Wesley Mwatwara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley Mwatwara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Mwatwara |
| SIGNATURE | MWATWARA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7621-7693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zanu-PF, FAZ and the politics of hybrid governance in Gutu District in Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections
How ruling parties in competitive authoritarian regimes adapt their strategies to sustain power while evading accountability remains central to scholarly inquiry. Yet, little attention has been paid to the role of quasi-state actors in electoral manipulation or how citizens respond. Drawing on fieldwork in Gutu District, this study examines Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), a Government-Organised Non-Governmental Organisation (GONGO) aligned wit…
Human-Animal Relations and Livestock Disease Management in Postcolonial Zimbabwe, c.1980 to 2022
The history of livestock disease management strategies in colonial Zimbabwe has generally revealed uneven and racialised access to conventional veterinary facilities that favoured white- over black-owned livestock. In light of this context, this article examines the human-animal relationships that emerged in post-colonial Zimbabwe when access to such facilities was liberalised in a new era in which communal livestock owners still had broken inter…
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts
Pandemic crisis: Old repressions renewed amid anti-Covid-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, c.2020 - 2021
This study discusses how during the Covid-19 pandemic, government agents in Zimbabwe controlled and supervised Zimbabwean citizens through repressive methods that were meant to entrench the position of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. It posits that since Covid-19 took place in a conflictridden Zimbabwean environment, it paved the way for new conflicts to emerge while the existing ones were reshaped. Furthermore, it argues that Covid-19 offers an in…
Between violence and negotiation: Gold-rushes, gang violence, and negotiated access in artisanal gold mining along Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c .1980s–2020
This article examines how Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) operatives have become part of everyday life in Zimbabwe’s Honde Valley communities since the 1980s. While most studies of civil conflict and insurgency in African borderlands emphasise the predicaments of borderland communities, we examine how socio-economic and political dynamics in the Honde Valley borderlands challenge the dominant characterisations of borderlands as zones of p…
The "logic" of Renamo civil war violence: Trans-border communities and Renamo incursions in Eastern Zimbabwe, 1980s-1992
This study investigates the dynamics of civil war violence by Renamo forces among trans-border communities in Honde Valley from the early 1980s to 1992 when the Mozambican Civil War ended. In its venture to understand reasons given by ordinary people in Honde Valley for forging relationships with Renamo, this article does not seek to dismiss but to make sense of the violence. The article analyses the targets of violence to determine whether there…
Gathering Farmer-Pastoralist Livelihoods in Rhodesia: 1965-1980
This study analyses livelihoods and their sustainability among blacks in Northern Mount Darwin District (NMDD), Rhodesia, between 1965 and 1980. It explores livelihood streams gained from gathering multiple forest products, farming and keeping livestock in the context of severe land shortage. It examines major socio-economic challenges that were part and parcel of the exploitative colonial system: the international sanctions imposed on Rhodesia a…
Zimdancehall and the Peace Crisis in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has recently been facing serious challenges and threats to its peace and security as a result of deepening economic crisis. Civilians have taken to the streets and the first half of 2016 was characterized by protests. The crisis has its roots deeper in Zimbabwe’s postcolonial history, escalating with the adoption of a controversial land reform program in 2000. From hyper-inflation in 2008, the nation turned to a serious liquidity crunch …
Better Breeds?’ The Colonial State, Africans and the Cattle Quality Clause in Southern Rhodesia, c.1912–1930
Colonial officials, veterinarians and animal scientists in tropical Africa managed ‘native’ livestock whose physical and behavioural characteristics, preferred food, and disease resistance were understood to be very different from the corresponding animals of their homelands. Furthermore, they were faced with unfamiliar relationships and management patterns between indigenous humans and their domestic animals. However, existing scholarship on the…
It is no use advising us! Command us and we will obey: Livestock Management, Soil Conservation and the State in Southern Rhodesia, c.1930-50
