Dominant narratives about the contemporary problem of “fake news” and cyber-propaganda
have focused on how its evolution and manifestation has been closely linked with the rise of …

Many studies have documented how repressive regimes appropriate traditional and digital
media for propaganda, legitimation, and demonization purposes, but little has been written …

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South
Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic …

In his analysis of the 2013 elections in Zimbabwe, Donald Moore stopped short of saying
that Zimbabwean democracy had breathed its last. Moore noted that a combination of …

This thesis analyses the representation of the nationalisation of mines debate, as a
developmental policy discourse, by the South African corporate media. Essentially, the …

Memories of the nationalist struggle are fervently contested in Zimbabwean public spaces
such as the media. This paper examines the emergence of the counter‐hegemonic historical …

The political and economic crisis that beset Zimbabwe since the late 1990s forms the
backdrop to this study which examines the discourses that occupied a position of dominance …

Facebook, like many other new media phenomena, has been touted as an emancipatory
and revolutionary medium, especially in 'blocked democracies'. Such characterisations fail …

This chapter analyses the emergence, development and role of constitutional and human
rights movements in Zimbabwe, and the alliancing that civil society organisations within …

The post-independence ruling class in Zimbabwe carefully combined coercion and consent
to assert its hegemony from the day it assumed state power. It implemented this through …