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Journal articles on the topic "Rhodesia/zimbabwean society"

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McDowell, Matthew L. "Scottish Football and Colonial Zimbabwe: Sport, the Scottish Diaspora, and ‘White Africa’." Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 37, no. 1 (May 2017): 73–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jshs.2017.0203.

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In 1969 and 1970 respectively, Clyde and Kilmarnock Football Clubs embarked on highly controversial tours of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), then in conflict with the UK over its failure to enact a timetable for majority, non-white rule, and its 1965 unilateral declaration of independence to protect such a system. Despite defying the wishes of the UK Government, these tours were covered very little in Scottish newspapers, and there was little sustained public outcry. This article examines the uneven Scottish and Westminster reactions to the tours (in particular, Kilmarnock's) in the context of broader policies and movements against Rhodesian and South African sport. It also examines Rhodesian press accounts of the trips, which stressed communion with elements of the Scottish diaspora within Rhodesian civic society. It addresses the tours' place within the broader context of work, race and migration during the period 1965–80, when the Rhodesian Front government and its white settler supporters were under continual siege from a multi-pronged nationalist resistance. Critically, this article asks whether or not Scotland and indeed Scottish sport can be extricated from the horrors of decolonisation, in a region where both had deep historic roots.
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Maxwell, David. "‘Catch the Cockerel Before Dawn’: Pentecostalism and Politics in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe." Africa 70, no. 2 (May 2000): 249–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2000.70.2.249.

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AbstractThe article examines relations between pentecostalism and politics in post-colonial Zimbabwe through a case study of one of Africa’s largest pentecostal movements, Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA). The Church’s relations with the state change considerably from the colonial to the post-colonial era. The movement began as a sectarian township-based organisation which eschewed politics but used white Rhodesian and American contacts to gain resources and modernise. In the first decade of independence the leadership embraced the dominant discourses of cultural nationalism and development but fell foul of the ruling party, ZANU/PF, because of its ‘seeming’ connections with the rebel politician Ndabiningi Sithole and the American religious right. By the 1990s ZAOGA and ZANU/PF had embraced, each drawing legitimacy from the other. However, this reciprocal assimilation of elites and the authoritarianism of ZAOGA’s leadership are in tension with the democratic egalitarian culture found in local assemblies, where the excesses of leaders are challenged. These alternative pentecostal practices are in symbiosis with radical township politics and progressive sources in civil society. Thus, while pentecostalism may renew the process of politics in Zimbabwe, it may itself be renewed by the outside forces of wider Zimbabwean society.
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Musemwa, Muchaparara. "Climate and Societal Interaction in Southwestern Matabeleland, Colonial Zimbabwe: The Drought of 1964–66 and its Antecedents." Human Geography 12, no. 1 (March 2019): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861901200111.

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The drought which afflicted colonial Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia until 1980) during the period, 1964–1966, in general and Southwestern (SW) Matabeleland, in particular was perhaps the most debilitating calamity in the colonial era than any other drought, yet it has remained unrecognized and hidden in the opaque shadows of Zimbabwe's colonial history. Despite the occurrence of many droughts and other ecological disasters in Zimbabwe, there have not been, any historical studies dedicated to understanding these calamities, let alone studies that interrogate the ways in which climate and society have interacted to determine how they (disasters) have been historically produced. This paper responds to recent calls by scholars on drought research for more textured histories of environmental disasters that dispense with the practice of treating climate as a mono-causal explanation for disasters and present studies that highlight the intricate interaction between climate variability and society. It argues that the impact of the 1964–66 drought in SW Matabeleland can only be understood by taking a long historical view which examines the complex interaction between colonial policies and practices which violently removed Africans to areas of ‘environmental marginality’ and the effects of climate change such as rainfall variability and droughts.
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Varela Tembra, Juan José. "DORIS LESSING’S THE GRASS IS SINGING: AN APOLOGY OF THE RHODHESIAN SOCIETY AS A POSTCOLONIAL PSYCHOSOCIAL DRAMA." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 1 (May 22, 2017): 258. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v1i0.576.

