Part I. Violence – a Colonial Curse: The 1980 General Elections; Part II. Zanu PF and PF Zapu Violence: The 1985 General Elections; Part III. New Enemy in the 1990 Elections was Zum; Part IV. Zanu PF on Zanu PF Violence in 1995; Part V. What Presidential Election in 1996?; Part VI. The Movement for Democratic Change was Number 1 Enemy in 2000; Part VII. Presidential Election in 2002; Part VIII. What General Elections in 2005?; Part IX. Disharmony in the 2008 Harmonised Elections; Part X. Violence in the 2013 Elections.
Explores the history and significance of election violence in Zimbabwe from the 1980s to the present day.
Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai is Professor of Economic and Environmental History and Marie Curie Research Fellow at Basel University, Switzerland, and an Associate at the University of Zimbabwe and the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. His research concerns the interface of human economic, ecological and political activities, specifically in modern Zimbabwe, and Africa more generally. He is the recipient of ten prestigious research awards, including the Carson, Humboldt and Leverhulme Fellowships. He has previously published Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 1890-1980 (2009) and Zimbabwe: Poverty, Poverty, and Poverty (2010).
'This meticulous and compelling analysis reveals the Zimbabwean
government's violent manipulation of its democratic structures
under Robert Mugabe, whose status of heroic liberator was subsumed
by that of brutal oppressor. It is troubling but essential reading
for both generalists and specialists.' Anne Digby, Oxford Brookes
University
'This book provides for the first time a detailed and comprehensive
analysis of all elections in Zimbabwe since the country's
independence in 1980. It shows convincingly how the Mugabe regime
used politically motivated violence to cling to power. At the same
time terror eroded what was left of its democratic legitimation.'
Rita Schaefer, Author of In the Shadow of Apartheid
'A courageous, detailed and stimulating historical account of
election violence in Zimbabwe. Of special merit is Kwashirai's
bravery to tackle one of the hottest and riskiest subjects in
Zimbabwe's political terrain. This book is a must-read for everyone
fighting for a violence-free democratic world!' Takesure Taringana,
University of Zimbabwe
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