Enock Ndawana
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enock Ndawana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enock |
| FAMILY NAME | Ndawana |
| SIGNATURE | NDAWANA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7159-2136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Zimbabwe
This article seeks to unpack the nuanc es of violence in Zimbabwe’s artisanal gold mining sector and how it impacts the wider community. Drawing on data gathered from Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews, the findings indicate that violence in the artisanal gold mining sector is primarily sustained by eco nomic exclusion, a weak regulatory environment, and corrupt security arrangements. To this end, the study utilizes the ration…
Political insecurity and citizens’ responses in contemporary Zimbabwe
Digital technology and its implications for peacebuilding in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Militarisation and Political (In)security in Contemporary Zimbabwe
China’s security force assistance in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe and its implications for peacebuilding
Empowering Perpetrators and Letting Down Victims? Social Media and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines how digital technology, especially social media platforms, shaped the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) in Zimbabwe during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Informed by the social identity model of deindividuation effects theory and based on both primary and secondary sources, it argues that the use of social media influenced GBV in Zimbabwe in both negative and positive ways. The study mainly found that positively, soc…
Youth participation in Zimbabwe's electoral processes post-2008
This article discusses how the youth participate in electoral processes in contemporary Zimbabwe and the concomitant implications for peacebuilding. It is based on the case study of Harare covering the post-2008 period and data drawn from both primary and secondary sources. Employing the postmaterialist theory, the article argues that though destructive tendencies remained, Zimbabwean youth have mainly participated in electoral processes in benef…
Migration and Xenophobia in Southern Africa
Scholarship on xenophobia in Africa in general and Southern Africa primarily attributes its endurance to a combination of factors. These include conflict and national, regional, and global economic inequalities that produce xenophobic dispositions deriving from the fear of criminal threats, diseases, and competition for limited resources, public services, and job opportunities. Xenophobia in Southern Africa has expressed itself in both violent an…
The Potential Role of Social Media in Peacebuilding in Zimbabwe
This article uses securitisation theory to examine the Zimbabwean government's handling of protests and protesters’ use of social media. It is based on the case study of Harare and data gathered from both primary and secondary sources. The article argues that securitisation of the right to protest in Zimbabwe forecloses opportunities for engagement, which negatively affects peace and development. It asserts that social media platforms’ capacity t…
Militarisation and State Capacity in Zimbabwe
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore the interface between militarisation and state capacity, and through that critique the emancipatory potential of the human security concept. It argues that militarisation undermines state capacity to provide emancipatory security as envisioned in the human security concept. A militarised state is severely incapacitated and challenged to deliver emancipatory security because it lacks the functional…
Zanu(PF)'s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000-2018
The Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU[PF]) regime’s survival strategies have been misleadingly presented as relying mainly upon political violence. This neglects analysis focusing on the ZANU(PF) regime’s non-violent survival strategies, which have also been key to its longevity. While a growing body of literature discusses ZANU(PF) non-violent strategies, including patriotic history, cultural nationalism and provision of la…
‘Comrade’
This article examines the development of militarisation in the liberation movements from the 1960s to 1979. It argues that the militarisation of politics and the state that would dominate Zimbabwe in the post-colonial period has its roots in both the Rhodesian state and the liberation movements. It asserts that the Zimbabwean state was militarised at birth primarily because the liberation movements had the military dominating politics, a process …
State monopoly on urban transport system and human (in)security in Harare during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study discusses the human security costs and benefits generated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic-induced state monopoly on the urban public transport system in Zimbabwe through the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) since March 2020. Using empirical evidence from Harare, it argues that the ZUPCO initiative had far-reaching safety and security implications on urban residents’ lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found th…
Illegal street vending and national security in Harare, Zimbabwe
The purpose of this article is to examine the link between political and socio-economic dynamics of illegal street vending and national security in Zimbabwe using the case of Harare. Scholarship has increasingly focused on the interface between the urban informal economy and politics in Zimbabwe. However, the nexus between illegal street vending and national security emerges as a major gulf which this article attempts to fill. Using the human sec…
When militarisation endangered both human and state security
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore how militarisation endangers both human and state security. While militarisation in Zimbabwe manifested itself in several ways, this study focuses on prioritising military solutions to most of the real or perceived security problems in the country between 2000 and 2008. Using data collected through review of available literature and interviews with officials in the public and private sectors, the …
The military and democratisation in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
This article discusses the continued dominance of the Zimbabwean military in the political developments in the country. It is the product of data collected through review of available literature and interviews with officials in both the public and private sectors. The article argues that the recent military intervention in electoral politics, the continuing factional wars within ZANU-PF, and the veto of parliamentary resolutions by Zimbabwe’s mil…