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ResumenDoris Lessing, one of the most significant postcolonial writers, made her debut as a novelist with The Grass Is Singing (1950). The novel examines the relationship between Mary Turner, a white farmer’s wife, and her black African servant in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s. The novel does not only deal with racial politics between whites and blacks, but also explores feminist issues. Moreover, the description of Mary Turner merits closer examination on account of Lessing’s incomparable depictions of the female psyche in the midst of restrictions imposed by gender, race and class. Core themes of the novel include a failed marriage, the sexual obsessions mainly on the part of whites, and the fear of black power and revenge which still obtain today while the British Colonial past is only a memory.Key words: Rhodesia, feminism, racism, colonialism, postcolonial, social issues Titulo en español: The Grass Is Singing de Doris Lessing: una apología de la sociedad de Rodesia como drama postcolonial psicosocialResumen: Una de las escritores poscoloniales más relevantes, Doris Lessing, comenzó su carrera como novelista con The Grass Is Singing (1950). La novela examina la relación entre María Turner, esposa de un granjero blanco y su sirviente negro africano en Rodesia, actual Zimbabue, durante la década de los años 40 del pasado siglo. La novela no sólo trata de la política racial entre blancos y negros, sino también explora temas feministas. Sin embargo, la descripción que Lessing nos proporciona de Mary Turner aporta una perspectiva única, un examen detenido de la psique femenina en medio de situaciones de raza, sexo y sexo, la raza y problemática social. Los motivos internos de la novela nos muestran una temática en torno a un matrimonio fracasado, la obsesión por la sexualidad, mayoritariamente por parte de los blancos, y el miedo al poder negro y a la venganza; algo todavía muy válido en la actualidad cuando el pasado colonial británico sólo permanece como un legado.Palabras clave: Rodesia, feminismo, racismo, colonialismo, postcolonialismo, temas sociales.
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Kynoch, Gary. "The ‘Transformation’ of the South African Military." Journal of Modern African Studies 34, no. 3 (September 1996): 441–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00055543.

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SouthernAfrica has been at war since the 1960s. Following the capitulation of Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front and the acceptance of majority rule in Zimbabwe in 1980, the widely acknowledged root of most of the regional conflict has been South Africa. In defendingapartheid, the régime in Pretoria engaged in a systematic campaign of destabilisation designed to bring its neighbours to heel. Military invasions, raids, sabotage, support of dissident groups, and assassinations were all part of the National Party (NP) Government's ‘total strategy’ that employed violence as a key element in its regional policy to achieve economic, military, and political hegemony. P. W. Botha during his tenure as Prime Minister and President, 1978–89, ‘politically modified the role’ of the South African Defence Force (SADF), as explained by Herbert Howe, and ‘created the military-dominated State Security Council, which effectively replaced the Cabinet and became the centre of national decision-making and official power in the 1980s’.1The result was the militarisation of South African society and a swath of destruction across the southern part of the continent.
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Abbasova, Sadagat. "THE CHARACTERISTICS AND APPROACHES OF IMMANENCE CRITICISM IN DORIS LESSING’S NOVEL OF “THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK”." SCIENTIFIC WORK 15, no. 2 (March 9, 2021): 6–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/63/6-10.

