ABSTRACT
This chapter describes first the effects of Land Apportionment Act on several communities in the centre of Karangaland, one of the most populous districts of Rhodesia. It also describes the administrative system through which African tribal areas are controlled. Karangaland extends between the towns of Enkeldoorn and Gwelo in the north and the Lundi river in the south, and covers some 14,400 square miles, that is 10 per cent of the total land surface of Rhodesia. The government policy of racial segregation of African and European farming communities in Rhodesia has reserved large tracts of land for white farmers and ranchers, only a small proportion of which is productively used. Great expansion and development of European owned land is therefore possible. But in the tribal areas the policy is causing economic hardships. Tribal trust lands are administered both by traditional leaders and by civil servants.
