Mediel Hove
Biographic Data
| ID | 89054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mediel Hove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mediel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hove |
| SIGNATURE | HOVE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zimbabwe |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1712-6385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
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…
A drive to regime change through nonviolent economic warfare: The post-Mugabe era, 2017–2019
This article examines efforts made by the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance to bring about regime change through nonviolent economic warfare including its subsequent failure. The 30 July 2018 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe led to a victory by Emmerson Mnangagwa but it was disputed by Nelson Chamisa. Since August 2018, the political opposition led by Chamisa sought to make the country ungovernable by waging a nonviolent economic war nickna…
Social media, civil unrest and government responses: The Zimbabwean experience
This article discusses the discontent that increased against the Robert Mugabe led government as a result of grave socio-economic and political grievances, and in the context of accessible social media platforms which mobilised and empowered disenfranchised Zimbabweans to challenge the regime after the 2013 elections. Among other factors, the mounting discontent was caused by the belated payment of civil servants’ salaries, inability to create em…
When a Political Party Turns against Its Cadres: Zanu PF Factional Infightings 2004-2017
This article examines how the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front party turned against its cadres between 2004 and 2017. It argues that the infightings were caused by Mugabe, who pitted one faction against the other as the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) PF cashiered its cadres to safeguard Mugabe. It was the same militarized factionalism that catapulted Mugabe to the helm of the national liberation movement in 1977, spearheade…
Education provision in the midst of a crisis: The Zimbabwean experience after 1999
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 Zimbabwe people's revolutionary army military operations in Makonde district and the attack on Salisbury's fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979
This article analyses the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army operations in Mashonaland West province with particular reference to Makonde District during the country’s war of liberation. Despite the growing literature on ZAPU and ZPRA in Zimbabwe’s war of liberation there is little that has been written concerning the operations of ZPRA guerrillas in Mashonaland provinces. Guided by evidence drawn from secondary and primary sources the article …
‘Prophets of Doom’: The Zimbabwean Christian Community and Contemporary Politics
Since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, the Christian community was largely silent about Zimbabwe’s economic and political quagmire. However, the country’s growing political and economic turmoil drew the Zimbabwean Christian community into direct confrontation with Mugabe’s administration. The community experienced political awakening after decades of political indifference, passivity and silence. In 2016, several Christian leaders and their denom…
Regime-change agenda: The Egyptian experience from 2011 to 2015
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…
The Necessity of Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe
This article focuses on the factors that demonstrate the necessity and significance of security sector reform in Zimbabwe. This is important given the security forces' interference in elections and politics, the militarisation of civilian institutions and grave intra-party factional wars that emerged. It argues that the security sector was partisan, politicised, violent on civilians and divisive with the support of the Zimbabwe African National U…
Zimbabwe’s Fight for Independence: Aspects of Zanla’s Guerrilla War
By any standard, the book, Zimbabwe’s Fight for Independence: Aspects of ZANLA’s Guerrilla War, is a typical patriotic history text which glorifies the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZA
Women's Rights in Jeopardy: The Case of War-Torn South Sudan
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…
Post-Gaddafi Libya and the African Union: Challenges and the Road to Sustainable Peace
The overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia and Egypt by revolutionary demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2011 inspired Libyans to depose the Gaddafi regime. The heavy handedness of Gaddafi attracted the intervention of the West and the United States under the emblem of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. The article argues that instead of effecting regime change, the demonstrations whose epicentre was Benghazi culminat…
When Flood Victims Became State Victims: Tokwe-Mukosi, Zimbabwe
The purpose of this article is to show how victims of the Tokwe-Mukosi floods became state victims instead of being protected and assisted by the state. The research used the qualitative research design and analyzed its material collected from primary and secondary sources and presented in themes. The study benefited from the human rights and victimhood concepts in its theoretical framework. It argues that the rights of the flood victims were vio…
Regional mediation strategy: The case of Zimbabwe
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 Syrian Conflict 2011 to the Present: Challenges and Prospects
The 21st century witnessed a wave of uprisings code-named the Arab Spring that resulted in the fall of Ben Ali, Gaddafi, and Mubarak. Indeed, the 'mother' of the Arab Spring was in Syria where efforts to oust Assad claimed an enormous but predictable toll on human lives and immeasurable infrastructural obliteration. The United States and Russia gathered considerable allies behind them to fight for regional dominance in a Cold War style. This arti…
Violent state operations at Chiadzwa (Zimbabwe) diamond fields 2006-2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the debilitating socio-economic impact caused by the diamonds at Chiadzwa area in Zimbabwe on the illegal mining community that emerged and inhabited the hills of Chiadzwa between 2006 and the beginning of 2009. The research was carried out for academic proposes, as an advocacy strategy to expose the abuses and violent state operations perpetrated by the security forces. In addition, it intend…
