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  • Mnangagwa’s NDS1 Economics: Angling Performance Legitimacy via Private Capital

     By Takura Zhangazha* There is an increasing ambiguity when influential Zimbabweans debate their current government’s macro-economic policies.  This is probably because they do not have structured differences with its neoliberal/free market/ease of doing business thrust.  Ordinary Zimbabweans are not so ambiguous in their own debates and discussions.  From general observations they remain highly skeptical due…

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  • Zimbabwe New TV Licenses: Profit, Media and Incrementalism.

     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…

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  • Zim’s November 2017: National Shock, Catharsis, Populism

     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…

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  • Under Currents of Mediated Celebrity Urban Culture in Zimbabwe

    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…

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