Takura Zhangazha

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  • Anticipating Change in Zimbabwe: Understanding Expectations, Knowing Realities

     By Takura Zhangazha* A Presentation to  the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) Public Seminar 28 July 28, 2016, Harare, Zimbabwe.  Cde Chairperson Heather Koga, I would like to thank you for inviting me to this important discussion forum at a time when a multiplicity of events and actors are expressing and acting out their intentions… …

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  • We Need To Talk About Class and Consciousness in Zimbabwe

    By Takura Zhangazha* We have stopped talking about ‘class’ in Zimbabwe.  Yet ironically our national and very real political contestations have generally been motivated by the ‘politics of the belly’  and/or  the state of the economy. Instead  our conversations have revolved around governance and patriotic history in their polar opposite dimensions.  The results of which… …

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  • July 6 Stay Away: Enter WhatsApp+ Mediating Zimbabwe’s New Consciousness

    By Takura Zhangazha* There are a number of causes and actors for the mass action that occurred in Zimbabwe on Wednesday 6 July 2016.  Some reasons being more immediate than others, and some actors being more key than others, but all contributing at varying levels to the national strike/shutdown (whatever you prefer to call it.)… …

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  • Debating the Changing Writing, Cultural Intellectualism in Zim

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