When will the long nightmare come to an end: Challenges to national healing and reconciliation in post-colonial Zimbabwe
This article seeks to show that the emotive reconciliation project in Zimbabwe, which is currently spearheaded by the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration, is not new in the Zimbabwe polity. Its incarnation under the Government of National Unity clearly indicates the inadequacies and ineffectiveness of the initial reconciliation project, which was enunciated immediately after independence in 1980. In this article we argue tha…
When Flood Victims Became State Victims: Tokwe-Mukosi, Zimbabwe
The purpose of this article is to show how victims of the Tokwe-Mukosi floods became state victims instead of being protected and assisted by the state. The research used the qualitative research design and analyzed its material collected from primary and secondary sources and presented in themes. The study benefited from the human rights and victimhood concepts in its theoretical framework. It argues that the rights of the flood victims were vio…
When a Political Party Turns against Its Cadres: Zanu PF Factional Infightings 2004-2017
This article examines how the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front party turned against its cadres between 2004 and 2017. It argues that the infightings were caused by Mugabe, who pitted one faction against the other as the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) PF cashiered its cadres to safeguard Mugabe. It was the same militarized factionalism that catapulted Mugabe to the helm of the national liberation movement in 1977, spearheade…
The Necessity of Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe
This article focuses on the factors that demonstrate the necessity and significance of security sector reform in Zimbabwe. This is important given the security forces' interference in elections and politics, the militarisation of civilian institutions and grave intra-party factional wars that emerged. It argues that the security sector was partisan, politicised, violent on civilians and divisive with the support of the Zimbabwe African National U…
Post-Gaddafi Libya and the African Union: Challenges and the Road to Sustainable Peace
The overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia and Egypt by revolutionary demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2011 inspired Libyans to depose the Gaddafi regime. The heavy handedness of Gaddafi attracted the intervention of the West and the United States under the emblem of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. The article argues that instead of effecting regime change, the demonstrations whose epicentre was Benghazi culminat…
A drive to regime change through nonviolent economic warfare: The post-Mugabe era, 2017–2019
This article examines efforts made by the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance to bring about regime change through nonviolent economic warfare including its subsequent failure. The 30 July 2018 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe led to a victory by Emmerson Mnangagwa but it was disputed by Nelson Chamisa. Since August 2018, the political opposition led by Chamisa sought to make the country ungovernable by waging a nonviolent economic war nickna…
The Syrian Conflict 2011 to the Present: Challenges and Prospects
The 21st century witnessed a wave of uprisings code-named the Arab Spring that resulted in the fall of Ben Ali, Gaddafi, and Mubarak. Indeed, the 'mother' of the Arab Spring was in Syria where efforts to oust Assad claimed an enormous but predictable toll on human lives and immeasurable infrastructural obliteration. The United States and Russia gathered considerable allies behind them to fight for regional dominance in a Cold War style. This arti…
Social media, civil unrest and government responses: The Zimbabwean experience
This article discusses the discontent that increased against the Robert Mugabe led government as a result of grave socio-economic and political grievances, and in the context of accessible social media platforms which mobilised and empowered disenfranchised Zimbabweans to challenge the regime after the 2013 elections. Among other factors, the mounting discontent was caused by the belated payment of civil servants’ salaries, inability to create em…
Regional mediation strategy: The case of Zimbabwe
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 will the long nightmare come to an end: Challenges to national healing and reconciliation in post-colonial Zimbabwe
This article seeks to show that the emotive reconciliation project in Zimbabwe, which is currently spearheaded by the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration, is not new in the Zimbabwe polity. Its incarnation under the Government of National Unity clearly indicates the inadequacies and ineffectiveness of the initial reconciliation project, which was enunciated immediately after independence in 1980. In this article we argue tha…
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: The Zimbabwean experience after 1999
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…
Women's Rights in Jeopardy: The Case of War-Torn South Sudan
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…
Violent state operations at Chiadzwa (Zimbabwe) diamond fields 2006-2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the debilitating socio-economic impact caused by the diamonds at Chiadzwa area in Zimbabwe on the illegal mining community that emerged and inhabited the hills of Chiadzwa between 2006 and the beginning of 2009. The research was carried out for academic proposes, as an advocacy strategy to expose the abuses and violent state operations perpetrated by the security forces. In addition, it intend…
Violent state operations at Chiadzwa (Zimbabwe) diamond fields 2006-2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the debilitating socio-economic impact caused by the diamonds at Chiadzwa area in Zimbabwe on the illegal mining community that emerged and inhabited the hills of Chiadzwa between 2006 and the beginning of 2009. The research was carried out for academic proposes, as an advocacy strategy to expose the abuses and violent state operations perpetrated by the security forces. In addition, it intend…
