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The land reform deception : political opportunism in Zimbabwe's land seizure era
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ISBN: 0199398313 0199398305 0190613874 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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This work explores what is inarguably the most socially and economically transformative event in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980-the land seizure era. It explains why Mugabe risked the social and economic well-being of Zimbabwe by targeting commercial farms, which were a vital source of commodities, a major employer, and a critical source of tax revenue. It also uncovers why the 'land redistribution program,' as Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF party claimed the takeovers to be, occurred 20 years after independence and in a very chaotic manner.

Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987
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ISBN: 1107135362 1280434554 1139148621 051118008X 0511061331 0511055005 0511330901 0511492162 0511069790 9780511061332 9780521818230 0521818230 9780511492167 9780511069796 9780511055003 9786610434558 6610434557 0521537703 9780521537704 9781107135369 9781280434556 9781139148627 9780511330902 9780521027618 0521027616 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies.


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Colonialism & violence in Zimbabwe : a history of suffering
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ISBN: 1782041192 1299200044 1847010512 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Suffering, the experience of violation brought on by an act of violence or violent circumstances, is omnipresent in today's world - if only indirectly through global media representation. Despite this apparent immediacy, understanding how a person makes sense of his or her suffering tends to be fragmentary and often elusive. This book examines this key question through the lens of rural Zimbabwe and a frontier area on the border with Mozambique. It shows how African women, men, and children fashioned their life-worlds in the face of conflict. Historian Heike Schmidt challenges the apparently inseparable twin pairing of Africa and suffering. Even in situations of great distress, she argues, individuals and groups may articulate their social desires and political ambitions, and reforge their identities - as long as the experience of violence is not one of sheer terror. She emphasizes the crucial role women, chiefs, and youths played in the renegotiation of a sense of belonging during different periods of time. Based on sustained fieldwork, 'Colonialism and Violence' offers a compelling history of suffering in a small valley in Zimbabwe over the course of 150 years. Heike Schmidt is a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford.


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The politics of the dead in Zimbabwe, 2000-2020 : bones, rumours and spirits
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ISBN: 1847012671 1800103557 1800103565 Year: 2022 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey,


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The COVID-19 - health systems nexus : emerging trends, issues and dynamics in Zimbabwe
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ISBN: 3031216024 3031216016 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This contributed volume presents a collection of empirical studies examining how the COVID-19 pandemic interacted with and impacted Zimbabwe’s health sector. Zimbabwe was hit particularly hard by the pandemic, with a case fatality ratio that fluctuated but reached as high as 9.90% in late June, 2021. COVID-19 exposed and highlighted a plethora of structural weaknesses in the country, including an incapacitated health management system. The studies presented in the book show that the pandemic disrupted the preventative, curative and rehabilitative services within Zimbabwe’s health sector. This has impacted and will likely continue to impact population health outcomes and further exacerbate the issues that previously existed in a very fragile healthcare system that was struggling to cope with its disease burden even before the pandemic. The book contributes to an emerging literature profiling how health systems manage (or fail to manage) global pandemics. It aims to be a distinctive source of information toward the implementation of practical solutions to problems associated with COVID-19. The volume takes a multidisciplinary approach toward practical, policy-oriented strategies to tackle the pandemic and confront our “new normal.” The studies presented here will be useful to anyone interested in the mitigation, containment and ultimately preemption of the emergence of future pandemics.


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Race and diplomacy in Zimbabwe : the Cold War and decolonization, 1960-1984
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ISBN: 1009281666 1009281690 1009281682 1009281704 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and elsewhere. In this African history of the diplomacy of decolonization in Zimbabwe, Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia examines the relationship and rivalry between Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe over many years of diplomacy, and how both leaders took advantage of Cold War racialized thinking about what Zimbabwe should be, including Anglo-American preoccupations with keeping whites from leaving after Independence.


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Zimbabwe ... performance report.
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ISSN: 1948769X Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Agency for International Development


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Results review and resources request (R4).
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ISSN: 1948772X Year: 1999 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Agency for International Development

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