Education provision in the midst of a crisis
This article discusses the provision of education in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008 which occurred in the midst of a crisis. It is based on the case study of Harare and data collected from primary and secondary sources. It argues that the government’s capacity to ensure the provision of education was crippled by the economic meltdown generated by the economic structural adjustment programme and political violence among other challenges that emerg…
Ignore culture in counterinsurgency at your own Peril
This article discusses the Rhodesian Front regime propaganda warfare strategy during Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. It uses the case of the Chilonga area of Chiredzi located in the south-east of Zimbabwe to demonstrate that propaganda warfare was introduced as a measure to counter guerrilla infiltration and civilian cooperation with them. Drawing on ideas of military anthropology vis-à-vis the importance of cultural awareness in counterinsurgency,…
The military and democratization
Employing the notion of reserve domains of power, this article considers the relationship between the military and democracy focusing on the Egyptian and Zimbabwean experiences. It examines the actions of the Egyptian military and its decision to desist from brutally repressing the protesters during the Arab Spring against Mubarak but doing the opposite against Morsi. It also discusses the actions of the Zimbabwean military and its decision to in…
Sacrificing urban governance at the altar of political expediency
This article uses the case of illegal street vending in Harare to explore the interface between urban governance and politics. Drawing on the ideas of urban governance and informal governance, it illustrates how polarisation between the opposition political party Movement for Democratic Change-dominated municipal council and the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front-led government is affecting governance in general and in particular Har…
African Diaspora Women’s Narratives
(2018). African Diaspora Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 192-194
Dictators and democracy in African development
In Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria, A. Carl LeVan examines the place of veto players in determining development outcomes in infor
Regime-change agenda
This article discusses the role of the United States of America in the failure of the democratic revolution in Egypt during the Arab Spring. While appreciating the role of internal actors and the domestic dynamics, it demonstrates that regime change in Egypt was largely a consequence and a reflection of the US’s interests in Egypt and the region in general. It argues that the seemingly successful removal of the Hosni Mubarak regime by popular upr…
Women's Rights in Jeopardy
This study asserts that women's rights are far from being recognized in South Sudan despite its efforts to include the rights of women in the Transitional Constitution after its attainment of independence from Sudan in 2011. While the article acknowledges the traditional modernization theory and cultural sovereignty theory, it engages international human rights standards as its conceptual framework. Using documentary research methodology involvin…
Regional mediation strategy
The growth and survival of the field of conflict resolution can only be attained if practice is used to generate theory, rather than a reliance on the current situation where theory attempts to direct practice. Some conflict resolution practitioners believe that theory and practice cannot be separated. This article evaluates the art of mediation using Zimbabwe as a case study, where the strategy was used in an attempt to resolve the Zimbabwean co…
The military and democratisation in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
This article discusses the continued dominance of the Zimbabwean military in the political developments in the country. It is the product of data collected through review of available literature and interviews with officials in both the public and private sectors. The article argues that the recent military intervention in electoral politics, the continuing factional wars within ZANU-PF, and the veto of parliamentary resolutions by Zimbabwe’s mil…
Sacrificing urban governance at the altar of political expediency
This article uses the case of illegal street vending in Harare to explore the interface between urban governance and politics. Drawing on the ideas of urban governance and informal governance, it illustrates how polarisation between the opposition political party Movement for Democratic Change-dominated municipal council and the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front-led government is affecting governance in general and in particular Har…
The Potential Role of Social Media in Peacebuilding in Zimbabwe
This article uses securitisation theory to examine the Zimbabwean government's handling of protests and protesters’ use of social media. It is based on the case study of Harare and data gathered from both primary and secondary sources. The article argues that securitisation of the right to protest in Zimbabwe forecloses opportunities for engagement, which negatively affects peace and development. It asserts that social media platforms’ capacity t…
Ignore culture in counterinsurgency at your own Peril
This article discusses the Rhodesian Front regime propaganda warfare strategy during Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. It uses the case of the Chilonga area of Chiredzi located in the south-east of Zimbabwe to demonstrate that propaganda warfare was introduced as a measure to counter guerrilla infiltration and civilian cooperation with them. Drawing on ideas of military anthropology vis-à-vis the importance of cultural awareness in counterinsurgency,…
Regional mediation strategy
The growth and survival of the field of conflict resolution can only be attained if practice is used to generate theory, rather than a reliance on the current situation where theory attempts to direct practice. Some conflict resolution practitioners believe that theory and practice cannot be separated. This article evaluates the art of mediation using Zimbabwe as a case study, where the strategy was used in an attempt to resolve the Zimbabwean co…
When militarisation endangered both human and state security
