Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe

Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe PDF

Author: Norma J. Kriger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-05-29

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1139438387

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Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies.

International Conference on the Zimbabwe Liberation War

International Conference on the Zimbabwe Liberation War PDF

Author: Ngwabi Bhebe

Publisher: James Currey Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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Zimbabwe's Liberation War started with incursions by tiny guerrilla groups and then built up until the settler regime finally had to negotiate a settlement in 1980. This book looks at the realities of the war and what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. There are both idealistic hopes and cynical compromises. It is centred on ordinary soldiers and people who sacrificed their lives to achieve advances and victories, and suffered the consequences of retreats and defeats. It is history told and experienced by the soldiers themselves, not the 'official' and 'authorized' account by leaders. This book compares strategies used by all the main players - ZIPRA, ZIPA, ZANLA and the Rhodesian Forces. It discusses the Nhari rebellion and the March 11 Movement, the Fifth Brigade and the 'dissidents'. The volume further examines the integration of the armies after 1980, analyses the politics of creating war heroes and discusses life after the war for ex-combatants.

War Veterans in Zimbabwe's Revolution

War Veterans in Zimbabwe's Revolution PDF

Author: Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1847010253

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An insider's view of the land issue and farm invasions in Zimbabwe, this book gives a different perspective than is normally heard, revealing much about the tensions within Zimbabwean society and between the war veterans and the ruling party.

Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War

Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War PDF

Author: Norma J. Kriger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521070676

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Studies of revolution generally regard peasant popular support as a prerequisite for success. In this study of political mobilization and organization in Zimbabwe's recent rural-based war of independence, Norma Kriger is interested in the extent to which ZANU guerrillas were able to mobilize peasant support, the reasons why peasants participated, and in the links between the post-war outcomes for peasants and the mobilization process. Hers is an unusual study of revolution in that she interviews peasants and other participants about their experiences, and she is able to produce fresh insights into village politics during a revolution. In particular, Zimbabwean peasant accounts direct our attention to the ZANU guerrillas' ultimate political victory despite the lack of peasant popular support, and to the importance that peasants attached to gender, generational and other struggles with one another. Her findings raise questions about theories of revolution.

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe PDF

Author: Blessing-Miles Tendi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1108472893

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An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.

War Veterans in Postwar Situations

War Veterans in Postwar Situations PDF

Author: N. Duclos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1137109742

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This edited volume deals with the reintegration and trajectories of intrastate or interstate war veterans. It raises the question of the effects of the war experience on ex-combatants with regards, in particular, to the perpetuation of a certain level of violence as well as the maintaining of structures, networks, and war methods after the war.

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