MSUIR Collection:https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/942024-03-29T13:44:38Z2024-03-29T13:44:38Z" Global media " coverage of the ZDF Iin intervention in governance in Zimbabwe : the case of Al Jazeera and BBCKurwa, Timothyhttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/40722022-06-27T13:49:05Z2018-05-01T00:00:00ZTitle: " Global media " coverage of the ZDF Iin intervention in governance in Zimbabwe : the case of Al Jazeera and BBC
Authors: Kurwa, Timothy
Abstract: This study sought to identify and establish the frames employed by Al Jazeera and the BBC in the coverage of the ZDF intervention in governance in Zimbabwe. The researcher was interested in unpacking all the meanings intended in the coverage of the ZDF intervention in governance. Framing theory informed the study The study employed archival research, textual analysis augmented with critical discourse analysis and prescriptive thematic analysis for data presentation. The study found out that the global media coverage of the ZDF intervention perpetuated the use of the negative frames on Africa such as political instability and conflict, war and coup. Discourses of human rights, democracy and governance were used to vindicate the intervention. Al Jazeera and the BBC portrayed the coup as an intervention aimed at removing a dictator from power. The study concluded that the global media warmed up to the ZDF intervention in governance in Zimbabwe that was anti-Mugabe thus the military intervention was a necessary evil.2018-05-01T00:00:00ZKurwa, TimothyOthering the other? The Herald and the Newsday’s framing of victims, the Harare city council and land barons in the context of the current housing demolitions by the local authority.Nyamayedenga, Johanneshttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/40702022-06-27T13:49:05Z2016-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Othering the other? The Herald and the Newsday’s framing of victims, the Harare city council and land barons in the context of the current housing demolitions by the local authority.
Authors: Nyamayedenga, Johannes
Abstract: The issue of land in Zimbabwe for residential and other purposes has remained a contested terrain between the poor communities and government since the days of the colonial era up to now. The wrangle has seen the subaltern fighting losing battles with the authorities over land. In the 2015/2016 period, government demolished settlements in Harare claiming that they were illegally built on land invaded by land barons and sold to unsuspecting home seekers. Such issues did not escape the eyes of the mass media. Informed by the framing and political economy theories, the study examines how victims of housing demolitions, Harare city council and land barons were constructed by The Herald and Newsday newspapers. The study is largely qualitative and it benefited from qualitative content analysis and interviews with editors and journalists from the two newspapers. The study concludes that victims of the demolitions were „othered‟ in both newspapers as „officialdom‟ prevailed in reporting the demolitions. This means that the media portrayed officials positively while the victims were described as having caused the chaos.2016-11-01T00:00:00ZNyamayedenga, JohannesContesting generational and ethnic discourses in historical accounts of the liberation struggle : a case study of the Sunday Mail column , Chronicles from the second chimurenga.Huni, Munyaradzi Eliashttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/40672022-06-27T13:49:05Z2018-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Contesting generational and ethnic discourses in historical accounts of the liberation struggle : a case study of the Sunday Mail column , Chronicles from the second chimurenga.
Authors: Huni, Munyaradzi Elias
Abstract: Since the attainment of independence in 1980, Zimbabwe’s historiography has been dominated by what Byrnes (2012:3) refers to as “Big History.” This Big History, authored by self-glorifying former nationalists and complemented by willing commissar intellectuals of the early 1980s, silenced the narratives of former fighting forces from the Second Chimurenga, which brought the country’s independence. However, studies utilizing a bottom up approach that is capturing the voices of the less celebrated or rather marginalized former fighters are scare. Zooming on the narratives of these silenced former fighting forces, this study deploys Maurice Halbwachs’ concept of collective memory fused with Terrance Ranger’s patriotic history approach and post-colonial theory in examining the generational and ethnic contestations coming out of The Sunday Mail column, Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga. Utilizing a qualitative research approach and deploying archival research in data gathering, the study also examines how the liberation war account has been constructed in the midst of the generational and ethnic contestations in the column. Through critical discourse analysis and the presentation of data thematically, the study indicates that generational and ethnic contestations started way before the commencement of the Second Chimurenga. Furthermore, the study indicates that throughout the liberation struggle, there was mistrust between the former nationalists and the former fighting forces. The mistrust derailed the liberation struggle and the consequences are still being felt in Zimbabwe, 38 years after the attainment of independence. This study is an approach and a perspective from the silenced former freedom fighters who claim that their victory and history was stolen in 1980. Critically, the study shows ethnic and generational contestations defining Zimbabwe’s nationalistic history.2018-11-01T00:00:00ZHuni, Munyaradzi EliasA social - semiotic engagement with opposition social movements in online newspapers in Zimbabwe : case of #This Flag in the Herald online.Chikwanha, Happinesshttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/40532022-06-27T13:49:05Z2017-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A social - semiotic engagement with opposition social movements in online newspapers in Zimbabwe : case of #This Flag in the Herald online.
Authors: Chikwanha, Happiness
Abstract: The study set out to establish the social-semiotic engagement of oppositional social movements with online newspapers with specific focus on The Herald Online and #This Flag in the period between Aril 2016 and June 2017. While a lot of work has been done around online media globally and in Africa and Zimbabwe in particular a gap still exists in how mainstream media, particularly The Herald newsier has used digital media in its engagement with opposition political forces, particularly opposition social movements which have been critical in the removal of entrenched authoritarian regimes elsewhere. The study took a qualitative approach and used archival digital data gathering methods and interviews whilst social-semiotics and critical discourse analysis were used to interpret and resent the data gathered. Theoretically the study employed Robert Merton’s structural strain theory to explain the causes of social activism whilst The Herald online texts were explored through Gramscian lenses. The study also employed Vannever Bush’s hypermedia theory in exploring the role of The Herald Online audiences in the engagement of the newsier and #This Flag. The study established that The Herald Online sought to defend its support of the government of the day resenting #This Flag as an imperialist project through the use of editorial cartoons, hard news and opinion reports. The study also established that The Herald Online sought to downplay #This Flag activities referring not to recognize the social movement by name. The study therefore recommended that The Herald Online would not lose anything by accommodating dissent in its mainstream reports yet maintain its pro-government position as a way of authenticating its defence of the status quo where the latter’s policies are justifiably beneficial to society.2017-11-01T00:00:00ZChikwanha, Happiness