Hidden Conflict—A Documentary Record of Administrative Policy in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1950-1980

This study examines administrative policy originating in the civil service between 1950 and 1980 in colonial Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia). The text is largely based upon material from the National Records of Rhodesia relating to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The author was given unrestricted access to these records between 1975 and 1978, and a number of the files are no longer available. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

G.C. PASSMORE served as head of research in the Johannesburg Social Affairs department. Here she was Faculty Research Fellow in the Political Science Department of the University of Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) from 1968 to 1972. The Independent Tribal Areas Research Foundation commissioned her in 1975 to make a study of development policy based on official records, completed in 1978. These recordscomprise the bulk of her book, which builds on that research. She was an Associate of the African Studies Center, University of Cambridge, from 1983 to 1986.