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The regime change agenda has dominated political discourse in Zimbabwe in the 21st century. Attempts at deposing the ZANU PF regime have resulted in adverse social, economic and political consequences which have compromised development processes. The regime change agenda has been championed by Western forces as well as local opposition groups. The plot to remove Mugabe's ZANU PF regime emerged against the backdrop of economic mismanagement and the government's decision to embark on land reform which targeted mainly white farmers. The book explores the sources of the regime change agenda.It examines the form the agenda assumed. It also explains how ZANU PF thwarted the regime change not just through repression but also through political dexterity and popularity derived from the liberation war. Lastly, the book forecasts the future of the regime change agenda in Zimbabwe.
In this book the author provides a moving account of how supporters of the current President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa harnessed the power and influence of Social Media to incite, provoke and initiate public discussion of succession of Zimbabwe's former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe so that the succession process would be clear ahead of vacancy to prevent State Presidential vacancy which would have posed the risk of national instability. Through extracts from various social media posts of the author and other supporters of President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the author provides a chronological and hands on account of how the author and fellow supporters of President ED Mnangagwa used social media to catalyze the retirement of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his replacement by incumbent President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. The author also ventilates the strategic importance of national convergence by illustrating how national convergence of The People, The Political Parties, The Army and Parliament was crucial in causing MugabeXit and EDpfee which had proved difficult to achieve when pursued without that national convergence. In it all the power and influence of Social Media can not be overemphasized.
This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but resilient ‘nationalist-military’ alliance crafted during the anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably, violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption, which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a self-styled ‘Chimurenga aristocracy.’ However, this Chimurenga aristocracy is not cohesive, as the politics that led to Robert Mugabe’s ousting from power was preceded by dirty and protracted internal factionalism. At the center of the factional politics was the ‘first family’:Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe. This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the complex contemporary politics in Zimbabwe, taking seriously such issues as gender, misogyny, militarism, violence, media, identity, modes of accumulation, the ethnicization of politics, attempts to open lines of credit and FDI, national healing, and the national question as key variables not only of a complete political culture but also of difficult transitional politics.
Formerly one of Africa s most promising economies, Zimbabwe has begun a process of economic reconstruction after decades of political turmoil and economic mismanagement. The advent of a national unity government in February 2009 launched a new but still tentative era of political stability. The government has a daunting political and economic agenda. Top priorities include restoring the rule of law, demonstrating fiscal responsibility, and putting in place macroeconomic and structural reforms to win the confidence of domestic and international investors. An optimistic time frame for its socio-economic recovery is now estimated to be at least ten years. Zimbabwe: Picking Up the Pieces chronicles the steps that led to the downturn of the Zimbabwean state and economy before assessing what can be done to resuscitate a once-thriving society. Leading experts from and on the region explore the country s options on key governance issues, from strengthening institutions to addressing food security to promoting private sector development to mobilizing donor country assistance. This collection offers a unique glimpse into a fragile state and the severe costs Zimbabweans have and will have to endure if there is to be any hope of recovery.
In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were the black occupiers being freed from racist bondage as cheap laborers by the state-supported massive land redistribution, or were they victims of state violence who had been denied access to their homes, social services, and jobs? Blair Rutherford examines the unequal social and power relations shaping the lives, livelihoods, and struggles of some of the farm workers during this momentous period in Zimbabwean history. His analysis is anchored in the time he spent on a horticultural farm just east of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, that was embroiled in the tumult of political violence associated with jambanja, the democratization movement. Rutherford complicates this analysis by showing that there was far more in play than political oppression by a corrupt and authoritarian regime and a movement to rectify racial and colonial land imbalances, as dominant narratives would have it. Instead, he reveals, farm worker livelihoods, access to land, gendered violence, and conflicting promises of rights and sovereignty played a more important role in the political economy of citizenship and labor than had been imagined.
This book offers an insightful and critical examination of Zimbabwe's education system. The authors take a broad perspective and explore the most important aspects of the education system. The book starts by looking at the history of Zimbabwe's education system focusing on its development from an exclusionary past where a few privileged individuals could access education, and proceeds to explore the country's universal education, which followed the attainment of political independence from Great Britain in 1980. The authors then go on to examine the socio-economic and political factors that have contributed to the collapse of a once-vibrant education system that has been credited with producing, arguably, some of Africa's finest professionals. As an antidote to this, the authors discuss service delivery models that have emerged as "best and effective" practices in education and how these could transform the country's education system so that it can meet the educational, societal, professional, and economic demands of the 21st Century a timely focus for a country trying to reinvent itself as it emerges from a decade-long severe socio-economic and political crises. The authors did an excellent job of discussing how to maximise positive educational outcomes for every Zimbabwean child via early childhood education, special education, inclusive education, counsellor education and educational research. To their credit, the authors focus on fundamental educational issues pertaining to teacher preparation, emphasising structural, functional and sociological needs in response to the demands of a 21st Century economy. The book is an excellent resource for scholars, researchers, teacher preparation programs, professional development programs for in-service teachers, development studies programs, history scholars, and policy-makers, among others.
Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people’s deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it communicates spirituality, economic, and political realities. This volume examines the multiple roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in the last one and a half decades. While concentrating on the tumultuous 2000–2013 period, the themes that are addressed here are enduring. Thus, the book explores the interplay between music and gender, music and politics, and music and identity construction in Zimbabwe, and it interacts with most of the dominant genres in Zimbabwean music, including Sungura, ZORA, Chimurenga, Gospel and the Urban Grooves. This volume will interest specialists in the study of ethnomusicology, in addition to scholars of literature, religious studies, philosophy, theatre arts, political science, and history.
On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of the country and forced him to step down as leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In this revised and updated edition of his classic biography, Stephen Chan seeks to explain and interpret Mugabe in his role as a key player in the politics of Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait of one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, Mugabe's character unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe's story is Zimbabwe's - from the post-independence hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral victory, the successful intervention in the international politics of Southern Africa and the resistance to South Africa's policy of apartheid. But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption and disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Stephen Chan's highly revealing biography, based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to political power. We follow the triumphant nationalist leader who reconciled all in the new multiracial Zimbabwe, degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self-righteousness and ultimately face an ignominious endgame at the hands of his own army.