Clement Masakure
Biographic Data
| ID | 937751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clement Masakure |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clement |
| FAMILY NAME | Masakure |
| SIGNATURE | MASAKURE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3683-9417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Fiery Collieries’ and Explosive Situations. Towards a History of the 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster
The 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) was the worst mining disaster in the country’s history and one of the worst in the world. On 6 June, 427 miners were killed by a series of devastating underground explosions. The victims came not only from Zimbabwe but also from across the region, as the mine’s African workforce was drawn from Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, as well as white w…
The colonial state, land-use policy and local responses in Seke Reserve, Rhodesia
From the late 1920s onwards, the state in colonial Zimbabwe began reordering African areas to arrest an impending ecological disaster while increasing their carrying capacity. The state introduced far-reaching land-use measures anchored on several immutable tenets, such as that African reserves had to finance their own progress and sustain themselves within the demarcated boundaries. The reordering within Seke Reserve began with centralisation in…
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names
Drawing on a range of source material that is in public domain, chiefly newspapers and Parliamentary Debates, this article examines the efforts at renaming government schools in early 2000s in Zimbabwe, the debates surrounding the renaming and the results thereof. The renaming of schools by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government aimed at replacing names that appeared to celebrate colonialism with those that expre…
To Serve Administrative Purposes and Native Interests?”
Based on archival material from the Natives Reserves Trust, this study examines the history of infrastructural development in African areas in colonial Zimbabwe. The article historicizes a generally neglected theme in Zimbabwe’s economic history: road investments in what were called African reserves. It addresses the themes around the nature of infrastructure in the countryside, funding of rural infrastructure, labor mobilization for road constru…
African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe
Using oral, archival and written sources, the book reconstructs the experiences of African women and men working in Zimbabwe's hospitals in the twentieth century. It demonstrates how African nurses, i.e., nursing assistants, nursing orderlies, medics and State Registered Nurses were the spine of the hospital system and through their work ensured the smooth functioning of hospitals in Zimbabwe. The book argues that African nurses took the opportun…
Crying for Our Elders
(2019). Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS, by Kristen E. Cheney. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 45-48
A Fraught Embrace
(2019). A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa, by A. Swidler and S. Cotts Watkins. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 49-53
Getting to Zero
Reviewed by: Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline by Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson Clement Masakure BOOK REVIEW of Walsh, Sinead, and Oliver Johnson. 2018. Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline. London: Zed Press. 422 pp. On 25 May 2014, officials in Sierra Leone confirmed their first Ebola case, and from 2014 to 2016, hospital staff in various capacities, different nongovernmental organizati…
The politicisation of health in Zimbabwe
In this article the case of the August 2008 to March 2009 cholera epidemic is used to examine the intersections between health and politics in Zimbabwe. The focus is on the different narratives deployed by the mainstream opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change under Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and the ruling party, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU -PF) to explain the causes of, and responses to the cholera epidemic…
Manners Make a Nation
We will make sure they are rehabilitated’
In 1983, three years into independence, the police and army went on a blitz arresting women and vagrants in Zimbabwe. After being screened at police stations and prisons, those who failed to prove that they were ‘living honestly’ were earmarked for resettlement. Furthermore, the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs was adamant that those rounded up were to be ‘rehabilitated’. This essay considers how one might understand the use of violenc…
Mission Station Christianity
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
Liberation Movements in Power
(2014). Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa. African Historical Review: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 123-125
Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa
Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa
To Serve Administrative Purposes and Native Interests?”
Based on archival material from the Natives Reserves Trust, this study examines the history of infrastructural development in African areas in colonial Zimbabwe. The article historicizes a generally neglected theme in Zimbabwe’s economic history: road investments in what were called African reserves. It addresses the themes around the nature of infrastructure in the countryside, funding of rural infrastructure, labor mobilization for road constru…
We will make sure they are rehabilitated’
In 1983, three years into independence, the police and army went on a blitz arresting women and vagrants in Zimbabwe. After being screened at police stations and prisons, those who failed to prove that they were ‘living honestly’ were earmarked for resettlement. Furthermore, the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs was adamant that those rounded up were to be ‘rehabilitated’. This essay considers how one might understand the use of violenc…
Liberation Movements in Power
(2014). Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa. African Historical Review: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 123-125
Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa
Mission Station Christianity
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
We will make sure they are rehabilitated’
In 1983, three years into independence, the police and army went on a blitz arresting women and vagrants in Zimbabwe. After being screened at police stations and prisons, those who failed to prove that they were ‘living honestly’ were earmarked for resettlement. Furthermore, the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs was adamant that those rounded up were to be ‘rehabilitated’. This essay considers how one might understand the use of violenc…
Manners Make a Nation
The politicisation of health in Zimbabwe
In this article the case of the August 2008 to March 2009 cholera epidemic is used to examine the intersections between health and politics in Zimbabwe. The focus is on the different narratives deployed by the mainstream opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change under Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and the ruling party, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU -PF) to explain the causes of, and responses to the cholera epidemic…
Crying for Our Elders
(2019). Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS, by Kristen E. Cheney. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 45-48
A Fraught Embrace
(2019). A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa, by A. Swidler and S. Cotts Watkins. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 49-53
Getting to Zero
Reviewed by: Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline by Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson Clement Masakure BOOK REVIEW of Walsh, Sinead, and Oliver Johnson. 2018. Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline. London: Zed Press. 422 pp. On 25 May 2014, officials in Sierra Leone confirmed their first Ebola case, and from 2014 to 2016, hospital staff in various capacities, different nongovernmental organizati…
African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe
Using oral, archival and written sources, the book reconstructs the experiences of African women and men working in Zimbabwe's hospitals in the twentieth century. It demonstrates how African nurses, i.e., nursing assistants, nursing orderlies, medics and State Registered Nurses were the spine of the hospital system and through their work ensured the smooth functioning of hospitals in Zimbabwe. The book argues that African nurses took the opportun…
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names
Drawing on a range of source material that is in public domain, chiefly newspapers and Parliamentary Debates, this article examines the efforts at renaming government schools in early 2000s in Zimbabwe, the debates surrounding the renaming and the results thereof. The renaming of schools by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government aimed at replacing names that appeared to celebrate colonialism with those that expre…
To Serve Administrative Purposes and Native Interests?”
Based on archival material from the Natives Reserves Trust, this study examines the history of infrastructural development in African areas in colonial Zimbabwe. The article historicizes a generally neglected theme in Zimbabwe’s economic history: road investments in what were called African reserves. It addresses the themes around the nature of infrastructure in the countryside, funding of rural infrastructure, labor mobilization for road constru…
The colonial state, land-use policy and local responses in Seke Reserve, Rhodesia
From the late 1920s onwards, the state in colonial Zimbabwe began reordering African areas to arrest an impending ecological disaster while increasing their carrying capacity. The state introduced far-reaching land-use measures anchored on several immutable tenets, such as that African reserves had to finance their own progress and sustain themselves within the demarcated boundaries. The reordering within Seke Reserve began with centralisation in…
‘Fiery Collieries’ and Explosive Situations. Towards a History of the 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster
The 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) was the worst mining disaster in the country’s history and one of the worst in the world. On 6 June, 427 miners were killed by a series of devastating underground explosions. The victims came not only from Zimbabwe but also from across the region, as the mine’s African workforce was drawn from Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, as well as white w…
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