184BOOK REVIEWSthan already depressed export prices. This was ensured by an elaborate 'rake offsystem whereby traders, miners, ranchers and farmers purchasing maize fromAfricans were obliged to pay levies to the Board which thereby derived the incomefor subsidizing the export losses of the large European maize growers (ibid,,18-20).In effect, what the Co-op participated in was an elaborate exercise designed toensure the survival of the European farming sector at the expense of the African.It is to the Co-op's credit that its members 'vigorously opposed' the two-poolquota system operated by the Maize Control Board, albeit for the wrong reasons.For not only was the system 'the very antithesis of co-operation'. It was, in the finalanalysis, also a piece of blatant exploitation.Ministry of Education and CultureSalisburyC. F. KEYTERSable: The Story of Tie Salisbury Club By C, Black.1981, xiv, 254 pp., no price indicated.Salisbury, privately.This story of Zimbabwe's senior club is basically a collection of lively biographiesof chairmen and members over the years. As such it is interesting reading andalmost constitutes a non-political Who's Who of Southern Rhodesia. It is a pity,however, that someone with Black's knowledge and skill did not attempt a moreanalytical history of an institution that, one may guess, played not a small part indefining Establishment consensus in White Rhodesia. Civil servants of a certainrank were expected to join; Ministers were extended membership if not alreadymembers. Thus when Special Juries were created there was considerable Whiteopposition to being judged as well as ruled by the Salisbury Club.R.S.R.Education for Employment By R. Riddell. Gwelo, Mambo Press in associ-ation with the Catholic Institute for International Relations and the Justiceand Peace Commission, From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe 9, 1980, 72pp.,Z$0.95.The inertia of a complex system is great. Although in a revolutionary era men'sminds easily leap ahead, rapid change 'on the ground' in an educational system isvirtually impossible. Thus, although published in 1980, this book is still of interestand importance, and must have provided a useful contribution to the ferment ofideas that has surrounded education in Zimbabwe since Independence.In the first two thirds of the book the author provides an excellent survey ofhow matters stood in education in this country on the eve of Independence, and howwe had reached that situation along a road paved with racialism. But with greatperception he remarks;The removal of racial discrimination, in practice as well as theory, andpolicies of positive discrimination will not solve the country's educationand development problems on their own. Indeed, in future years, it may