Victor Muchineripi Gwande
Biographic Data
| ID | 679330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Muchineripi Gwande |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor Muchineripi |
| FAMILY NAME | Gwande |
| SIGNATURE | GWANDE V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3952-9369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Propping up the rebellion’
This paper examines the role of big business as the linchpin of late colonialism in Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) during its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) years between 1966 and 1979. After Rhodesia’s rebellion against Britain in 1965, London and the world, through the United Nations, responded by imposing sanctions against Salisbury, hoping to bring it to legality quickly. However, Rhodesia survived the expected impact of sanctions…
African Entrepreneurship in urban colonial Zimbabwe
This paper examines the importance of Highfield to the African entrepreneurship history of colonial Zimbabwe, then known as Southern Rhodesia. The Southern Rhodesia colonial state established the township of Highfield in its capital city, Salisbury (now Harare), in 1936 as part of its spatial and racial segregation policy. The policy made Africans temporary residents in the urban areas. However, the post-Second World War industrial growth forced …
Cooperation and Competition
This paper discusses relations between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia from 1939 to 1948. The article begins in 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War brought mixed fortunes for the two neighbours. For Southern Rhodesia, which relied mainly on imported manufactured goods from the United Kingdom, the war induced shortages resulting in huge domestic demand. Shortages stimulated calls for local industry to fill the vacuum. Consequently, a…
Autonomy for Our Economy’
This article revisits the impact and legacy of the 1922 referendum and the subsequent granting of responsible government status to Southern Rhodesia in shaping the future economic trajectory of the self-governing colony. Governed through the chartered British South Africa Company (BSAC) from 1890, Southern Rhodesia developed as a typical colony dependent on the export of raw materials, the import of manufactured goods, external capital for econom…
The Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–1963
This article details how and why officials in the United States and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland developed policies and initiatives to promote US capital investments. It analyzes these policies in the context of decolonization, white minority rule, and the Cold War in Africa. It further shows how US business interests, especially in the mining industry, increased their investments and influenced policy. Drawing from Zimbabwean archive…
To build a just and fair society”
popularised the utopia of building a rainbow nation. The idea was to bring \ntogether all people of South Africa, in all their diversity, to work towards a \nnew, common, non-racial and equal society. Indeed, the vision of these \ntwo struggle heroes was codified and became a core value of South Africa’s \n1996 Constitution. Using the case of the Federation of South African Trade \nUnions (Fosatu) active in the period 1979-1985, this article demo…
From state corporatism to workerism
This article uses the life story of Alfred Makwarimba, the founding president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and a career trade unionist, to examine how trade unionism and its leadership in particular transformed under the impact of neoliberalism in Zimbabwe from the 1990s. Existing scholarship focusses on aspects of labour’s political unionism during neoliberalism. This paper builds on this literature by exploring the endurance of work…
A trove for historians of Africa
Trove opens possibilities for collaborative, transnational and comparative research from scholars in the Global South, who often work with limited financial resources. Indeed, Trove has been indispensable for the South African-based historians in the International Studies Group, who would otherwise face difficulties accessing Australian primary sources. It also enables Australian perspectives to be incorporated into African histories, fostering t…
Zimbabwe’s predatory state
When Zimbabwe attained its independence in 1980, it was described as the ‘jewel of Africa’. It had the most industrialized and structurally developed economy in sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the country’s economy had regressed remarkably and has never recovered. Many commentators and scholars have tried to account for Zimbabwe’s sharp economic decline. The consensus seems to be that Zimbabwe’s …
By Whatever Means Necessary!”
(2017). “By Whatever Means Necessary!”: Surviving in Post-2000 Zimbabwe. African Historical Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 91-103
The Politics and Economics of Decolonisation in Africa
Britain's retreat from empire after 1945 was a go-stop-go business. While abandoning its possessions in South Asia, it strengthened its position in Central Africa by creating the Central African Fe
Solidarity Road
Solidarity Road: The Story of a Trade Union in the Ending of Apartheid." African Historical Review, 49(1), pp. 104–105
Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism
The causes, course and consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] by Southern Rhodesia have generated a large scholarly literature. Less frequently accounted for is the growth of the Colony's secondary industrial sector, for a time the most sophisticated in Africa north of the Limpopo. Almost entirely lacking is analysis of the relationship, structural and political, between the two. Without an already existing secondary ind…
Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism
The causes, course and consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] by Southern Rhodesia have generated a large scholarly literature. Less frequently accounted for is the growth of the Colony’s secondary industrial sector, for a time the most sophisticated in Africa north of the Limpopo. Almost entirely lacking is analysis of the relationship, structural and political, between the two. Without an already existing secondary ind…
From state corporatism to workerism
This article uses the life story of Alfred Makwarimba, the founding president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and a career trade unionist, to examine how trade unionism and its leadership in particular transformed under the impact of neoliberalism in Zimbabwe from the 1990s. Existing scholarship focusses on aspects of labour’s political unionism during neoliberalism. This paper builds on this literature by exploring the endurance of work…
By Whatever Means Necessary!”
