@article{MAKHILLPJSS2012947624,
    title = {An Analysis of the Challenges to the Regime Change Agenda in Zimbabwe 2000-2010},
    journal = {Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences},
    volume = {9},
    number = {4},
    pages = {195-203},
    year = {2012},
    issn = {1683-8831},
    doi = {pjssci.2012.195.203},
    url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1683-8831&doi=pjssci.2012.195.203},
    author = {Douglas},
    keywords = {ZANU PF,regime change,regime change agenda,Robert Mugabe,repression,political dexterity},
    abstract = {The regime change agenda has dominated political discourse 
  on Zimbabwe for more than a decade. The ruling party (ZANU PF) has since 2000 
  been intensely engaged in a fight to ward off regime change machinations by 
  neo-liberal Western forces and domestic opposition groups seeking a transition 
  from authoritarian rule to democratic governance. The study unearths several 
  futile strategies and schemes that were hatched to remove Robert Mugabe and 
  the ZANU PF regime from power. This study shows how the ZANU PF regime did not 
  make sole use of authoritarian means to thwart the regime change agenda as has 
  been argued by the West but equally relied on a mixture of repression, popularity 
  and political dexterity to repel incessant regime change plots and remain hegemonic 
  on Zimbabwe’s political landscape. 
  Strategies employed to ensure regime persistence include asset re-distribution, 
  anti-imperialist rhetoric, media control and the teaching of nationalist patriotic 
  history amongst others. These tactics presented massive challenges to regime 
  change agents. The discourse grapples with these challenges to the regime change 
  agenda in Zimbabwe. The stydy is premised on Gramsci’s 
  work to analyse the challenges to the regime change agenda. His theory aptly 
  examines the struggles for hegemony and legitimacy, elements considered crucial 
  to the survival of any political regime.}
    }