-for-citizenship-in-africa/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sebastian Kohn http://africanarguments.org/2010/02/the-struggle-for-citizenship-in-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-14860 Sebastian Kohn Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:42:07 +0000 http://africanarguments.org/?p=678#comment-14860 Thank you for your comment, Richard. While we did not look at the Zambian case in any great detail during our research, it appears to have similarities with the situation in Zimbabwe. Any background materials and readings you can suggest on this topic would be very helpful, as it could be featured on the web. Please feel free to email me directly on skohn@justiceinitiative.org Thank you for your comment, Richard. While we did not look at the Zambian case in any great detail during our research, it appears to have similarities with the situation in Zimbabwe.

Any background materials and readings you can suggest on this topic would be very helpful, as it could be featured on the web.

Please feel free to email me directly on skohn@justiceinitiative.org

]]> By: RICHARD DEVERIA http://africanarguments.org/2010/02/the-struggle-for-citizenship-in-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-12813 RICHARD DEVERIA Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:33:21 +0000 http://africanarguments.org/?p=678#comment-12813 Have you considered the transition to independence of Northern Rhodesia?  The 1963 African coalition government repudiated an integrated wage structure and offered citizenship to the European community on terms which very few would accept, as it involved transferring to a lower wage scale. As a result on the stroke of Independence virtually the entire white community were reduced to the status of expatriates, and therefore liable to lose their jobs as soon as Africans could be trained to take over. With no future in the country the departing Europeans then took as much money as possible with them.  They were replaced by expatriates on contract whose main aim was to externalise as much money as possible.  I am sure of this, because I was one of them. By reducing the Europeans to expatriates the Zambian Government also lost its main internal source of capital investment.  The Government embarked on a series of development plans and nationalisations which involved heavy public expenditure.  The net results of Zambia's citizenship policies were emigration for the European, poverty and disillusionment for the African, and massive debts for the country. Richard A A Deveria Mufulira and Kalulushi, Zambia, 1972 - 81 Have you considered the transition to independence of Northern Rhodesia?  The 1963 African coalition government repudiated an integrated wage structure and offered citizenship to the European community on terms which very few would accept, as it involved transferring to a lower wage scale.

As a result on the stroke of Independence virtually the entire white community were reduced to the status of expatriates, and therefore liable to lose their jobs as soon as Africans could be trained to take over.

With no future in the country the departing Europeans then took as much money as possible with them.  They were replaced by expatriates on contract whose main aim was to externalise as much money as possible.  I am sure of this, because I was one of them.

By reducing the Europeans to expatriates the Zambian Government also lost its main internal source of capital investment.  The Government embarked on a series of development plans and nationalisations which involved heavy public expenditure.  The net results of Zambia’s citizenship policies were emigration for the European, poverty and disillusionment for the African, and massive debts for the country.

Richard A A Deveria
Mufulira and Kalulushi, Zambia, 1972 – 81

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