Busani Mpofu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Busani Mpofu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Busani |
| FAMILY NAME | Mpofu |
| SIGNATURE | MPOFU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3797-3650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The contribution of church women to community development in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This study analyses the contributions of, and challenges faced by, women in community development within church-based FBOs in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe. It interrogates the intersection of gender and community development within a church-based context using qualitative research methods. The study found that church women play pivotal roles in church-based community development programs, leveraging their positions in church stru…
Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices …
Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Nelson Mandela’s changing idea of South Africa
This article is a critical reflection on Nelson Mandela’s changing idea of South Africa as reflected in his widely known autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. It seeks to understand how he worked towards laying down a profound post-racial humanism based on a broader inclusive South African nationalism that transcended the narrow and exclusionist racial apartheid idea of South Africa. His autobiography is intertwined inextricably with the complex an…
The contribution of Archie Mafeje to the debate on land reform in Africa
Archie Mafeje raised pertinent issues that are still hampering land reform and agrarian development efforts in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). He rightly argued that land reform in Africa was wrongly premised on European, instead of African jurisprudence, that most countries are concerned with the modification of tenure, instead of executing a proper land reform, in the practical sense of land redistribution and the introduction of new forms of land te…
Articulating Regional and Ethnic Dissent? Bulawayo's Politicians and their Campaigns to Legalise Shebeens: 1980-2012
Public policy in relation to alcohol consumption is still a contested terrain in southern African cities characterised by a heavy-drinking culture that tends to manifest itself in the form of shebeens. Many such cities have well-known histories of colonial regulation that aimed to control alcohol production and consumption around African townships. This article analyses another socio-political trajectory that has been unfolding in Bulawayo, Zimba…
Perpetual ‘Outcasts’? Squatters in peri-urban Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
After independence in 1980 Zimbabwe’s cities experienced a proliferation in the number of squatter camps. This was because of the failure of the urban economy to offer adequate housing and jobs, leaving peri-urban space as the only sanctuary for the urban poor to live in and eke out a living informally. The promotion of rural ‘growth points’ by the national government to promote rural development to discourage migration to urban areas failed. Yet…
Perpetual ‘Outcasts’? Squatters in peri-urban Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
After independence in 1980 Zimbabwe’s cities experienced a proliferation in the number of squatter camps. This was because of the failure of the urban economy to offer adequate housing and jobs, leaving peri-urban space as the only sanctuary for the urban poor to live in and eke out a living informally. The promotion of rural ‘growth points’ by the national government to promote rural development to discourage migration to urban areas failed. Yet…
Undesirable’ Indians, Residential Segregation and the Ill-Fated Rise of the White ‘Housing Covenanters’ in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1930–1973
Legislated zoning as a strategy to enforce racial residential segregation in colonial Zimbabwe failed to prevent Indians from buying properties in white suburbs. This was because of the ambiguous colonial law that classified Indians as citizens yet, practically, they were blocked from enjoying privileges enjoyed by the white residents. For example, when Indians attempted to buy properties in European areas, they met stiff resistance, accused of b…
Operation 'Live Well' or 'Cry Well'? An Analysis of the 'Rebuilding' Programme in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This article analyses the effectiveness of the ‘rebuilding’ programme known as Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle or ‘Operation Live Well’ in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. The programme was the successor to the massive 2005 urban clean up operation that was codenamed Operation Murambatsvina. Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle was chaotic and further excluded the deserving victims of Operation Murambatsvina, some of whom were forcibly driven…
Articulating Regional and Ethnic Dissent? Bulawayo's Politicians and their Campaigns to Legalise Shebeens: 1980-2012
Public policy in relation to alcohol consumption is still a contested terrain in southern African cities characterised by a heavy-drinking culture that tends to manifest itself in the form of shebeens. Many such cities have well-known histories of colonial regulation that aimed to control alcohol production and consumption around African townships. This article analyses another socio-political trajectory that has been unfolding in Bulawayo, Zimba…
Undesirable’ Indians, Residential Segregation and the Ill-Fated Rise of the White ‘Housing Covenanters’ in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1930–1973
