Covid-19 fully exposes Zimbabwe’s comatose economy
- Authors: Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Covid-19 pandemic , Zimbabwe's economy , Lockdown regulations
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/434308 , uj:37590
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- Authors: Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Covid-19 pandemic , Zimbabwe's economy , Lockdown regulations
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/434308 , uj:37590
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Is Zimbabwe on the cusp of mass protests over the country’s worsening economic malaise?
- Authors: Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/452228 , uj:39881
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- Authors: Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/452228 , uj:39881
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Seeking barriers to the development of knowledge transgressivity potential (KTP) : lessons from a postgraduate student survey at the University of Johannesburg
- Dworzanowski-Venter, Bronwyn, Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Authors: Dworzanowski-Venter, Bronwyn , Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Knowledge transgressivity potential , University of Johannesburg , University of Johannesburg - Students
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5598 , ISSN 09766634 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14311
- Description: Institutional mergers coupled with the distinction between teaching-focused ‘comprehensives’ and traditional, research-intensive universities are evidence of differentiation in action within South African higher education. Comprehensive institutions such as the University of Johannesburg (UJ) are relatively underresearched. A UJ-based survey of postgraduate students (n=300) suggests the possibility of knowledge transgressivity within and outside of UJ. However, the development of a transdisciplinary platform [to facilitate the evolution of knowledge transgressivity potential (KTP)] between natural and social science-focused postgraduates, is likely limited by perceptual class and race barriers, with the former proving most influential. Moreover, inter institutionalKTP between UJ, as a comprehensive, and WITS, as a traditional university, is present, but limited by material class barriers, such as fees differentials. Nevertheless, findings suggest that KTP could be developed at the junior postgraduate level if class perceptions and structural legacies are to be overcome. Comprehensives like UJ are capable of more than solely fulfilling an undergraduate teaching function as such, they should enjoy more research attention. While all South African universities contribute to transformation and competitiveness in distinct ways, the rigid demarcation, and potentially inadvertent ‘privileging’ of some South African universities, should be avoided. This is critical as such demarcation cannot lead to long-term institutional integration and increased potential for true knowledge transgressivity.
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- Authors: Dworzanowski-Venter, Bronwyn , Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Knowledge transgressivity potential , University of Johannesburg , University of Johannesburg - Students
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5598 , ISSN 09766634 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14311
- Description: Institutional mergers coupled with the distinction between teaching-focused ‘comprehensives’ and traditional, research-intensive universities are evidence of differentiation in action within South African higher education. Comprehensive institutions such as the University of Johannesburg (UJ) are relatively underresearched. A UJ-based survey of postgraduate students (n=300) suggests the possibility of knowledge transgressivity within and outside of UJ. However, the development of a transdisciplinary platform [to facilitate the evolution of knowledge transgressivity potential (KTP)] between natural and social science-focused postgraduates, is likely limited by perceptual class and race barriers, with the former proving most influential. Moreover, inter institutionalKTP between UJ, as a comprehensive, and WITS, as a traditional university, is present, but limited by material class barriers, such as fees differentials. Nevertheless, findings suggest that KTP could be developed at the junior postgraduate level if class perceptions and structural legacies are to be overcome. Comprehensives like UJ are capable of more than solely fulfilling an undergraduate teaching function as such, they should enjoy more research attention. While all South African universities contribute to transformation and competitiveness in distinct ways, the rigid demarcation, and potentially inadvertent ‘privileging’ of some South African universities, should be avoided. This is critical as such demarcation cannot lead to long-term institutional integration and increased potential for true knowledge transgressivity.
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The other face of the Zimbabwean crisis: the black market and dealers during Zimbabwe’s decade of economic meltdown, 2000-2008
- Authors: Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/93934 , uj:20410 , Citation: Chagonda, T. 2016. The other face of the Zimbabwean crisis: the black market and dealers during Zimbabwe’s decade of economic meltdown, 2000-2008
- Description: Abstract: This paper explores the Zimbabwean crisis from the lens of dealers who benefitted from the chaotic and highly speculative Zimbabwean economy during the decade of crisis (2000-2008). The impression created by the bulk of the literature that has been published on Zimbabwe during its decade of crisis is that the political impasse and economic meltdown left a trail of impoverishment in the country. This paper challenges this widely held perception by arguing that even though the Zimbabwean crisis wreaked havoc for most Zimbabweans’ livelihood, this is not entirely true for some of the dealers who made a ‘killing’ from Zimbabwe’s burgeoning black market during the decade of crisis.
