Studies on new media in Zimbabwe tend to highlight the role of news websites in widening the democratic space and countering the government's hegemonic nationalist discourses that are perpetuated in state-controlled media. Scholars such as Mpofu and Mhlanga and Mpofu have argued that new media are emancipatory spaces that are enabling the people of Matabeleland to ...

This article examines the intersection of collective memory and Ndebele ethno-nationalism manifesting on three Zimbabwean news websites. Focusing on Newzimbabwe.com, Bulawayo24.com and Umthwakazireview.com, this article explores how Ndebele memories are recollected, mediated and transmitted in ways that shape and solidify a sense of what some writers term a hiraeth...

The advent of new media has transformed the processes of remembering past events. Although studies by Mpofu, and Mhlanga and Mpofu discuss the counter-hegemonic role of the Internet in enabling Ndebele communities to recount their traumatic memories of Gukurahundi none of these works have probed how survivor testimonies are reconstructed and disseminated through ne...