Traditional leaders in Zimbabwe

Traditional leaders play many roles in Zimbabwean communities, culture and families.^[1] They help to promote and uphold cultural values,^[2] facilitate development and resolving of disputes in their communities. The institution of traditional leadership is regulated and monitored within the parameters of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.^[3][4] These leaders are put in position by the government of Zimbabwe^[5][6] to work with the people. A chief is not elected into office by popular vote, but through lineage, and is thus in office for life.^[7]

See also

• Zimbabwe Council of Chiefs

References

1. Tinashe Chigwata; Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (2016). "The role of traditional leaders in Zimbabwe: are they still relevant?". Law, Democracy and Development. 20. Cape Town: 69. doi:10.4314/ldd.v20i1.4. hdl:10566/3913. ISSN 1028-1053.
2. "Customary Justice: Zimbabwe – Governance training for traditional leaders". ISSAT: Learn: Resource: Library: Case Studies. Geneva Center for Security. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
3. "An Analysis of Traditional Leadership, Customary Law and Access to Justice in Zimbabwe's Constitutional Framework | Zimbabwe Legal Information Institute". zimlii.org. 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
4. ZimLII. "Traditional Leaders Act[Chapter 25:17]". Retrieved 20 March 2021.
5. Kudzai Mashininga (July 25, 2018). "Traditional leaders in Zimbabwe must toe the ruling party line — or else". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
6. Rodrick Fayayo (July 26, 2018). "Zimbabwe's 2018 Elections: The Changing Footprints of Traditional Leaders". Heinrich Böll Stiftung Green Political Foundation. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
7. "Chieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2020-05-27.

Further reading

• Alexander, Jocelyn, McGregor, JoAnn and Ranger, Terence, (2000) Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the ‘Dark Forests’ of Matabeleland, Oxford: James Currey, 2000
• Beach, David (1980) The Shona: 900–1850, Gweru: Mambo Press, 1980
• Bhebe, N and T. O. Ranger (eds) (1995) Society in Zimbabwe’s Liberation War, Volume Two, Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1995
• Bond, Patrick, and Manyanya, Masimba, (2002) Zimbabwe’s Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice, London: Merlin Press, 2002
• Bourdillon, M (1976) The Shona Peoples: Revised Edition, Gweru: Mambo Press, 1976
• Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace/Legal Resources Foundation, (1997) Breaking the Silence, Building True Peace. A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands 1980 to 1988, Harare, CCJP/LRF, 1997
• Chakaipa, Stephen (2010) Local Government Institutions And Elections, Local Government Working Paper Series No. 4 2010, Community Law Centre University of the Western Cape. Available at Local government reform in Zimbabwe
• Dzingirai, V (1994) Politics And Ideology In Human Settlement - Getting Settled In The Sikomena Area Of Chief Dobola, Zambezia (1994), XXI (ii)
• Fontein, J (2004) “‘Traditional Connoisseurs’ of the Past: The Ambiguity of Spirit Mediums and the Performance of the Past in southern Zimbabwe” Occasional Paper No 99. Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh.
• Government of Zimbabwe (2012) Record of Chiefs in Zimbabwe as at 9 May 2012, Compiled by The Department of Traditional Leadership Support Services in the Ministry of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development
• Hammar, Amanda (2005) Disrupting Democracy? Altering Landscapes Of Local Government In Post-2000 Zimbabwe, Discussion Paper no.9, Crisis States Research Centre, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043844/http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28342/1/dp09^{[dead link‍]}
• Hammar, Amanda, Raftopoulos, Brian and Jensen, Stig (eds), (2003) Zimbabwe’s Unfinished Business: Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis, Harare: Weaver Press, 2003
• Human Rights Watch (2003) ‘Zimbabwe. Not Eligible: The Politicization of Food in Zimbabwe', Human Rights Watch, 15:17A (October 2003)
• Iliff, Andrew (2010) Root and Branch, Tree of Life - Sowing the Seeds of Grassroots Transitional Justice, Oxford Transitional Justice Research Working Paper Series Available at Root and Branch, Tree of Life: Sowing the Seeds of Grassroots Transitional Justice
• Kriger, Norma (2003) Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe. Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980–1987, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Madzudzo, Elias (undated) Communal Tenure, Motivational Dynamics and Sustainable Wildlife
• Makumbe, John (1998) Democracy and Development in Zimbabwe: Constraints of Decentralisation, Harare: SAPES Books, 1998
• Makumbe, John (2010) Local Authorities And Traditional Leadership Local Government Working Paper Series No 2, Community Law Centre, Cape Town, available at Local government reform in Zimbabwe
• Matyszak, Derek (2011) Formal Structures Of Power In Rural Zimbabwe, Harare, RAU available at Formal structures of power in rural Zimbabwe^[usurped]
• Meredith, Martin (2002) Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe, Oxford: Public Affairs, 2002
• Peel, John D.Y. and Terence O. Ranger (eds) (1983) Past and Present in Zimbabwe, (Special Issue of Africa), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983, pp. 20–41
• Raftopoulos, Brian, and Phimister, Ian (2004) ‘Zimbabwe Now: The Political Economy of Crisis and Coercion’, Historical Materialism, 12:4 (2004)
• Ranger, Terence (1985) Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe, London: James Currey, 1985
• Ranger, Terence (ed.) (2003) The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe Volume Two: Nationalism, Democracy and Human Rights, Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003
• Roe, Emery (1995) 'More Than the Politics of Decentralization: Local Government Reform, District Development and Public Administration in Zimbabwe’, World Development, 23:5 (1995), pp. 833–843
• Sicilia, Olga (2011) Oratory in Mhondoro ritual spaces in northern Zimbabwe ―Traditional authority, power relations and local political structures, University of Vienna
• Solidarity Peace Trust (2004) No War in Zimbabwe: An Account of the Exodus of a Nation’s People, Johannesburg: Solidarity Peace Trust, 2004
• Solidarity Peace Trust (2005) Subverting Justice: The Role of the Judiciary in Denying the Will of the Zimbabwe Electorate Since 2000, Johannesburg: Solidarity Peace Trust, 2005
• Vijfhuizen, Carin and Locadia Makora (1998) More Than One Paramount Chief in One Chieftaincy, Zambezia XXV(i) pp 59–81