By Takura Zhangazha* The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) recently licensed six (6) new free to air national commercial television stations. This is a first since our national independence in 1980 that this has been done at this magnitude and in this age of the internet. It had previously been conservatively done in the mid-1990s…
Conversations around the military takeover of the country in November 2017 now revolve around, at least according to a majority of pro-opposition opinion leaders, defining popular support for it as ‘a mistake’. On social media some memes have gone relatively viral about how the 18 November 2017 march as enabled by the military and calling…
By Takura Zhangazha* I am sure there are sociologists, social anthropologists, social psychologists and cultural studies experts that are examining emerging urban cultures in Zimbabwe in great detail. I am only writing on it in relation to its immediate occurrence and mediation. I am focusing mainly on the urban because it is historically the most…
By Takura Zhangazha* I remember being interviewed by a journalist for a global media house some time ago during the November 2017 “coup-not- a coup” in Zimbabwe. In the pre-recorded interview it appeared he preferred an editorial slant that would respond to the general popular view and ‘relief’ that the long duree president, Robert Mugabe…
