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1. Choice and African politics
Author : Jeffrey Ira Herbst
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520068186
1. Choice and African politics
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626373884
Zimbabwe¿s July 2013 election brought the country¿s ¿inclusive¿ power-sharing interlude to an end and installed Mugabe and ZANU-PF for yet another¿its seventh¿term. Why? What explains the resilience of authoritarian rule in Zimbabwe? Tracing the country¿s elusive search for political stability across the decades, Michael Bratton offers a careful analysis of the failed power-sharing experiment, an account of its institutional origins, and an explanation of its demise. In the process, he explores key challenges of political transition: constitution making, elections, security-sector reform, and transitional justice.
Author : George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1108119093
The establishment of legal institutions was a key part of the process of state construction in Africa, and these institutions have played a crucial role in the projection of state authority across space. This is especially the case in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. George Karekwaivanane offers a unique long-term study of law and politics in Zimbabwe, which examines how the law was used in the constitution and contestation of state power across the late-colonial and postcolonial periods. Through this, he offers insight on recent debates about judicial independence, adherence to human rights, and the observation of the rule of law in contemporary Zimbabwean politics. The book sheds light on the prominent place that law has assumed in Zimbabwe's recent political struggles for those researching the history of the state and power in Southern Africa. It also carries forward important debates on the role of law in state-making, and will also appeal to those interested in African legal history.
Author : Sylvester Dombo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319618903
This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political parties or as a platform for opposition political parties, the African Daily News, between 1956-1964, and the Daily News, between 1999-2003, played an essential role in opening up spaces for political freedom in the country. Both newspapers were ultimately shut down by the respective government of the time. The newspapers allowed reading publics the opportunity to participate in politics by providing a daily analytical alternative, to that offered by the government and the state media, in relation to the respective political crises that unfolded in each of these periods. The book further examines both the information policies pursued by the different governments and the way these affected the functioning of private media in their quest to provide an "ideal" public sphere. It explores issues of ownership, funding and editorial policies in reference to each case and how these affected the production of news and issue coverage. It considers issues of class and geography in shaping public response. It also focuses on state reactions to the activities of these newspapers and how these, in turn, affected the activities of private media actors. Finally, it considers the cases together to consider the meanings of the closing down of these newspapers during the two eras under discussion and contributes to the debates about print media vis-à-vis the new forms of media that have come to the fore.
Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The role of NANGO
Author : George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : 9781108455183
"The establishment of legal institutions was a key part of the process of state construction in Africa, and these institutions have played a crucial role in the projection of state authority across space. This is especially the case in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. George Karekwaivanane offers a unique long-term study of law and politics in Zimbabwe, which examines how the law was used in the constitution and contestation of state power across the late-colonial and postcolonial periods. Through this, he offers insight on recent debates about judicial independence, adherence to human rights, and the observation of the rule of law in contemporary Zimbabwean politics. The book sheds light on the prominent place that law has assumed in Zimbabwe's recent political struggles for those researching the history of the state and power in Southern Africa. It also carries forward important debates on the role of law in state-making, and will also appeal to those interested in African legal history"--
Author : Brian Raftopolos
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1779222262
The defeat of ZANU-PF in the 2008 parliamentary election marked the end of one-party rule in Zimbabwe. The Global Political Agreement signed later that resulted in a Government of National Unity, and the former ruling party was, for the first time, faced with the reality of sharing power. The Hard Road to Reform presents a penetrating analysis of developments since the GNU was established, reviewing recent political history from a range of perspectives - political, economic, social and historical, and featuring the best work of Zimbabwe's young scholars. As Brian Raftopolos writes in his introduction: 'the book is an attempt to analyse and assess both the hopes and frustrations of the last four years and to confront the harsh challenges that lie ahead.'
Author : Ibbo Mandaza
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Coalition governments
ISBN : 1564325326
"Documents how the Zimbabwe African Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), the former sole ruling party, is using its greater political power within the government to obstruct human rights improvements. ZANU-PF supporters continue to commit abuses against perceived Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters with impunity. Police, prosecuting authorities, and court officials aligned to ZANU-PF conduct politically motivated prosecutions of MDC legislators and activists"--Cover, p. [4].
Author : Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108472893
An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.