Zimbos Never Die? : : Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s To 2015.

Zimbos Never Die? : : Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s To 2015.

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.

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Superior document:African Social Studies Series ; v.47
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Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu.
TeilnehmendeR:
Kushinga Makombe, Eric.
Chimhete, Nathaniel.
Nyambara, Pius.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:African Social Studies Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (380 pages)
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Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Interviews
  • 7 Hyper-Inflation and Social Security Provision in Zimbabwe, 2000-2009
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Hyper-Inflationary Environment
  • 3 Impact on Contributions
  • 4 Impact on Beneficiaries and Benefits
  • 5 WCIF Beneficiaries and Benefits
  • 6 Survival Strategies Adopted by the NSSA
  • 7 Financial and Investment Strategies
  • 8 Corporate Services and Human Resource Strategies
  • 9 Conclusion
  • 8 Policing the State: The Army and the Preservation of 'Peace and Order' in Zimbabwe, c. 1997-2008
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Historiographical Reflections and Methodology
  • 3 Civil-Military Relations, 1980-1999
  • 4 Sovereignty, the Final Push and Army Policing Duties, 2003
  • 5 The 2008 Elections and Army Violence
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Court Cases
  • 9 Banking Institutions' Survival Strategies
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background.
  • 3 The Operating Environment and Role of the RBZ
  • 4 Banking Functions and Regulation: Statements by Zimbabwe Bank Officials
  • 5 Beyond the Local: International Sentiments (WB, IMF and the ADB)
  • 6 A Deep-Seated Crisis
  • 7 Remittances
  • 8 Zimbabwean Banking Institutions and the Rise of 'Money Burning'
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Interviews
  • 10 'From Zero to Hero'?: Economic Crisis, the Zimbabwean State and Currency Redenomination
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Zimbabwean Economic and Political Context
  • 3 The RBZ and the Zimbabwean Economic Crisis: Operation Sunrise or Sunset?
  • 4 The Currency Crisis and Redenomination: A Hydra-Headed Monster
  • 5 Mechanics of Currency Redenomination
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 11 'Reviving the Education Sector?'
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Context and Overview of Incentives and the Education Sector
  • 3 The State of the Education Sector prior to the Introduction of Monetary Incentives
  • 4 The Application of the Incentive System: Circular Minute 5 of 2009
  • 5 The Impact of the Incentive System in HUS
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Interviews
  • Part 3 Borders and Survival
  • 12 Migrant Discourses
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Transnationalism
  • 3 Return
  • 4 Background
  • 5 The Economic and Political Development of Zimbabwe Since Independence
  • 6 Data Collection and the Research Process
  • 7 Narratives of 'Success': Skilled and Unskilled Migrants Who Have Returned or Intend to Return to Zimbabwe to Live Out Their Retirement
  • 8 Unskilled and Successful Migrants
  • 9 Perceptions and Realities: Life in the UK
  • 10 Success as defined by the Ability to Secure Generational Access to the UK
  • 11 Migrants Who are Perceived to Have Disappointed Their Sponsors and Relatives
  • 12 Marrying 'Badly'
  • 13 Appearances of Success: Marital Strain and Separate Living and Working as a Solution to Marital Problems.
  • 13.1 D and J: Spouses Living and Working in Different Cities in the UK
  • 13.2 J2 and A2: Spouses Working and Living in Different Cities in the UK
  • 14 Conclusion
  • 13 Human and Commodity Smuggling across the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border, 2000-2009
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Crisis in Zimbabwe and the Rise of Smuggling
  • 3 Borderlands and Smuggling: A Conceptual and Historical Overview
  • 4 Border Jumping and People and Goods Smuggling: Actors and Clients
  • 5 Commodity Smuggling at Beitbridge Border Post
  • 6 The State Response to Smuggling
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Interviews
  • 14 The Dynamics of Cotton
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background: Contextualising Cross-Border Trade
  • 3 Cotton Production in Zimbabwe and Mozambique: Key Players
  • 4 The Allure of the US Dollar: Cotton 'Smuggling' along the Border
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Interviews
  • Index.

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