Perfidious ubuntisation of ZANU-PF succession politics : a discursive analysis of Grace Mugabe's campaign against Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa

Lubombo, Musara

doi:10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n1a6

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“…For instance, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan were the topmost generals in the Egyptian and Sudanese militaries. In Guinea, Doumbouya was the head of Guinea's presidential guards, 4 while in Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa held influential positions in the Mugabe administration and rose to the position of Vice President, prior to falling out with Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe (Lubombo 2018). These leaders were all part of the previous systems that marginalised youth and they have resorted to the use of the same practices, after benefiting in most cases from the fall of previous heads of state.…”

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Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa

Bangura¹

2022

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This book critically examines and analyses the active role played by youthled social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their long-term impacts on society.Africa's history is characterised by youth movements. The continent's youth populations played pivotal roles in the campaign against colonialism and, ever since independence, Africa's youth have been at the centre of social mobilisation. Most recently, social media has contributed significantly to a further rise in youth-led social movements. However, the impact of youth voices is often marginalised by patriarchal and gerontocratic approaches to governance, denying them the place, voice, and recognition that they deserve. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, this book analyses the drivers and long-term impacts of youth-led social movements on politics in African societies, especially in the area of peacebuilding. Additionally, the book draws attention to the innovative ways in which young people continue to seek to re-engineer social spaces and challenge contexts that deny them their voice, place, recognition, and identity. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movement studies, youth studies, peace and conflict studies, history, political sciences, social justice, and African studies.

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Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa

Bangura¹

2022

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Eternal mothers, whores or witches: the oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

Ncube¹

2020

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In the country where I come from, Zimbabwe, participation in politics and decision-making is very much a masculine affair. Women occupy peripheral positions in which they are expected not to decentre male dominance. Through cultural practices inflated with religious beliefs, women have often been relegated to the domestic space of the home in which their agency is reduced to executing banal household chores. Positionally, as a male academic, I am fully aware of my privileged position and the multiplicity of rights and liberties that accompany such a position. Even from such a position of privilege, I am not oblivious of the structural and systemic machinations that continue to hinder women from fully taking part in politics, not simply as voters, but more importantly as active holders of positions of power and authority. I am interested in this article in how women in politics in Zimbabwe are framed either as eternal mothers, "whores" or witches who use their sexuality and bodies to get ahead in politics. Although I focus on Grace Mugabe (former First Lady) and Joice Mujuru (former Vice President), women politicians face similar treatment regardless of the political party or party faction that they belong to. I argue that as long as women politicians play according to the patriarchal and masculinist script, they are endearingly referred to as 'Amai' (Shona for mother). The moment that they stray from the patriarchal script and they seek to impose themselves as agentive political characters, they are referred to as 'hure' (Shona for whore or prostitute) or 'muroyi' (Shona for witch). Drawing on the concept of the "unruly African woman" that Chigumadzi articulates in her book These Bones Will Rise Again, and further develops in her essay "In Zimbabwe, the enduring fear of single women", I contend that the trope of the whore is itself a productive imagining of women who refuse to toe the line of patriarchal dictates of feminine visibility and uprightness.

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Perfidious ubuntisation of ZANU-PF succession politics : a discursive analysis of Grace Mugabe's campaign against Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa

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Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa

Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa

Eternal mothers, whores or witches: the oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

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