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Unlike the XIX century, literary culture of the XX century made a strong aesthetic leap in women’s identity. This process has caused to the emergence of a large number of new generation women writers in world literature and moreover, these writers had succeeded in revealing a real and contemporary literary phenomenon, such as “immanence- immanentism” which is focused on female landscapes in their stories and novels. In general, the works of “immanence” authors have a feminist background. As a doctrine, imamnence is used to explain the connection with the spiritual world, which is confirmed by some philosophical and metaphysical theories and critics. But later, immanence was replaced by Kant as a philosophical concept, and this awareness began to include a philosophical disposition perceived by the senses on the basis of personal experience. Lessing, who donated many works to world culture, created a portrait of the physical and spiritual characteristics of people (especially women) with her strong logic and talent in all her stories and novels and tried to explain in detail the special feelings that exist in them. With the help of this concept, Lessing aimed not only to represent the love experiences and emotional vibrations of women in her novels, but also to present a strong and courageous woman in a socio-cultural and political context, unlike female literature. In this paper is discussed, the feature elements of immanent culture in Doris Lessing’s novel in (“The Golden Notebook”). In the novel, Lessing interprets the classic drama of a woman of art who is free ones like as herself and in their examples, examines the potential and profiles of creative women seeking their place in social society. In her works, Doris Lessing reproduces the female perspective in the universe by thinking from the prism of immanentism and pays particular attention to the psychology of female characters and the identification of their inner states of heroes. Based on all of these, the author also refers to the expanding principle of women sovereignty regarding the rights and the status of women in society. At the same time, Lessing also explores the possibility of a relationship based on the concept of mundane reality as an alternative to romantic love parodies of postmodernism, and with this in mind, she erects a “protective wall” against the expansion of the “Western world” in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Key words: existence, immanence, Sufism, "The Golden Notebook", socio-cultural
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French, J. M., R. A. Stamler, J. J. Randall, and N. P. Goldberg. "First Report of Phytophthora nicotianae on Bulb Onion in the United States." Plant Disease 95, no. 8 (August 2011): 1028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-01-11-0048.

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Phytophthora nicotianae (synonym P. parasitica) Breda de Haan was isolated from recently harvested onion bulbs (Allium cepa) in cold storage from a commercial field in southern New Mexico. Deteriorating, water-soaked tissue from the center of four bulbs was plated onto water agar and incubated at room temperature. After 72 h, cultures of Phytophthora (identified by the presence of coenocytic hyphae and papillate sporangia) were isolated and transferred to V8 agar amended with ampicillin (250 mg/liter), rifampicin (10 mg/liter), and pimaricin (0.2% wt/vol). Isolates were identified as P. nicotianae based on morphological characteristics and DNA analysis. Sporangia were sharply papilliate, noncaducous, and ovoid to spherical. The average sporangium size was 45.9 × 39.9 μm with a length-to-width ratio of 1.15. Clamydospores, both terminal and intercalary, were spherical to ovoid and averaged 37.2 × 35.2 μm (2). PCR from whole-cell extracts was performed on four cultured isolates from the infected onion tissue using previously described primers ITS4 and ITS6, which amplify the 5.8S rDNA and ITS1 and ITS2 internal transcribed spacers (1,4). A band of approximately 890 bp was amplified and directly sequenced (GenBank Accession No. HQ398876). A BLAST search of the NCBI total nucleotide collection revealed a 100% similarity to multiple P. nicotianae isolates previously sequenced (1). To confirm the pathogenicity of the isolates, onion seedlings were inoculated with 25 ml of P. nicotionae zoospore solution (15,000 zoospores/ml). Necrosis of leaf tissue and seedling death was observed 5 days postinoculation. P. nicotianae was reisolated from the infected onion seedlings and the ITS region was sequenced to confirm its identity. P. nicotianae was previously reported in bulb onion from Australia, Taiwan (Formosa), and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) (2). P. nicotianae was reported on bunching onions (A. fistulosum) in Hawaii in 1989 (3). Onions are an important crop in New Mexico with a total production value of 47 million dollars in 2008 (NM Agriculture Statistics 2008). This discovery of a potentially significant postharvest disease poses a threat to the onion industry in New Mexico. To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. nicotianae in bulb onion in the United States and the first report of P. nicotianae in New Mexico on any crop. References: (1) D. E. L. Cooke and J. M. Duncan. Mycol. Res. 101:667, 1997. (2) D. C. Erwin and O. K. Ribeiro. Page 56 in: Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide. The American Phytopathological Society, St Paul, MN, 1996. (3) R. D. Raabe et al. Information Text Series No. 22. University of Hawaii. Hawaii Inst. Trop. Agric. Human Resources, 1981. (4) T. J. White et al. Page 315 in: PCR Protocols: A Guide to Methods and Applications. M. A. Innis et al., eds. Academic Press, San Diego, 1990.
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Møller, Valerie, and Ayanda Sotshongaye. "Open Journal Systems Journal Help User You are logged in as... wynlib My Journals My Profile Log Out About The Authors Valerie Møller Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University South Africa Ayanda Sotshongaye Department of Labour, Pietermaritzburg South Africa Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Font Size Make font size smaller Make font size default Make font size larger Journal Content Search Search Scope Browse By Issue By Author By Title Other Journals Article Tools Print this article Indexing metadata How to cite item Finding References Email this article Email the author Popular Articles »Generational interdependence: living arrangements and housing programmes 31 views since: »The growing problem of violence against older persons in Africa 25 views since: 2006-10-01 »Risk profile for chronic diseases of life-style in older black South Africans. The BRISK Study 24 views since: »The role of gender in gait analysis in the elderly 21 views since: »Research for practice and development in Africa 15 views since: 2006-10-01 »AIDS and older Zimbabweans: who will care for the carers? 15 views since: 1997-03-17 »The contribution of older people to society: evaluation of participatory research methodology employed in studies in Ghana and South Africa 14 views since: 2006-10-01 »Effects of the AIDS epidemic and the Community Home-Based Care programme on the health of older Batswana 13 views since: 2016-03-29 »Victimisation and killing of older women: witchcraft in Magu district, Tanzania 13 views since: 2006-10-01 »Caregiving on the edge: the situation of family caregivers to older persons in Botswana 13 views since: 2016-03-29 Home About User Home Search Current Archives Rhodes Library Services Home > Vol 8, No 2 (1999) > Møller “They don’t listen”: contemporary respect relations between Zulu grandmothers and granddaughters/-sons." Southern African Journal of Gerontology 8, no. 2 (October 1999): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/sajg.v8i2.168.

