Abstract Historically, many governments in developing countries of the world had to resort to direct participation in the productive sectors of their economies owing to the dearth of private capital. Hence,a multiplicity of public organizations were set-up. From the experience of most of these countries, public organizations have mostly failed to achieve their goal–attainment function. Some inconclusive studies have pointed, among other factors, to the effect that social values may have on ...
Abstract Natural regeneration is an important component of forest dynamics, therefore the knowledge of the forest and requirements of different species are vital for proper planning of sustainable forest management. It is also important to understand how abiotic and biotic factors affect forest regeneration. This study looked at the effect of browsing, plant competition and fire on the regeneration of woody species in Onkumbula community forest in northern Namibia. The study was divided into ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to come up with a solution to problems that were being faced at the ZESA I.T department with regards to the way users report issues to the helpdesk and how support officers respond to these issues. ZESA I.T Support Ticket Management System is a web-based automated computer system that sets smart rules to prioritize and automatically assign support tickets to support officers and administrators. The end users or customers submit tickets regarding their...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to find ways to balance significant cost cutting while maintaining profits in a cost reduction exercise of Mega Pak (Pvt) Ltd. The need for the research emanated from the company’s total costs that were rapidly increasing as well as the projected decline in profits and increase in costs as a result of price controls that were instituted by Delta, the company’s major shareholder and customer which contributed 55% of the company’s revenue. The research m...
ABSTRACT Hypertension now largely affects low and middle income countries with a higher prevalence of 46% in African adults of 25 years and above. In Zimbabwe the prevalence of hypertension ranges from 30% and 40% regardless of the cut off and this has been consistent and high in the urban areas than rural areas mostly due to urbanization. The increase in the prevalence rates reported is mostly thought to be attributable to certain unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors such as smoking, excessive...
ABSTRACT. Agricultural biotechnology is gaining momentum in shaping production globally. It ranges from molecular diagnostics, vaccine technology, genetic modification and tissue culture. The study, however, focused on one aspect of agro-biotechnology, that is, the impact of tissue culture in banana plantlets on Banana productivity. The study contributes to the international debate on biotechnology and small scale farming. It argues that agricultural biotechnology, especially the use of tissu...
Abstract The China-Africa relationship has been showing its frailties as build on capitalist matrices in nature, with China being a capitalistic sadist and Africa a masochist. Unlike the West which uses philanthropy a guise for their misanthropy, China has an economically palatable approach called investment, which bring more complication to the African polyandry dilemma (state of being caught in between the Capitalist giants and pseudo communist giants). The Zimbabwe-China engagement present...
ABSTRACT Many world firms like Enron have collapsed while others like Afrasia Kingdom Zimbabwe Limited have gone on the verge of collapsing after auditors have audited without picking any irregularities, for this reason questions are raised on the reliance that can be placed on external auditors. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the extent on which users of the financial statements can rely upon the audit opinion when making economic decisions. Data collection instruments of...
ABSTRACT Over 8,000 skill based graduates and artisans were trained during 2011-2012 from various Vocational Education and Training (VET) Centres in Namibia. Despite the skills gained and government spending of more than N$270mill during the 2012 /13 financial year, graduates fail to start businesses. The overall objective of this research study was to establish which factors influence skills based graduates and artisans to start a business, by answering three questions. This study assessed t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of debt finance on financial performance of a firm using City of Mutare as a case. City of Mutare adopted debt financing in order to enhance their financial performance but their trend analysis illustrated a decline in profit margins at an average rate of 45.03% per annum since 2014, this motivated the researcher to carry out this study.The study employed a mixed approach in carrying out the study which include both quantitative a...
ABSTRACT Child labour has become a societal problem globally which calls for attention from different institutions. International as well as national instruments have been put in place trying to address the phenomenon however, it still remains on the increase. As a result of the research the root causes of the problem was discovered to be poverty as well as orphans and vulnerable children who are now child headed because of HIV and AIDS. The major reasons of the study was to determine type of...
ABSTRACT Tomato production is being limited especially during the rainy season due to the incidence of fruit rotting due to pest and disease attack. Due to the aforementioned limitation, modification of microclimate by trellising can assist improve crop yield. A 5*2 plus control factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design with three replications was carried out at Chiredzi Research Station in the 2013/14 rainy season in an open field environment to study the effects of timing a...
ABSTRACT The political-theological problem has been a hot air since Ancient Greece philosophy until the modern political philosophers ranging from Weber, Machiavelli, Nieschtze, Marx among others who declared the death of the religion on the public sphere and being buried by modernity and secularism in the private sphere. The philosophers went on to predict the vanishing of religion even in the private sphere at an earlier stage than now. With the religious groups gaining prominence in the pu...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study research was to determine the impact of debt finance on financial performance using a case of a company in the telecommunications sector and which is not quoted at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange: TelOne Pvt Ltd. The major issue that gave rise and prompted the researcher to study across this area was the increased levels in debt funding of projects in the organisation of which no increase in financial performance was being marked. The study employed a mixe...
ABSTRACT Ineffective budgeting and budgetary controls in nonprofit organisations have impacted negatively in sourcing funds to carry out humanitarian Aid. Ineffective budgetary controls in non profit organisations has also affected the implementations of projects and has left most vulnerable persons helpless as the organisations fail to secure more funding. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of budgeting and budgetary control in sourcing funds in nonprofit organizatio...