Lotti Nkomo
Biographic Data
| ID | 101834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lotti Nkomo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lotti |
| FAMILY NAME | Nkomo |
| SIGNATURE | NKOMO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8365-4453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names
Drawing on a range of source material that is in public domain, chiefly newspapers and Parliamentary Debates, this article examines the efforts at renaming government schools in early 2000s in Zimbabwe, the debates surrounding the renaming and the results thereof. The renaming of schools by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government aimed at replacing names that appeared to celebrate colonialism with those that expre…
Geographies of terror, harvest of fear
The emergence of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, in 1999 radically reconfigured Zimbabwe's political landscape. MDC greatly challenged the electoral dominance the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had enjoyed since independence in 1980. As literature on Zimbabwe's 'crisis' has emphasised, throughout the 2000s ZANU-PF was predominantly preoccupied with repelling this challenge. Central to these efforts were …
Politics from the Pits
In post-2000s Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has become one of the major economic activities that provides income and livelihood opportunities to millions of people. The article attempts to make sense of how such mining activities intertwined with the country’s political economy and became implicated in shaping the dynamics of local and national politics. Taking the case of Kwekwe district, situated at the heart of the cou…
Violence, Victimhood and Retaliation
This article is an empirical examination of 'victimhood' in the context of the widespread, deadly and destructive electoral violence that affected Zimbabwe in 2008. It contends that an examination of the behaviour of victims of state-sponsored political violence enhances our comprehension of 'victimhood' as a factor in the perpetuation of political violence. The victims were largely ignored by the justice system, the political leadership and the …
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953
A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford
The largely cordial relationship between Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa, established in the 1890s, instantly turned hostile at Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. This reconfiguration, marked by Harare’s termination of diplomatic contact with Pretoria, was due to divergent ideologies between apartheid South Africa and the black majoritarian Zimbabwean government. Shying away from the orthodox approach that emphasises the security and milit…
The Small Matter of “Sellouts”
This article explores the relationship between chiefs and the state in Zimbabwe's immediate post-independence years. Focusing on the period 1980 to 1985, it discusses how the advent of independence in 1980 engendered tensions between the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) government and chieftaincy. Through a series of legal and policy instruments, the new government transferred the little power chiefs had over grassroots l…
Winds of small change
In 1980, the independence government of Zimbabwe adopted a political and administrative policy which was hostile to chiefs. The charge was that chief taincy was backward, unproductive, undemocratic, and a “sellout” institution that had sided with the colonial system. Consequently, chieftaincy was relegated to the fringes of the state, whereby it lost its authority over grassroots judicial and land affairs, a key marker of its power and status. H…
Councils, Councillors and Profiteers
Studies of the land question in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) have demonstrated that land was an object of intense speculation. However, they have predominantly considered speculation on rural and agrarian land to the exclusion of urban areas. This article contributes to and expands on this scholarship by considering the largely missing urban dimension. It examines conflict between speculators and municipalities over urban land in Southern Rho…
Land, Migration and Belonging
The Southern Journal for Contemporary History is published by the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State. It is a national, academic and accredited journal which publishes academically outstanding articles of a contemporary historical or political nature. Only articles dealing with topics on sub-Saharan Africa and in particular South Africa since 1945 will be considered. All articles submitted are reviewed by at least two experts in …
Understanding Zimbabwe
(2017). Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. African Historical Review: Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 115-118
Politics from the Pits
In post-2000s Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has become one of the major economic activities that provides income and livelihood opportunities to millions of people. The article attempts to make sense of how such mining activities intertwined with the country’s political economy and became implicated in shaping the dynamics of local and national politics. Taking the case of Kwekwe district, situated at the heart of the cou…
Violence, Victimhood and Retaliation
This article is an empirical examination of 'victimhood' in the context of the widespread, deadly and destructive electoral violence that affected Zimbabwe in 2008. It contends that an examination of the behaviour of victims of state-sponsored political violence enhances our comprehension of 'victimhood' as a factor in the perpetuation of political violence. The victims were largely ignored by the justice system, the political leadership and the …
The Small Matter of “Sellouts”
This article explores the relationship between chiefs and the state in Zimbabwe's immediate post-independence years. Focusing on the period 1980 to 1985, it discusses how the advent of independence in 1980 engendered tensions between the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) government and chieftaincy. Through a series of legal and policy instruments, the new government transferred the little power chiefs had over grassroots l…
Understanding Zimbabwe
(2017). Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. African Historical Review: Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 115-118
Land, Migration and Belonging
The Southern Journal for Contemporary History is published by the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State. It is a national, academic and accredited journal which publishes academically outstanding articles of a contemporary historical or political nature. Only articles dealing with topics on sub-Saharan Africa and in particular South Africa since 1945 will be considered. All articles submitted are reviewed by at least two experts in …
Winds of small change
In 1980, the independence government of Zimbabwe adopted a political and administrative policy which was hostile to chiefs. The charge was that chief taincy was backward, unproductive, undemocratic, and a “sellout” institution that had sided with the colonial system. Consequently, chieftaincy was relegated to the fringes of the state, whereby it lost its authority over grassroots judicial and land affairs, a key marker of its power and status. H…
Councils, Councillors and Profiteers
Studies of the land question in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) have demonstrated that land was an object of intense speculation. However, they have predominantly considered speculation on rural and agrarian land to the exclusion of urban areas. This article contributes to and expands on this scholarship by considering the largely missing urban dimension. It examines conflict between speculators and municipalities over urban land in Southern Rho…
The Small Matter of “Sellouts”
This article explores the relationship between chiefs and the state in Zimbabwe's immediate post-independence years. Focusing on the period 1980 to 1985, it discusses how the advent of independence in 1980 engendered tensions between the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) government and chieftaincy. Through a series of legal and policy instruments, the new government transferred the little power chiefs had over grassroots l…
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953
A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford
The largely cordial relationship between Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa, established in the 1890s, instantly turned hostile at Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. This reconfiguration, marked by Harare’s termination of diplomatic contact with Pretoria, was due to divergent ideologies between apartheid South Africa and the black majoritarian Zimbabwean government. Shying away from the orthodox approach that emphasises the security and milit…
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names
Drawing on a range of source material that is in public domain, chiefly newspapers and Parliamentary Debates, this article examines the efforts at renaming government schools in early 2000s in Zimbabwe, the debates surrounding the renaming and the results thereof. The renaming of schools by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government aimed at replacing names that appeared to celebrate colonialism with those that expre…
Geographies of terror, harvest of fear
The emergence of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, in 1999 radically reconfigured Zimbabwe's political landscape. MDC greatly challenged the electoral dominance the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had enjoyed since independence in 1980. As literature on Zimbabwe's 'crisis' has emphasised, throughout the 2000s ZANU-PF was predominantly preoccupied with repelling this challenge. Central to these efforts were …
Politics from the Pits
In post-2000s Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has become one of the major economic activities that provides income and livelihood opportunities to millions of people. The article attempts to make sense of how such mining activities intertwined with the country’s political economy and became implicated in shaping the dynamics of local and national politics. Taking the case of Kwekwe district, situated at the heart of the cou…
Violence, Victimhood and Retaliation
This article is an empirical examination of 'victimhood' in the context of the widespread, deadly and destructive electoral violence that affected Zimbabwe in 2008. It contends that an examination of the behaviour of victims of state-sponsored political violence enhances our comprehension of 'victimhood' as a factor in the perpetuation of political violence. The victims were largely ignored by the justice system, the political leadership and the …
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