This article examines state imposed centralisation and soil conservation policies as pursued by the Southern Rhodesian Department of Native Agriculture, and argues that these were at variance with the state's own veterinary policies. It argues that in the 1930s the state failed to deal with the contradictions caused by shifting and competing agendas between the Departments of Native Affairs, Native Development, Entomology and Veterinary Services.…
Even the calves must dip’: East Coast Fever, Africans and the Imposition of Dipping Tanks in Southern Rhodesia, c.1902–1930
This article utilises dipping tanks as a lens to understanding the relationship between African livestock owners and the colonial state. More specifically, it discusses how East Coast Fever influenced the introduction of the systematic dipping of livestock, and reshaped the nature of veterinary interactions in Southern Rhodesia in general, and the African reserves in particular. It draws on but challenges Colin Bundy's argument that from the late…
The tick was not slow to take advantage’: Conflicts in the Struggle Against East Coast Fever in Southern Rhodesia (1901–1920)
In 1901, Southern Africa had its first East Coast Fever outbreak which accounted for large cattle losses. As the veterinarians from all over the world worked to understand the disease, new ‘unscientific’ theories emerged from amongst the settler farmers and in the process added to the confusion that made the development of an effective drug difficult. In Southern Rhodesia, this disease led to severe economic losses, both to the government and to …
Better Breeds?’ The Colonial State, Africans and the Cattle Quality Clause in Southern Rhodesia, c.1912–1930
Colonial officials, veterinarians and animal scientists in tropical Africa managed ‘native’ livestock whose physical and behavioural characteristics, preferred food, and disease resistance were understood to be very different from the corresponding animals of their homelands. Furthermore, they were faced with unfamiliar relationships and management patterns between indigenous humans and their domestic animals. However, existing scholarship on the…
Between violence and negotiation: Gold-rushes, gang violence, and negotiated access in artisanal gold mining along Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
Zimdancehall and the Peace Crisis in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has recently been facing serious challenges and threats to its peace and security as a result of deepening economic crisis. Civilians have taken to the streets and the first half of 2016 was characterized by protests. The crisis has its roots deeper in Zimbabwe’s postcolonial history, escalating with the adoption of a controversial land reform program in 2000. From hyper-inflation in 2008, the nation turned to a serious liquidity crunch …
It is no use advising us! Command us and we will obey: Livestock Management, Soil Conservation and the State in Southern Rhodesia, c.1930-50
This article examines state imposed centralisation and soil conservation policies as pursued by the Southern Rhodesian Department of Native Agriculture, and argues that these were at variance with the state's own veterinary policies. It argues that in the 1930s the state failed to deal with the contradictions caused by shifting and competing agendas between the Departments of Native Affairs, Native Development, Entomology and Veterinary Services.…
Even the calves must dip’: East Coast Fever, Africans and the Imposition of Dipping Tanks in Southern Rhodesia, c.1902–1930
This article utilises dipping tanks as a lens to understanding the relationship between African livestock owners and the colonial state. More specifically, it discusses how East Coast Fever influenced the introduction of the systematic dipping of livestock, and reshaped the nature of veterinary interactions in Southern Rhodesia in general, and the African reserves in particular. It draws on but challenges Colin Bundy's argument that from the late…
The tick was not slow to take advantage’: Conflicts in the Struggle Against East Coast Fever in Southern Rhodesia (1901–1920)
In 1901, Southern Africa had its first East Coast Fever outbreak which accounted for large cattle losses. As the veterinarians from all over the world worked to understand the disease, new ‘unscientific’ theories emerged from amongst the settler farmers and in the process added to the confusion that made the development of an effective drug difficult. In Southern Rhodesia, this disease led to severe economic losses, both to the government and to …
Even the calves must dip’: East Coast Fever, Africans and the Imposition of Dipping Tanks in Southern Rhodesia, c.1902–1930
This article utilises dipping tanks as a lens to understanding the relationship between African livestock owners and the colonial state. More specifically, it discusses how East Coast Fever influenced the introduction of the systematic dipping of livestock, and reshaped the nature of veterinary interactions in Southern Rhodesia in general, and the African reserves in particular. It draws on but challenges Colin Bundy's argument that from the late…
It is no use advising us! Command us and we will obey: Livestock Management, Soil Conservation and the State in Southern Rhodesia, c.1930-50