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore how militarisation endangers both human and state security. While militarisation in Zimbabwe manifested itself in several ways, this study focuses on prioritising military solutions to most of the real or perceived security problems in the country between 2000 and 2008. Using data collected through review of available literature and interviews with officials in the public and private sectors, the …
Militarisation and Political (In)security in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Militarisation and State Capacity in Zimbabwe
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore the interface between militarisation and state capacity, and through that critique the emancipatory potential of the human security concept. It argues that militarisation undermines state capacity to provide emancipatory security as envisioned in the human security concept. A militarised state is severely incapacitated and challenged to deliver emancipatory security because it lacks the functional…
Zanu(PF)'s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000-2018
The Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU[PF]) regime’s survival strategies have been misleadingly presented as relying mainly upon political violence. This neglects analysis focusing on the ZANU(PF) regime’s non-violent survival strategies, which have also been key to its longevity. While a growing body of literature discusses ZANU(PF) non-violent strategies, including patriotic history, cultural nationalism and provision of la…
Education provision in the midst of a crisis
This article discusses the provision of education in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008 which occurred in the midst of a crisis. It is based on the case study of Harare and data collected from primary and secondary sources. It argues that the government’s capacity to ensure the provision of education was crippled by the economic meltdown generated by the economic structural adjustment programme and political violence among other challenges that emerg…
The military and democratization
Employing the notion of reserve domains of power, this article considers the relationship between the military and democracy focusing on the Egyptian and Zimbabwean experiences. It examines the actions of the Egyptian military and its decision to desist from brutally repressing the protesters during the Arab Spring against Mubarak but doing the opposite against Morsi. It also discusses the actions of the Zimbabwean military and its decision to in…
Women's Rights in Jeopardy
This study asserts that women's rights are far from being recognized in South Sudan despite its efforts to include the rights of women in the Transitional Constitution after its attainment of independence from Sudan in 2011. While the article acknowledges the traditional modernization theory and cultural sovereignty theory, it engages international human rights standards as its conceptual framework. Using documentary research methodology involvin…
Regional mediation strategy
The growth and survival of the field of conflict resolution can only be attained if practice is used to generate theory, rather than a reliance on the current situation where theory attempts to direct practice. Some conflict resolution practitioners believe that theory and practice cannot be separated. This article evaluates the art of mediation using Zimbabwe as a case study, where the strategy was used in an attempt to resolve the Zimbabwean co…
Regime-change agenda
This article discusses the role of the United States of America in the failure of the democratic revolution in Egypt during the Arab Spring. While appreciating the role of internal actors and the domestic dynamics, it demonstrates that regime change in Egypt was largely a consequence and a reflection of the US’s interests in Egypt and the region in general. It argues that the seemingly successful removal of the Hosni Mubarak regime by popular upr…
Women's Rights in Jeopardy
This study asserts that women's rights are far from being recognized in South Sudan despite its efforts to include the rights of women in the Transitional Constitution after its attainment of independence from Sudan in 2011. While the article acknowledges the traditional modernization theory and cultural sovereignty theory, it engages international human rights standards as its conceptual framework. Using documentary research methodology involvin…
The military and democratization
Employing the notion of reserve domains of power, this article considers the relationship between the military and democracy focusing on the Egyptian and Zimbabwean experiences. It examines the actions of the Egyptian military and its decision to desist from brutally repressing the protesters during the Arab Spring against Mubarak but doing the opposite against Morsi. It also discusses the actions of the Zimbabwean military and its decision to in…
Sacrificing urban governance at the altar of political expediency
This article uses the case of illegal street vending in Harare to explore the interface between urban governance and politics. Drawing on the ideas of urban governance and informal governance, it illustrates how polarisation between the opposition political party Movement for Democratic Change-dominated municipal council and the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front-led government is affecting governance in general and in particular Har…
African Diaspora Women’s Narratives
(2018). African Diaspora Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 192-194
Dictators and democracy in African development
In Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria, A. Carl LeVan examines the place of veto players in determining development outcomes in infor
Education provision in the midst of a crisis
This article discusses the provision of education in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008 which occurred in the midst of a crisis. It is based on the case study of Harare and data collected from primary and secondary sources. It argues that the government’s capacity to ensure the provision of education was crippled by the economic meltdown generated by the economic structural adjustment programme and political violence among other challenges that emerg…
Ignore culture in counterinsurgency at your own Peril
This article discusses the Rhodesian Front regime propaganda warfare strategy during Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. It uses the case of the Chilonga area of Chiredzi located in the south-east of Zimbabwe to demonstrate that propaganda warfare was introduced as a measure to counter guerrilla infiltration and civilian cooperation with them. Drawing on ideas of military anthropology vis-à-vis the importance of cultural awareness in counterinsurgency,…