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Gehrmann, Richard, and Rachel Hammersley-Mather. "War and Migration in the White African Tropics: Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics 15, no. 2 (December 20, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.15.2.2016.3540.

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This paper explores voyage and migration in tropical Africa through Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End, a memoir contributing to debates of white African identity that now include more contemporary renditions of identity in female self-reflective accounts differing markedly from masculine perspectives. In her coming-of-age memoir, St John chronicles her experiences of a privileged 1970s white Rhodesian society at war, and her gradual awareness of racial inequalities that transformed her into a white Zimbabwean. For her parents, voyage and migration take different paths. Her father migrated (with his family) to fight for a white Rhodesia, driven by masculine concerns. In contrast, St John’s mother was an avid traveller who journeyed from the mundane world of tropical farm life to exotic locations in Europe and beyond, escaping both her deteriorating marriage and the dull world of the club, small town gossip and a narrow minded semi-colonial rural environment. St John’s account of white settler identity and racial difference gives us insights into a day in the African tropics, and furthermore speaks to those in other settler countries such as Australia who are debating colonial history and identity, and who are often uncomfortable with aspects of their own settler past.
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Nyandoro, Mark. "The Gowe Irrigation co-operative society and its role in Sanyati (Zimbabwe), 1967-1969." Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa 3, no. 2 (April 11, 2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/td.v3i2.331.

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The paper focuses on the origins and development of agricultural co-operative societies in Zimbabwe since 1954 with particular reference to Gowe-Sanyati and evaluates their role in facilitating the channelling of production inputs to farmers and the marketing oftheir produce. It examines the criteria for eligibility to membership of such associations, namely who could belong and who could not, as well as their administrative structures and practices. In addition, the paper evaluates the societies’ impact on their members, on African development and on the national economy. In 1954 the Government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) began investigations on the needfor co-operative societies (co-ops) in order to promote African development through facilitating the acquisition of production inputs and the marketing of agricultural products. In 1956, the first co-operative society was established, while the main focus of thispaper’s interest, the Gowe Irrigation Co-operative Society of Sanyati in the northwestern part of the country, was established in 1967. Established by a government agency known as the Tribal Trust Land Development Corporation (TILCOR), now the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA), the co-operative society flourished and became a model for the distribution of agricultural inputs and credit to African farmers. It collapsed in 1969 due to a number of factors, among them poor management andcorruption.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Rhodesia/zimbabwean society"

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Musvoto, Rangarirai Alfred. "Society writ large: the vision of three Zimbabwean women writers." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24663.

