See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil? The press, violence and hooliganism at the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’
- Ncube, Lyton, Munoriyarwa, Allen
- Authors: Ncube, Lyton , Munoriyarwa, Allen
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Zimbabwe , Hooliganism , Battle of Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/257837 , uj:27096 , Citation: Ncube, L. & Munoriyarwa, A. 2018. See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil? The press, violence and hooliganism at the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’.
- Description: Abstract: Matches between Zimbabwean Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams Dynamos FC and Highlanders FC are popular but controversial. In 2004, Robson Sharuko, senior sports editor of The Herald newspaper, dubbed this game the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’. The fixture usually explodes into ugly scenes of violence. Such incidents hardly evade the eyes of the mass media. However, growing scholarship on Zimbabwean football have under-theorized this violence. The essay deploys the framing theory and Foucauldian discourse to analyze the framing of selected episodes of violence at the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’ by two state-controlled newspapers – The Herald and the Chronicle, which fall under the Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) stable. The study shows that contrary to the common perception that The Herald and the Chronicle provide monolithic accounts on events, they furnish heterogeneous narratives on violence at this fixture. This heterogeneity is influenced by ethnic tensions between two dominant ethnic groups in Zimbabwe – the Shona and the Ndebele.
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- Authors: Ncube, Lyton , Munoriyarwa, Allen
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Zimbabwe , Hooliganism , Battle of Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/257837 , uj:27096 , Citation: Ncube, L. & Munoriyarwa, A. 2018. See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil? The press, violence and hooliganism at the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’.
- Description: Abstract: Matches between Zimbabwean Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams Dynamos FC and Highlanders FC are popular but controversial. In 2004, Robson Sharuko, senior sports editor of The Herald newspaper, dubbed this game the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’. The fixture usually explodes into ugly scenes of violence. Such incidents hardly evade the eyes of the mass media. However, growing scholarship on Zimbabwean football have under-theorized this violence. The essay deploys the framing theory and Foucauldian discourse to analyze the framing of selected episodes of violence at the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’ by two state-controlled newspapers – The Herald and the Chronicle, which fall under the Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) stable. The study shows that contrary to the common perception that The Herald and the Chronicle provide monolithic accounts on events, they furnish heterogeneous narratives on violence at this fixture. This heterogeneity is influenced by ethnic tensions between two dominant ethnic groups in Zimbabwe – the Shona and the Ndebele.
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So, who is responsible? A framing analysis of newspaper coverage of electoral violence in Zimbabwe
- Authors: Munoriyarwa, Allen
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Electoral violence , Zimbabwe , ZANU PF
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/445857 , uj:39021 , Citation: Munoriyarwa, A. 2020. So, who is responsible? A framing analysis of newspaper coverage of electoral violence in Zimbabwe.
- Description: Abstract: This study examines how the 2008 election violence was framed in three mainstream Zimbabwean weekly newspapers – The Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Zimbabwean. It was noted that four frames – the victim, justice and human rights, trivialisation and attribution of responsibility frames dominated the coverage of electoral violence in these three newspapers. The dominance of the trivialising frame in The Sunday Mail privileged the ruling party’s, Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU PF’s) interpretation of electoral violence as inconsequential to the electoral process. Simultaneously, the prevalence of the victim, justice and human rights frames in The Independent and The Zimbabwean newspapers signifies the private media’s obsession with ZANU PF’s alleged electoral malpractices and situate these alleged transgressions within a broad global social justice and human rights trajectory to cultivate the West’s sympathy with the “victimised” opposition.
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- Authors: Munoriyarwa, Allen
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Electoral violence , Zimbabwe , ZANU PF
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/445857 , uj:39021 , Citation: Munoriyarwa, A. 2020. So, who is responsible? A framing analysis of newspaper coverage of electoral violence in Zimbabwe.
- Description: Abstract: This study examines how the 2008 election violence was framed in three mainstream Zimbabwean weekly newspapers – The Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Zimbabwean. It was noted that four frames – the victim, justice and human rights, trivialisation and attribution of responsibility frames dominated the coverage of electoral violence in these three newspapers. The dominance of the trivialising frame in The Sunday Mail privileged the ruling party’s, Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU PF’s) interpretation of electoral violence as inconsequential to the electoral process. Simultaneously, the prevalence of the victim, justice and human rights frames in The Independent and The Zimbabwean newspapers signifies the private media’s obsession with ZANU PF’s alleged electoral malpractices and situate these alleged transgressions within a broad global social justice and human rights trajectory to cultivate the West’s sympathy with the “victimised” opposition.
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