Illegal street vending and national security in Harare, Zimbabwe
The purpose of this article is to examine the link between political and socio-economic dynamics of illegal street vending and national security in Zimbabwe using the case of Harare. Scholarship has increasingly focused on the interface between the urban informal economy and politics in Zimbabwe. However, the nexus between illegal street vending and national security emerges as a major gulf which this article attempts to fill. Using the human sec…
When militarisation endangered both human and state security
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore how militarisation endangers both human and state security. While militarisation in Zimbabwe manifested itself in several ways, this study focuses on prioritising military solutions to most of the real or perceived security problems in the country between 2000 and 2008. Using data collected through review of available literature and interviews with officials in the public and private sectors, the …
The military and democratisation in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
This article discusses the continued dominance of the Zimbabwean military in the political developments in the country. It is the product of data collected through review of available literature and interviews with officials in both the public and private sectors. The article argues that the recent military intervention in electoral politics, the continuing factional wars within ZANU-PF, and the veto of parliamentary resolutions by Zimbabwe’s mil…
‘Comrade’
This article examines the development of militarisation in the liberation movements from the 1960s to 1979. It argues that the militarisation of politics and the state that would dominate Zimbabwe in the post-colonial period has its roots in both the Rhodesian state and the liberation movements. It asserts that the Zimbabwean state was militarised at birth primarily because the liberation movements had the military dominating politics, a process …
State monopoly on urban transport system and human (in)security in Harare during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study discusses the human security costs and benefits generated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic-induced state monopoly on the urban public transport system in Zimbabwe through the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) since March 2020. Using empirical evidence from Harare, it argues that the ZUPCO initiative had far-reaching safety and security implications on urban residents’ lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found th…
Migration and Xenophobia in Southern Africa
Scholarship on xenophobia in Africa in general and Southern Africa primarily attributes its endurance to a combination of factors. These include conflict and national, regional, and global economic inequalities that produce xenophobic dispositions deriving from the fear of criminal threats, diseases, and competition for limited resources, public services, and job opportunities. Xenophobia in Southern Africa has expressed itself in both violent an…
The Potential Role of Social Media in Peacebuilding in Zimbabwe
This article uses securitisation theory to examine the Zimbabwean government's handling of protests and protesters’ use of social media. It is based on the case study of Harare and data gathered from both primary and secondary sources. The article argues that securitisation of the right to protest in Zimbabwe forecloses opportunities for engagement, which negatively affects peace and development. It asserts that social media platforms’ capacity t…
Militarisation and State Capacity in Zimbabwe
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore the interface between militarisation and state capacity, and through that critique the emancipatory potential of the human security concept. It argues that militarisation undermines state capacity to provide emancipatory security as envisioned in the human security concept. A militarised state is severely incapacitated and challenged to deliver emancipatory security because it lacks the functional…
Zanu(PF)'s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000-2018
The Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU[PF]) regime’s survival strategies have been misleadingly presented as relying mainly upon political violence. This neglects analysis focusing on the ZANU(PF) regime’s non-violent survival strategies, which have also been key to its longevity. While a growing body of literature discusses ZANU(PF) non-violent strategies, including patriotic history, cultural nationalism and provision of la…
Empowering Perpetrators and Letting Down Victims? Social Media and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines how digital technology, especially social media platforms, shaped the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) in Zimbabwe during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Informed by the social identity model of deindividuation effects theory and based on both primary and secondary sources, it argues that the use of social media influenced GBV in Zimbabwe in both negative and positive ways. The study mainly found that positively, soc…
Youth participation in Zimbabwe's electoral processes post-2008
This article discusses how the youth participate in electoral processes in contemporary Zimbabwe and the concomitant implications for peacebuilding. It is based on the case study of Harare covering the post-2008 period and data drawn from both primary and secondary sources. Employing the postmaterialist theory, the article argues that though destructive tendencies remained, Zimbabwean youth have mainly participated in electoral processes in benef…
Digital technology and its implications for peacebuilding in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Militarisation and Political (In)security in Contemporary Zimbabwe
China’s security force assistance in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe and its implications for peacebuilding
Zimbabwe
This article seeks to unpack the nuanc es of violence in Zimbabwe’s artisanal gold mining sector and how it impacts the wider community. Drawing on data gathered from Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews, the findings indicate that violence in the artisanal gold mining sector is primarily sustained by eco nomic exclusion, a weak regulatory environment, and corrupt security arrangements. To this end, the study utilizes the ration…
Political insecurity and citizens’ responses in contemporary Zimbabwe
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