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This study explores the social ‘vision’ of three Shona women writers vis-à-vis their Zimbabwean society, attempting to ascertain whether this vision is entrenched in the post-independence context or has been shaped by the whole canvas of colonization and its impact on Shona society. For this purpose, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988), Yvonne Vera’s Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals (1992) and Freedom Nyamubaya’s Dusk of Dawn (1995) have been selected to explore the representation of Zimbabwean society in different artistic genres. The approach is mainly socio-historical, examining the selected texts in the context of Zimbabwean history and paying attention to how the socio-political dynamics in both colonial Rhodesia and post-independence Zimbabwe influence the creative output of Zimbabwean writers, in general, and of the selected writers, in particular. In addition, this study refers to other aspects of literary theory, especially African feminist theories, since all three writers discuss the plight of black African women. This study consists of four chapters arranged according to the historical period in which the texts are set, which coincides with publication date. Chapter One provides a general background to Zimbabwean writing in English to root the study in the socio-historical experiences of the country. This chapter thus considers the works of both white and black writers. Chapter Two discusses Nervous Conditions, critiquing it as a women’s narrative in a social realist mode, because it portrays the social and political forces as significant shapers of human lives. Chapter Three analyzes Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals as a text in the fabulist mode, which re-imagines cultural and literary politics. Nyamubaya’s poetry, discussed in Chapter Four, is autobiographical and ideological. It revisits the Zimbabwean liberation war, situating it within both the private and national spheres, and arguing that such a standpoint emanates from Nyamubaya’s need to make sense of her own experiences during the war and in post-independence Zimbabwe. In conclusion, the study summarizes the major findings of the research, analyzing these against the background to Zimbabwean writing in English given in Chapter One.
Dissertation (MA (English))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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Bischoff, Richard Karl. ""Shedding their blood as the seed of faith": the Zambesi Mission Jesuits and ambivalence about modernity." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25994.

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The study addresses from a sociocultural-historical, in particular a missiological and medical perspective the question if Catholic hospitals in Matabeleland, affected by the dramatic down-turn of Zimbabwe’s economy since 2000, did whatever they could to continue offering quality services to their patients. It starts with a portrayal of the emergence of secular modernity in the North-Atlantic World, as regards its view of the world as solely governed by natural laws, and of people as capable of taking destiny into their own hands, unperturbed by spiritual forces. The question is explored how the Christian Occident could end up there, following its development through the Middle Ages, and its expansion by missionary activity, by preaching the Word, but also by military force. Next, the achievements of pre-1900 Western medicine are examined, to identify if/how missionaries in Africa could have benefited. The study describes how professional medicine did not become part of the early Zambesi Mission, not because of its curative shortcomings, but for spiritual reasons, insofar as the Jesuits did not follow the European trend to let worldly well-being take the place of eternal salvation. Vis-à-vis their other-than-modern view of life, suffering, and (self-)sacrifice, the promises of medicine appeared just trivial. Submissiveness to authority, both ecclesiastical and worldly, is identified as the core principle that informed the Jesuits’ educational approach towards Africans in all their efforts at conversions. The missionaries thereby colluded with colonialist thinking, in not attempting to make their pupils grow into self-confident, independent thinkers in their own right. In this educational tradition, grafted onto a pre-modern local culture, the study finds the reason why Zimbabwean medical staff, as managers of their clinics or hospitals, have shown little readiness to proactively prioritise the intrinsic needs of their institutions and push for corrective measures, prepared even to challenge their superiors when encountering aberrations in the health system, locally as well as higher up. The study asks if the Church could have opted for a different educational approach, considering the prevailing socio-economic and cultural framework conditions; finally, which options present-day Zimbabweans have to choose from, regarding their country’s future development.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)
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Books on the topic "Rhodesia/zimbabwean society"

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Islands of white: Settler society and culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "Rhodesia/zimbabwean society"

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"White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society." In Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979, 1–23. BRILL, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004381124_002.

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"White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s." In Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979, 120–46. BRILL, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004381124_008.

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