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- Authors: Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/93934 , uj:20410 , Citation: Chagonda, T. 2016. The other face of the Zimbabwean crisis: the black market and dealers during Zimbabwe’s decade of economic meltdown, 2000-2008
- Description: Abstract: This paper explores the Zimbabwean crisis from the lens of dealers who benefitted from the chaotic and highly speculative Zimbabwean economy during the decade of crisis (2000-2008). The impression created by the bulk of the literature that has been published on Zimbabwe during its decade of crisis is that the political impasse and economic meltdown left a trail of impoverishment in the country. This paper challenges this widely held perception by arguing that even though the Zimbabwean crisis wreaked havoc for most Zimbabweans’ livelihood, this is not entirely true for some of the dealers who made a ‘killing’ from Zimbabwe’s burgeoning black market during the decade of crisis.
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‘Getting involved on campus’ : student identities, student politics, and perceptions of the Student Representative Council (SRC)
- Nyundu, Tony, Naidoo, Kammila, Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Authors: Nyundu, Tony , Naidoo, Kammila , Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Student Representative Council (SRC) , Gender differences , Racial identity
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/69599 , uj:17888 , Citation: Nyundu, T., Naidoo, K. & Chagonda, T. 2015. ‘Getting involved on campus’ : student identities, student politics, and perceptions of the Student Representative Council (SRC).
- Description: Abstract: Since 1976 when school students in Soweto took to the streets in active defiance of the apartheid state, students as a political constituency have always been admired, noted and feared for the political positions they have taken and campaigns launched. South African student organisations in the 1980s and 1990s a ligned themselves with mass democratic movements and engaged with and shaped their agendas. Commentators suggest however, that the nature and character of student organisations have changed in post-apartheid South Africa, and consequently, also students’ interest in ‘getting involved’. With regard to SRCs, while many authors argue that SRCs are no longer a ‘revolutionary force’ and have become either retrogressive or disempowered, others suggest that more effort needs to be made to understand the content of ‘new’ SRCs in post-apartheid South Africa and their appeal to diverse student populations. This paper seeks to establish the attitudes of University of Johannesburg (UJ) students towards voting for, and supporting, the Students Representative Council (SRC), and, for involving themselves in student politics at UJ. In making sense of students’ perceptions, the paper probes differences and similarities in terms of four key factors: gender, race, year of study, and residential background.
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- Authors: Nyundu, Tony , Naidoo, Kammila , Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Student Representative Council (SRC) , Gender differences , Racial identity
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/69599 , uj:17888 , Citation: Nyundu, T., Naidoo, K. & Chagonda, T. 2015. ‘Getting involved on campus’ : student identities, student politics, and perceptions of the Student Representative Council (SRC).
- Description: Abstract: Since 1976 when school students in Soweto took to the streets in active defiance of the apartheid state, students as a political constituency have always been admired, noted and feared for the political positions they have taken and campaigns launched. South African student organisations in the 1980s and 1990s a ligned themselves with mass democratic movements and engaged with and shaped their agendas. Commentators suggest however, that the nature and character of student organisations have changed in post-apartheid South Africa, and consequently, also students’ interest in ‘getting involved’. With regard to SRCs, while many authors argue that SRCs are no longer a ‘revolutionary force’ and have become either retrogressive or disempowered, others suggest that more effort needs to be made to understand the content of ‘new’ SRCs in post-apartheid South Africa and their appeal to diverse student populations. This paper seeks to establish the attitudes of University of Johannesburg (UJ) students towards voting for, and supporting, the Students Representative Council (SRC), and, for involving themselves in student politics at UJ. In making sense of students’ perceptions, the paper probes differences and similarities in terms of four key factors: gender, race, year of study, and residential background.
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