The urban roots of democracy and political violence in Zimbabwe : Harare and Highfield 1940 1964 Charles Mzingelis leadership and imperial working class citizenship Township protest politics Resistance to the Urban Areas Act and womens political influence Changing tactics : youth league politics and the end of accommodation The early sixties : violent protests and sellout politics The imperialist stooge and new levels of sellout political violence The ZAPU ZANU split and the battlegrounds of Harare and Highfield