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Gender, Protests and Political Change in AfricaThe Rise and Demise of the “New Dispensation” in Zimbabwe

Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa: The Rise and Demise of the “New Dispensation” in... [The history of violence, political intolerance, and polarisation in Zimbabwe is rooted in the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)’s view of opposition parties as an existential threat, not only to itself, but also to the state itself. ZANU-PF views opposition parties as counter-revolutionaries that work with the “enemy” to “reverse the gains of independence”. Since 1980, ZANU-PF sought to establish itself as the only political party with the “right” to exist and rule Zimbabwe. This claim is based on its participation in the liberation struggle. This chapter focuses on ZANU-PF’s response to the August 1st protests that followed the July 2018 contested Presidential elections and what that means for the “new dispensation”.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender, Protests and Political Change in AfricaThe Rise and Demise of the “New Dispensation” in Zimbabwe

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Okech, Awino
Tofa, Moses
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa — Jul 4, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. Chapters “Student Movements and Autocracies in Africa”, “A Revolution Deferred: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Egypt”, and “The Revolution Continues: Sudanese Women’s Activism” are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see license information in the chapters.
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978-3-030-46342-7
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173 –199
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10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4_9
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Abstract

[The history of violence, political intolerance, and polarisation in Zimbabwe is rooted in the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)’s view of opposition parties as an existential threat, not only to itself, but also to the state itself. ZANU-PF views opposition parties as counter-revolutionaries that work with the “enemy” to “reverse the gains of independence”. Since 1980, ZANU-PF sought to establish itself as the only political party with the “right” to exist and rule Zimbabwe. This claim is based on its participation in the liberation struggle. This chapter focuses on ZANU-PF’s response to the August 1st protests that followed the July 2018 contested Presidential elections and what that means for the “new dispensation”.]

Published: Jul 4, 2020

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