ABSTRACT Grand Coalition cabinet is a terminology used interchangeably with power sharing government, GPA, IG, GNU. The study aims to unravel the temporal resolutions and stability brought by the emergency of Grand Coalition Cabinet (GCC), popularly known as the Government of national unity (GNU) in Zimbabwe. The research dwells much on different temporary economic, political and social developments and improvements brought up by GCC during states’ economic, political and social chaotic and...
ABSTRACT This study is an examination of how selected Nigerian novelists have, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of selected Nigerian novels dealing with a specific society struggling within difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. The analytical focus is on six primary texts, ...
ABSTRACT This research study focused on heritage as a driver for human development and makes an assessment of the socio-cultural benefits of heritage tourism use to communities surrounding heritage places. The thrust of the study was to know how Matendera ruins as a heritage resource has benefited the surrounding communities socio-culturally. The study reveals the extent of the Collett plan in enabling community development from heritage tourism, the of community involvement at Matendera and ...
ABSRTACT The main objective of this research is to assess the social impacts of internal displacement on human security using the case study of the Chiadzwa Diamond Mine. This project was achieved by interrogating the way of living the displaced persons have after being relocated to new places and how their lives have been affected both negatively and positively and the conditions they are living under. This project asserts the dangers that the living conditions have on human security. The re...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the rise and fall of the mining industry in Zimbabwe focusing on ZISCOSTEEL. The study was carried out in Redcliff the home town of ZISCO. This research was mainly based on primary sources which includes books, news papers, archived company files and most importantly oral interviews. It was found out that the iron and steel industry dates back to pre-colonial times were indigenous people mined and processed iron to make tools like axes, hoes and weapons. Large s...
Abstract The study examines the position of traditional games as a form of informal education in Zimbabwe, with a particular focus to Matsapa in the HondeValley region. African traditional games was an important educative tool which was used during the pre-colonial era to teach children real life experiences and instill life skills in them which would carry them the rest of their life The study makes use of qualitative research design using key informant, unstructured in-depth interviews and ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of dollarization on pensioners in Zimbabwe with Old Mutual as a case study. The objectives were to find out how dollarization affected retirees and ways to compensate the aggrieved pensioners. A review of literature on the subject of dollarization was done and the findings provided a good foundation in the understanding of the. Data was collected by way of questionnaires and interviews from a sample size of twenty people randomly selected from a populat...
ABSTRACT The rock art of southern Africa, Zimbabwe included, depicts a variety of symbols and characters that portray humans, animals, ceremonies and motifs of a spiritual nature. A lot of explanations have been proposed as to the function and meaning of rock art in general with the most accepted explanations linking the art to shamanism. This hypothesis (shamanism) argues that rock art paintings were created by shamans depicting dreams or visions of an individual seeking medicine or particip...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the challenges that are faced by full time teaching heads in primary schools in Shurugwi district with a view to suggest strategies that can be used to solve these challenges. Literature review indicated that heads are faced with challenges that include dual roles and time management. It also suggested that these can be solved through delegation of duties and having non teaching heads in all schools. The research was qualitative in nature so it adopted a...
Abstract The study investigates whether the Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Bill of 2017, is needed in Zimbabwe. The bill is yet to be enacted into law and it is still waiting for the President‟s signature. The study seeks to find out the different contestations surrounding the bill and to highlight some major concerns in as far as cybercrimes and cybersecurity are concerned in Zimbabwe. Law enforcing agents, internet users and news articles were used as the research population in a bid to hea...
Abstract Digital media in Zimbabwe came about at a time media trends were changing the world over as a result of the advent of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). However, the situation in Zimbabwe was rather unique in that the evolution coincided with a deteriorating socio-political economic situation which resulted in a sizeable population of the country migrating to South Africa, Britain, Australia and the United States among other territories. The media landscape in Zimbabwe wa...
ABSTRACT The history of the Tonga have it that, the introduction of the fishing villages initially and then later the cooperative system in Binga District from the 1950s-2015 saw the Zambezi Tonga lose their fishing rights. The study traces events paying particular attention to the changes which were introduced to the Tonga fishing practices from the period of the forced relocations to the period 2015. The argument advanced in this research is that the fishing cooperatives system has never be...