Legislated zoning as a strategy to enforce racial residential segregation in colonial Zimbabwe failed to prevent Indians from buying properties in white suburbs. This was because of the ambiguous colonial law that classified Indians as citizens yet, practically, they were blocked from enjoying privileges enjoyed by the white residents. For example, when Indians attempted to buy properties in European areas, they met stiff resistance, accused of b…
Operation 'Live Well' or 'Cry Well'? An Analysis of the 'Rebuilding' Programme in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This article analyses the effectiveness of the ‘rebuilding’ programme known as Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle or ‘Operation Live Well’ in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. The programme was the successor to the massive 2005 urban clean up operation that was codenamed Operation Murambatsvina. Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle was chaotic and further excluded the deserving victims of Operation Murambatsvina, some of whom were forcibly driven…
Undesirable’ Indians, Residential Segregation and the Ill-Fated Rise of the White ‘Housing Covenanters’ in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1930–1973
Legislated zoning as a strategy to enforce racial residential segregation in colonial Zimbabwe failed to prevent Indians from buying properties in white suburbs. This was because of the ambiguous colonial law that classified Indians as citizens yet, practically, they were blocked from enjoying privileges enjoyed by the white residents. For example, when Indians attempted to buy properties in European areas, they met stiff resistance, accused of b…
Operation 'Live Well' or 'Cry Well'? An Analysis of the 'Rebuilding' Programme in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This article analyses the effectiveness of the ‘rebuilding’ programme known as Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle or ‘Operation Live Well’ in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. The programme was the successor to the massive 2005 urban clean up operation that was codenamed Operation Murambatsvina. Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle was chaotic and further excluded the deserving victims of Operation Murambatsvina, some of whom were forcibly driven…
Perpetual ‘Outcasts’? Squatters in peri-urban Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
After independence in 1980 Zimbabwe’s cities experienced a proliferation in the number of squatter camps. This was because of the failure of the urban economy to offer adequate housing and jobs, leaving peri-urban space as the only sanctuary for the urban poor to live in and eke out a living informally. The promotion of rural ‘growth points’ by the national government to promote rural development to discourage migration to urban areas failed. Yet…
Perpetual ‘Outcasts’? Squatters in peri-urban Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
After independence in 1980 Zimbabwe’s cities experienced a proliferation in the number of squatter camps. This was because of the failure of the urban economy to offer adequate housing and jobs, leaving peri-urban space as the only sanctuary for the urban poor to live in and eke out a living informally. The promotion of rural ‘growth points’ by the national government to promote rural development to discourage migration to urban areas failed. Yet…
The contribution of Archie Mafeje to the debate on land reform in Africa
Archie Mafeje raised pertinent issues that are still hampering land reform and agrarian development efforts in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). He rightly argued that land reform in Africa was wrongly premised on European, instead of African jurisprudence, that most countries are concerned with the modification of tenure, instead of executing a proper land reform, in the practical sense of land redistribution and the introduction of new forms of land te…
Articulating Regional and Ethnic Dissent? Bulawayo's Politicians and their Campaigns to Legalise Shebeens: 1980-2012
Public policy in relation to alcohol consumption is still a contested terrain in southern African cities characterised by a heavy-drinking culture that tends to manifest itself in the form of shebeens. Many such cities have well-known histories of colonial regulation that aimed to control alcohol production and consumption around African townships. This article analyses another socio-political trajectory that has been unfolding in Bulawayo, Zimba…
Nelson Mandela’s changing idea of South Africa
This article is a critical reflection on Nelson Mandela’s changing idea of South Africa as reflected in his widely known autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. It seeks to understand how he worked towards laying down a profound post-racial humanism based on a broader inclusive South African nationalism that transcended the narrow and exclusionist racial apartheid idea of South Africa. His autobiography is intertwined inextricably with the complex an…
Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices …
The contribution of church women to community development in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This study analyses the contributions of, and challenges faced by, women in community development within church-based FBOs in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe. It interrogates the intersection of gender and community development within a church-based context using qualitative research methods. The study found that church women play pivotal roles in church-based community development programs, leveraging their positions in church stru…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)