(2017). “By Whatever Means Necessary!”: Surviving in Post-2000 Zimbabwe. African Historical Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 91-103
Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism
The causes, course and consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] by Southern Rhodesia have generated a large scholarly literature. Less frequently accounted for is the growth of the Colony's secondary industrial sector, for a time the most sophisticated in Africa north of the Limpopo. Almost entirely lacking is analysis of the relationship, structural and political, between the two. Without an already existing secondary ind…
By Whatever Means Necessary!”
(2017). “By Whatever Means Necessary!”: Surviving in Post-2000 Zimbabwe. African Historical Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 91-103
The Politics and Economics of Decolonisation in Africa
Britain's retreat from empire after 1945 was a go-stop-go business. While abandoning its possessions in South Asia, it strengthened its position in Central Africa by creating the Central African Fe
Solidarity Road
Solidarity Road: The Story of a Trade Union in the Ending of Apartheid." African Historical Review, 49(1), pp. 104–105
Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism
The causes, course and consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] by Southern Rhodesia have generated a large scholarly literature. Less frequently accounted for is the growth of the Colony's secondary industrial sector, for a time the most sophisticated in Africa north of the Limpopo. Almost entirely lacking is analysis of the relationship, structural and political, between the two. Without an already existing secondary ind…
Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism
The causes, course and consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] by Southern Rhodesia have generated a large scholarly literature. Less frequently accounted for is the growth of the Colony’s secondary industrial sector, for a time the most sophisticated in Africa north of the Limpopo. Almost entirely lacking is analysis of the relationship, structural and political, between the two. Without an already existing secondary ind…
Zimbabwe’s predatory state
When Zimbabwe attained its independence in 1980, it was described as the ‘jewel of Africa’. It had the most industrialized and structurally developed economy in sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the country’s economy had regressed remarkably and has never recovered. Many commentators and scholars have tried to account for Zimbabwe’s sharp economic decline. The consensus seems to be that Zimbabwe’s …
A trove for historians of Africa
Trove opens possibilities for collaborative, transnational and comparative research from scholars in the Global South, who often work with limited financial resources. Indeed, Trove has been indispensable for the South African-based historians in the International Studies Group, who would otherwise face difficulties accessing Australian primary sources. It also enables Australian perspectives to be incorporated into African histories, fostering t…
To build a just and fair society”
popularised the utopia of building a rainbow nation. The idea was to bring \ntogether all people of South Africa, in all their diversity, to work towards a \nnew, common, non-racial and equal society. Indeed, the vision of these \ntwo struggle heroes was codified and became a core value of South Africa’s \n1996 Constitution. Using the case of the Federation of South African Trade \nUnions (Fosatu) active in the period 1979-1985, this article demo…
From state corporatism to workerism
This article uses the life story of Alfred Makwarimba, the founding president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and a career trade unionist, to examine how trade unionism and its leadership in particular transformed under the impact of neoliberalism in Zimbabwe from the 1990s. Existing scholarship focusses on aspects of labour’s political unionism during neoliberalism. This paper builds on this literature by exploring the endurance of work…
Cooperation and Competition
This paper discusses relations between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia from 1939 to 1948. The article begins in 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War brought mixed fortunes for the two neighbours. For Southern Rhodesia, which relied mainly on imported manufactured goods from the United Kingdom, the war induced shortages resulting in huge domestic demand. Shortages stimulated calls for local industry to fill the vacuum. Consequently, a…
Autonomy for Our Economy’
This article revisits the impact and legacy of the 1922 referendum and the subsequent granting of responsible government status to Southern Rhodesia in shaping the future economic trajectory of the self-governing colony. Governed through the chartered British South Africa Company (BSAC) from 1890, Southern Rhodesia developed as a typical colony dependent on the export of raw materials, the import of manufactured goods, external capital for econom…
The Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–1963
This article details how and why officials in the United States and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland developed policies and initiatives to promote US capital investments. It analyzes these policies in the context of decolonization, white minority rule, and the Cold War in Africa. It further shows how US business interests, especially in the mining industry, increased their investments and influenced policy. Drawing from Zimbabwean archive…
African Entrepreneurship in urban colonial Zimbabwe
This paper examines the importance of Highfield to the African entrepreneurship history of colonial Zimbabwe, then known as Southern Rhodesia. The Southern Rhodesia colonial state established the township of Highfield in its capital city, Salisbury (now Harare), in 1936 as part of its spatial and racial segregation policy. The policy made Africans temporary residents in the urban areas. However, the post-Second World War industrial growth forced …
Propping up the rebellion’
This paper examines the role of big business as the linchpin of late colonialism in Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) during its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) years between 1966 and 1979. After Rhodesia’s rebellion against Britain in 1965, London and the world, through the United Nations, responded by imposing sanctions against Salisbury, hoping to bring it to legality quickly. However, Rhodesia survived the expected impact of sanctions…
Political science (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · Law (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Economy (5 works)