Archival Significance
This issue marks the journal’s renaming from The Rhodesian Journal of Economics to The Zimbabwe Journal of Economics, making it a documentary marker of the naming transition during the Zimbabwe Rhodesia internal-settlement period rather than at formal 1980 independence.
Institutional Context
Edited by A. M. Hawkins, J. A. Girdlestone, and J. M. Robertson as the New Series continuation of the earlier Rhodesian Journal of Economics, contains contributed articles including “A Population Policy for Zimbabwe Rhodesia” by John Hanks.
Content Summary
A general economics journal issue from June 1979, mid-transition between Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe, with contributed research articles on population and economic policy for the territory then styled Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers tracing the economic-policy discourse of the 1979 transitional period specifically, and for the journal’s own institutional history as a marker of when ‘Zimbabwe’ naming began appearing in formal academic publishing ahead of 1980 independence.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house. No sponsoring publisher beyond the printer is confirmed on the item itself; Publisher recorded as not yet confirmed pending further research.