Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020
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| author | Terence M. Mashingaidze |
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| spelling | ir-11408-55272023-04-05T07:25:20Z Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 Terence M. Mashingaidze Department of History, Midlands State University. Gweru, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Violence New dispensation Impunity Silences Denialism Abstract This article attempts to audit the capacity and commitment of Zimbabwe's post-Mug-abe government to reconcile Zimbabweans and heal the country's historical wounds and haunting legacies of politically motivated violence. Following the November 2017 military-assisted transition, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's newfound rhetoric signaled a rejection of the violence and combative politics of his predecessor, the long-serving President Robert Mugabe. In spite of having been a key enabler to President Mugabe from the Zimbabwean liberation struggle days in the 1970s to the postcolonial era, President Mnangagwa re-presented himself as a transformative politician who wanted to deescalate domestic political tensions by calling for peace and inclusivity in the management of national affairs. He also urged his fellow cit-izens to disregard the politically motivated pains of the past and collectively move on under the all-embracing triadic national banner of unity, peace and development. 165Terence M. MashingaidzeBrazilian Journal of African Studies | Porto Alegre | v. 6, n. 11, Jan./Jun. 2021 | p. 151-165In spite of this conciliatory, though amnesia-riven rhetoric, that sought to unify the country's competing and antagonistic political constituencies, in reality, the Mnan-gagwa-led government, popularly defined as the New Dispensation, perpetuated the high-handed Mugabe era tactics of violence, abductions, and enforced disappearances against political opponents. It is therefore argued that the changeover implied in the ideal of a New Dispensation amounted to sheer populist gesturing because Zim-babwe has largely remained enmeshed in the impunity and appeasement gridlock of state-instigated spasms of violence against political opponents, interspersed with official silences and denialism. 6 11 151 165 2023-04-05T07:25:19Z 2023-04-05T07:25:19Z 2021-06 research article https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5527 : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7594-6090 en Brazilian Journal of African Studies Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) 2448-3923 open |
| spellingShingle | Zimbabwe Violence New dispensation Impunity Silences Denialism Terence M. Mashingaidze Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| title | Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| title_full | Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| title_fullStr | Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| title_short | Zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| title_sort | zimbabwe's paradoxical new dispensation. political harm, endemic impunity and unending silences, 2017-2020 |
| topic | Zimbabwe Violence New dispensation Impunity Silences Denialism |
| url | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5527 |
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