Beyond the Crises: Zimbabwe s Prospects for Transformation
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Over the past years, few African countries have been the focus of discussions and analyses generating a vast array of literature as much as Zimbabwe. The socioeconomic and political crises since the turn of the century have deeply transformed the country from the ideals of a vibrant freshly independent nation just two decades earlier. These transformations have necessitated the call for the restructuring of Zimbabwean society, polity, and economy. But this literature remains exclusively within the realm of academic thinking and theorising, with no concerted effort to move beyond this by explicitly drawing out the policy implications. Beyond the Crises: Zimbabwe's Prospects for Transformation is a welcome addition to the academic and policy literature with a much broader and all-embracing focus in terms of policy interventions. By focusing on different aspects of social and economic justice, Murisa and Chikweche go beyond initiating a broad discussion on these two key pillars of human development with a view to suggesting possible future directions of practical solutions and policy development for the attainment of inclusive social and economic justice for Zimbabweans.

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Date de parution 01 décembre 2015
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EAN13 9781779222831
Langue English
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Beyond the Crises:
Zimbabwe’s Prospects for Transformation

Published by TrustAfrica
Senegal and Zimbabwe
< www.trustafrica.org >
with
Weaver Press, Box A1922, Avondale, Harare. 2015
< www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com >
© Trust Africa, 2015
Edited by TrustAfrica
Typeset by Weaver Press
Cover Design: BluStrokes Designs, Harare
(from an original concept by Amalion Publishing)
Printed by Directory Publishers, Bulawayo
All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the express written permission of the publisher.
ISBN: 978-0-7974-6761-3 (TrustAfrica)
ISBN: 978-1-77922-285-5 (Weaver Press)
ISBN: 978-1-77922-283-1 (Weaver Press: ebook)
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Introduction
C HAPTER 1
Not yet Uhuru: Zimbabwe’s Halting Attempts at Democracy
C HAPTER 2
Arrested Development: An Analysis of Zimbabwe’s Post-Independence Social Policy Regimes
C HAPTER 3
Financial Exclusion: An Analysis of the Evolution and Development of Microfinance in Zimbabwe
C HAPTER 4
Land and Agrarian Policy Reforms Post 2000 : New Trends, Insights and Challenges
C HAPTER 5
Rethinking Gender and Accumulation: The Relevance of Small-Scale Entrepreneurship and Social Capital within a Rural Context
C HAPTER 6
Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture, Livelihood Options and Adaptation Strategies for Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe
C HAPTER 7
Biodiversity and Human Development in Zimbabwe
C HAPTER 8
Business Unusual: New Markets, Doing Business with the Base of the Pyramid
C HAPTER 9
Emerging Models of Inclusive Growth: Revisiting Entrepreneurship and SMMEs in Zimbabwe
C HAPTER 10
Policy Recommendations: Towards an Inclusive Socio-Economic Development Framework
C HAPTER 11
The Democracy Manifesto for Zimbabwe
I NDEX

