| Description |
1 online resource (380 p.) |
| Series |
African Social Studies Series ; v.47 |
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African social studies series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Images, Figures and Tables -- Images -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Towards the Zimbabwean Crises -- 1 Step 1: The Illusion of Growth, 1980-1989 -- 2 Step 2: Structural Adjustment and Economic Delinquency, 1990-1999 -- 3 Step 3: War Veterans' Gratuities and the Democratic Republic of Congo War -- 4 Step 4: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme and Quasi-Fiscal Economics -- 5 Step 5: Pulling out of the GNU -- 6 Auditing the Costs: New Lows and New Records -- 7 Zimbos Never Die? A Conceptual Viewpoint -- 8 Conclusion |
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Part 1 Surviving on the Margins: Informal Spaces -- 2 Mupedzanhamo: Spatial Struggles and Displacements, Harare Flea Markets c. 1994-2013 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Spatial History of Flea Markets in Harare, 1994-2005 -- 3 Mupedzanhamo, the Music Industry and 'Operation Drive Out the Dirt' -- 4 Flea Markets, Operation Murambatsvina and Urban Displacements, 2005 -- 5 City-State Relations, Captive Support Bases, and Struggles over Flea Markets, 2002-2013 -- 6 Ghetto Fashionistas: Mupedzanhamo Markets and Ideas of Femininity -- 7 Conclusion -- Interviews |
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3 Gold Panning and Survival in Insiza District, 1990-2009 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Rise of Gold Panning in Insiza District -- 3 The Penalty for Survival -- 4 Conclusion -- Interviews -- Additional Sources -- 4 Vending as Survival: Street Trading in Harare's CBD, 1990s to 2015 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Crisis to Crisis: Post-Independence Disillusionment -- 3 Negotiating Market Woes: From Controlled to Illegal Vending, the 1990s to 2000 -- 4 Intensifying Crisis and the Changing Vendor Economy in the New Millennium -- 5 The Street is a Jungle: Battling Losses and the Police |
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6 City Authorities and the Vending 'Menace' -- 7 Conclusion -- Interviews -- 5 Small-Scale Tobacco Growers in Mashonaland East, 2003-2013 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The FTLRP and the Origins of Smallholder Settler Farmers in Mashonaland East -- 3 Tobacco Contract Farming in Zimbabwe: The Wider Context -- 4 Beating the Odds -- 4 Successful Farmers: Case Studies -- 4.1 John Munande -- 4.2 Fabrison Jonasi -- 4.3 Anold Chidendere -- 4.4 Morris Chinoda -- 5 Smallholder Tobacco Production and the Environment -- 6 Measures to Arrest Deforestation -- 7 Conclusion -- Interviews |
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Part 2 State and Non-State Institutions in Zimbabwe's Challenged Economy -- 6 Missionary Public Health Service in Zimbabwe under Economic Fragility, 1990-2013 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mission Hospitals in the Colonial Period -- 3 The Post-Colonial State and Public Health Delivery in Zimbabwe, 1980-1990 -- 4 Economic Liberalisation and Health Delivery in the 1990s -- 5 Crisis, Mission Hospitals and Health Delivery, 2000-2013 -- 6 Human Resources Crisis, Drug Shortages and the Urban-Rural Drift -- 7 Budgetary Crisis and Public Health Funding -- 8 Financing HIV/AIDS Programmes -- 9 Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book provides empirical evidence that answers the question, how have Zimbabweans survived? The Title Zimbos Never Die? is deliberately a question mark because we do not seek to valorise or overstate Zimbabweans' resilience, for in this battle for survival, some succumbed |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Interviews |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kushinga Makombe, Eric
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Chimhete, Nathaniel
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Nyambara, Pius
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| ISBN |
9789004547339 |
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9004547339 |
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