This article examines state imposed centralisation and soil conservation policies as pursued by the Southern Rhodesian Department of Native Agriculture, and argues that these were at variance with the state's own veterinary policies. It argues that in the 1930s the state failed to deal with the contradictions caused by shifting and competing agendas between the Departments of Native Affairs, Native Development, Entomology and Veterinary Services.…
Better Breeds?’ The Colonial State, Africans and the Cattle Quality Clause in Southern Rhodesia, c.1912–1930
Colonial officials, veterinarians and animal scientists in tropical Africa managed ‘native’ livestock whose physical and behavioural characteristics, preferred food, and disease resistance were understood to be very different from the corresponding animals of their homelands. Furthermore, they were faced with unfamiliar relationships and management patterns between indigenous humans and their domestic animals. However, existing scholarship on the…
Zimdancehall and the Peace Crisis in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has recently been facing serious challenges and threats to its peace and security as a result of deepening economic crisis. Civilians have taken to the streets and the first half of 2016 was characterized by protests. The crisis has its roots deeper in Zimbabwe’s postcolonial history, escalating with the adoption of a controversial land reform program in 2000. From hyper-inflation in 2008, the nation turned to a serious liquidity crunch …
Gathering Farmer-Pastoralist Livelihoods in Rhodesia: 1965-1980
This study analyses livelihoods and their sustainability among blacks in Northern Mount Darwin District (NMDD), Rhodesia, between 1965 and 1980. It explores livelihood streams gained from gathering multiple forest products, farming and keeping livestock in the context of severe land shortage. It examines major socio-economic challenges that were part and parcel of the exploitative colonial system: the international sanctions imposed on Rhodesia a…
The "logic" of Renamo civil war violence: Trans-border communities and Renamo incursions in Eastern Zimbabwe, 1980s-1992
This study investigates the dynamics of civil war violence by Renamo forces among trans-border communities in Honde Valley from the early 1980s to 1992 when the Mozambican Civil War ended. In its venture to understand reasons given by ordinary people in Honde Valley for forging relationships with Renamo, this article does not seek to dismiss but to make sense of the violence. The article analyses the targets of violence to determine whether there…
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c .1980s–2020
This article examines how Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) operatives have become part of everyday life in Zimbabwe’s Honde Valley communities since the 1980s. While most studies of civil conflict and insurgency in African borderlands emphasise the predicaments of borderland communities, we examine how socio-economic and political dynamics in the Honde Valley borderlands challenge the dominant characterisations of borderlands as zones of p…
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts
Pandemic crisis: Old repressions renewed amid anti-Covid-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, c.2020 - 2021
This study discusses how during the Covid-19 pandemic, government agents in Zimbabwe controlled and supervised Zimbabwean citizens through repressive methods that were meant to entrench the position of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. It posits that since Covid-19 took place in a conflictridden Zimbabwean environment, it paved the way for new conflicts to emerge while the existing ones were reshaped. Furthermore, it argues that Covid-19 offers an in…
Between violence and negotiation: Gold-rushes, gang violence, and negotiated access in artisanal gold mining along Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
Human-Animal Relations and Livestock Disease Management in Postcolonial Zimbabwe, c.1980 to 2022
The history of livestock disease management strategies in colonial Zimbabwe has generally revealed uneven and racialised access to conventional veterinary facilities that favoured white- over black-owned livestock. In light of this context, this article examines the human-animal relationships that emerged in post-colonial Zimbabwe when access to such facilities was liberalised in a new era in which communal livestock owners still had broken inter…
Zanu-PF, FAZ and the politics of hybrid governance in Gutu District in Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections
How ruling parties in competitive authoritarian regimes adapt their strategies to sustain power while evading accountability remains central to scholarly inquiry. Yet, little attention has been paid to the role of quasi-state actors in electoral manipulation or how citizens respond. Drawing on fieldwork in Gutu District, this study examines Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), a Government-Organised Non-Governmental Organisation (GONGO) aligned wit…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · State (computer science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works)