About the Authors
Tendai Chikweche
Tendai is an academic and independent management consultant with over 14 years extensive hands-on experience. He is a holder of a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from NUST, an MBA (Bradford), a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing (Chartered Institute of Marketing) and a PhD from University of Western Sydney. He is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, of which he is a qualified Chartered Marketer. His research and consulting interests are primarily on enquiry on the bottom of pyramid markets, emerging markets, strategic marketing, international business, entrepreneurship and small to medium size enterprise development. He has presented and published numerous refereed international conference and journal papers on these subject areas and has won accolades for some of his research output, such as Emerald’s Australian Top Journal Articles for 2013 and CIMAR Best Conference Paper.
Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya
Chipo Mubaya is currently the Deputy Director for Research at Chinhoyi University. She holds a Ph.D in Development Studies from the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Her research background is Natural Resource Management with a specific focus on policy and institutional arrangements, livelihood assessments and issues to do with access and use of these resources. She worked with the Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS) at the University of Dar es Salaam capacity building and research on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Kingstone Mujeyi
Kingstone Mujeyi is a Doctoral student in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a Masters Degree in Agriculture and Applied Economics and a BSc (Honours) in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are agriculture and economic development in general and food security, agribusiness, marketing and policy analysis in particular. He has experience in conducting socio-economic studies and evaluations in the agricultural sector of Zimbabwe.
Tendai Murisa
Tendai Murisa is a development practitioner and is currently the Executive Director of TrustAfrica. His main areas of interest focus on promoting processes of inclusive development through research, policy advocacy and the development of innovative systems of inclusion and equitable access to economic opportunities. He has co-edited two books, published several book chapters and journal articles on development issues mostly focusing on land and agrarian reforms, the role of agency in improving livelihood opportunities and also on financial inclusion amongst the poor. Tendai holds PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University in South Africa.
Mzime Ndebele-Murisa
Mzime Ndebele-Murisa is an Ecologist. She holds a PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology from the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Mzime has extensive experience in biodiversity and conservation, natural resources management, environmental change analysis, aquatic and wildlife ecology and climate adaptation. Mzime also has working experience in field-based research particularly in environmental issues, working with environmental management, research and policy organizations in and outside of Africa and through various networks.
Mukundi Mutasa
Mukundi Mutasa is a social researcher with interests in environmental sustainability, gender and social exclusion, socio-ecological resilience, disaster risk reduction, and indigenous knowledge systems in the broader context of rural development. He possesses an MSc in Development Studies and a BSc in Library and Information Science, and has worked for organisations including Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat, Environment Africa, Ruzivo Trust, UNEP GRID/ Arendal, and Southern Africa Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC).
Patience Mutopo
Patience Mutopo is currently a senior lecturer in the Centre for Development Studies at Chinhoyi University of Technology. She holds a PhD awarded with a Magna Cum Laude from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Cologne African Studies Centre, University of Cologne, Germany. She has published in several internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of Peasant Studies, the Journal for Gender and Development. Her research interests are gender, land and agrarian reforms, livelihood analysis, agricultural value chains, bio fuel production, migration, conflict transformation approaches, human rights and policy analysis.
Munyaradzi Aubrey Nyaguse
As a practicing project manager, Munyaradzi Aubrey Nyaguse’s interests have been in identifying and managing value in order to realize intended project benefits. The scope has largely been in the skills development, where Nyaguse is involved in youth unemployment initiatives, such as Artisan Development and Work & Skills Programme, for Western Cape Provincial Government in South Africa. These are intertwined with social development and innovation management. Nyaguse has also consulted in IT, banking and finance and FMCG industries.
Introduction
Tendai Murisa and Tendai Chikweche
Z imbabwe, a Southern African country with a population of about 13.5 million people, has featured regularly in regional and international public conversations since the 1950s on settler colonialism, decolonisation, independence (the politics of reconciliation), contested land redistribution and severe economic collapse. The country is currently in the midst of an economic recovery process after more than 15 years of a debilitating crisis during which it went from being a case study of a semi-industrialised country to a state of economic collapse, a meltdown characterised by record runaway inflation and a serious shortage of basic goods. Whilst the causes of the crisis remains a topic of debate, its negative impact on our politics, the economy and the general social fabric (inclusive of welfare and social services delivery) cannot be disputed. The ongoing recovery of sectors such as tourism and mining accounted for the partial economic recovery. However, this has since stalled and there is evidence of increasing social and economic challenges in the era of the multiple currency regime. These developments and national electoral politics have ensured continued focus and attention on Zimbabwe.
Characterisations of the country’s politics and development trajectory mostly depend on the narrator. In essence any discussion on Zimbabwe has mostly been ‘contested terrain’. 1 Debate is essential for a healthy democracy, and in this spirit we also aim to make a contribution to the legion of ideas on national development (inclusive of the ideas for economic development, politics, social and cultural well-being) through a process of thinking aloud about what needs to be done to shape the future of the country. This is mostly a daunting task especially for those of us who have mostly been trained and equipped with skills to reflect on what has taken place and rarely to project into the future. We are not spiritual sages of any sort, although there is always a temptation to seek for clairvoyance skills given the tumultuous nature of the desired change. Gatsheni-Ndlovu (2013:262) has also aptly observed that such an endeavor is common beyond the grouping behind this book. He remarks that Zimbabweans (in general) like other human beings from across the world do not tire of trying to make sense of their murky present with a view to prescribing the mysterious future. We join others in this endeavour but our approach is based on the belief that recent experiences and

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