When will the long nightmare come to an end: Challenges to national healing and reconciliation in post-colonial Zimbabwe
This article seeks to show that the emotive reconciliation project in Zimbabwe, which is currently spearheaded by the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration, is not new in the Zimbabwe polity. Its incarnation under the Government of National Unity clearly indicates the inadequacies and ineffectiveness of the initial reconciliation project, which was enunciated immediately after independence in 1980. In this article we argue tha…
The Syrian Conflict 2011 to the Present: Challenges and Prospects
The 21st century witnessed a wave of uprisings code-named the Arab Spring that resulted in the fall of Ben Ali, Gaddafi, and Mubarak. Indeed, the 'mother' of the Arab Spring was in Syria where efforts to oust Assad claimed an enormous but predictable toll on human lives and immeasurable infrastructural obliteration. The United States and Russia gathered considerable allies behind them to fight for regional dominance in a Cold War style. This arti…
When Flood Victims Became State Victims: Tokwe-Mukosi, Zimbabwe
The purpose of this article is to show how victims of the Tokwe-Mukosi floods became state victims instead of being protected and assisted by the state. The research used the qualitative research design and analyzed its material collected from primary and secondary sources and presented in themes. The study benefited from the human rights and victimhood concepts in its theoretical framework. It argues that the rights of the flood victims were vio…
Regional mediation strategy: The case of Zimbabwe
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…
‘Prophets of Doom’: The Zimbabwean Christian Community and Contemporary Politics
Since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, the Christian community was largely silent about Zimbabwe’s economic and political quagmire. However, the country’s growing political and economic turmoil drew the Zimbabwean Christian community into direct confrontation with Mugabe’s administration. The community experienced political awakening after decades of political indifference, passivity and silence. In 2016, several Christian leaders and their denom…
Regime-change agenda: The Egyptian experience from 2011 to 2015
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…
The Necessity of Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe
This article focuses on the factors that demonstrate the necessity and significance of security sector reform in Zimbabwe. This is important given the security forces' interference in elections and politics, the militarisation of civilian institutions and grave intra-party factional wars that emerged. It argues that the security sector was partisan, politicised, violent on civilians and divisive with the support of the Zimbabwe African National U…
Zimbabwe’s Fight for Independence: Aspects of Zanla’s Guerrilla War
By any standard, the book, Zimbabwe’s Fight for Independence: Aspects of ZANLA’s Guerrilla War, is a typical patriotic history text which glorifies the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZA
Women's Rights in Jeopardy: The Case of War-Torn South Sudan
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…
Post-Gaddafi Libya and the African Union: Challenges and the Road to Sustainable Peace
The overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia and Egypt by revolutionary demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2011 inspired Libyans to depose the Gaddafi regime. The heavy handedness of Gaddafi attracted the intervention of the West and the United States under the emblem of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. The article argues that instead of effecting regime change, the demonstrations whose epicentre was Benghazi culminat…
When a Political Party Turns against Its Cadres: Zanu PF Factional Infightings 2004-2017
This article examines how the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front party turned against its cadres between 2004 and 2017. It argues that the infightings were caused by Mugabe, who pitted one faction against the other as the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) PF cashiered its cadres to safeguard Mugabe. It was the same militarized factionalism that catapulted Mugabe to the helm of the national liberation movement in 1977, spearheade…
Education provision in the midst of a crisis: The Zimbabwean experience after 1999
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 Zimbabwe people's revolutionary army military operations in Makonde district and the attack on Salisbury's fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979
This article analyses the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army operations in Mashonaland West province with particular reference to Makonde District during the country’s war of liberation. Despite the growing literature on ZAPU and ZPRA in Zimbabwe’s war of liberation there is little that has been written concerning the operations of ZPRA guerrillas in Mashonaland provinces. Guided by evidence drawn from secondary and primary sources the article …
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…
A drive to regime change through nonviolent economic warfare: The post-Mugabe era, 2017–2019
This article examines efforts made by the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance to bring about regime change through nonviolent economic warfare including its subsequent failure. The 30 July 2018 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe led to a victory by Emmerson Mnangagwa but it was disputed by Nelson Chamisa. Since August 2018, the political opposition led by Chamisa sought to make the country ungovernable by waging a nonviolent economic war nickna…
Social media, civil unrest and government responses: The Zimbabwean experience
This article discusses the discontent that increased against the Robert Mugabe led government as a result of grave socio-economic and political grievances, and in the context of accessible social media platforms which mobilised and empowered disenfranchised Zimbabweans to challenge the regime after the 2013 elections. Among other factors, the mounting discontent was caused by the belated payment of civil servants’ salaries, inability to create em…
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…
Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Economics (6 works)