Built Africa TV

10 Aug 2020
This conversation is promoted by AFRICA MINDSHIFT POLICY DIALOGUE SERIES and powered by the 1873 FM radio as part of the C2C building of community power to best solve challenges.

The Speakers: Dr Chatiza, Mr Elias Mabaso, and Mr Wellington Muzengeza

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Built Africa TV

3 Jun 2026
Urban informal settlements are increasingly targeted during election cycles as centres of political mobilisation or violence.

East and Southern Africa’s urban crisis is habitually miscast as a shortage of houses or pipes. The real issue is power struggles that weaponise access to land, housing and amenities and treat inhabitants of informal urban settlements, especially the youth, as a means to mobilise political support.

This webinar will examine how informal urban settlements develop their own political economy, in which governments provide the bare minimum of basic services, making residents an ideal social group to mobilise for votes and violence during elections.

This event is co-hosted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Good Governance Africa (GGA).

Moderator: Stephen Buchanan-Clarke, Program Head, Peace and Security Program, Good Governance Africa (GGA)

Panelists:

Dr Mmabatho Mongae, Head, Governance Insights and Analytics, GGA
Wellington Muzengeza, Independent Political Risk Analyst and Urban Strategist
Dr Willis Okumu, Senior Researcher, Transnational Threats and Organised Crime, ISS Nairobi

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Built Africa TV

25 Jul 2026
As satellite internet rapidly expands across Africa, public debate has often become focused on individual providers such as Starlink. This opening statement argues that the more important question is how governments should govern strategically significant digital infrastructure in ways that advance their national interests.

Speaking at the Built Africa Policy Roundtable on Starlink, Digital Sovereignty, and Infrastructure Control in Africa, I argue that this is fundamentally a governance conversation rather than a technology conversation. Technologies will evolve and providers will change, but governance frameworks should endure.

The discussion explores:

• Why strategic digital infrastructure should be viewed through the lens of national strategy
• The distinction between the roles of governments, regulators and markets
• Digital sovereignty as governance rather than exclusion
• Strategic coherence and national interests
• Why Africa requires enduring governance principles rather than provider-specific policies

Key message:

Infrastructure creates leverage. Good governance determines whether that leverage ultimately serves the national interest.

Speaker

Dr Joan Swart is a researcher in Strategic Studies at Stellenbosch University's Military Academy. Her work focuses on strategy, national resilience, digital infrastructure governance and geopolitics.

African Security Insights publishes analysis on strategy, security, resilience and geopolitics from an African perspective.

Event

Built Africa Policy Roundtable

Starlink, Digital Sovereignty, and Infrastructure Control in Africa

22 July 2026

Hosted by Wellington Muzengeza

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Built Africa TV

11 Jul 2026
Sit down at the table with Independent Journalist, Political Risk Analyst, and Urban Strategist Wellington Muzengeza. Currently a Research Fellow at the Africa Centre for Critical Minerals and Energy Transition (ACCET), Wellington brings his interesting perspectives as he chats with Yamalé about African youth and the challenges and potential, land tenure and its political implications, xenophobia and other salient topics.

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Built Africa TV

19 Jan 2026 #mozambique #zimbabwe #africaworldhour
The Nigerian Government has expressed condolences to the governments and peoples of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe following the tragic loss of lives in recent devastating floods. The floods are reported to have claimed the lives of more than 200 people and displaced thousands across parts of Southern Africa after weeks of torrential rainfall that left entire communities cut off. In Zimbabwe, the Manicaland province has been hardest hit, with 41 fatalities and hundreds of displacements. For more on what is happening on that region, we were joined, from Gweru, in Zimbabwe, by Independent Journalist, Wellington Muzengeza.

#africaworldhour #mozambique #zimbabwe

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Built Africa TV

6 Jan 2026
Zimbabwe stands at a critical crossroads—coalition or collapse, reform or ruin. In his article “Coalition or Collapse: Zimbabwe’s Choice Between Reform and Ruin,” journalist Wellington Muzengeza examines political succession, economic transition, and inclusive governance, raising questions about the country’s democratic trajectory.

On #AfricaWorldHour, Wellington Muzengeza (@WellyMuzengeza) joins Tsepiso Makwetla to discuss the implications of the 2030 presidential term extension debate for Zimbabwe’s democratic stability.

Watch the full discussion and join the conversation on governance, reform, and the future of Zimbabwean democracy.

#AfricaWorldHour #Zimbabwe #ZimbabwePolitics #Democracy #Governance #PoliticalReform #AfricaPolitics

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