ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of results based management on service delivery. Gweru Public Works was used by the researcher as the case study. Literature was reviewed in order to establish the existing gap on impact of results based management and service delivery. To capture reality as it was seen and experienced by the respondents the researcher used both qualitative and quantitative of data analysis. During data collection questionnaires and interviews ...
ABSTRACT The study set out to establish why there seemed to be contrasting discourses emanating from The Herald and Newsday’s framing of a proposed opposition alliance prior to the 31 July 2013 elections. While polarisation of the media in Zimbabwe had been documented before, the period in which this study takes place was unique in that the country was in a dispensation of a government of national unity (GNU). The previous polarised environment was expected to have been corrected or at leas...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the role played by local authorities in service delivery using a case study of Kadoma City Council. The study analyzed different sources of service delivery and their contribution to the community at large. The research aimed at bringing out the understanding of the role of local authorities including the factors and causes of poor service delivery which was reviewed and discussed .The role of local authorities in service delivery is vital to human developme...
Abstract The defeat of ZANU PF party in first round of the March 2008 election resulted in a massive violence against its oppositions the MDCs. The violence attracted attention from the international communities, thereby leading to the intervention of SADC in Zimbabwe. The research noted that a summit was held to discuss Zimbabwe’s political violence. The former president of South Thabo Mbeki was to lead a peace keeping mission as a mediator between the ZANU PF party and the MDCs. The negot...
ABSTRACT The study set out to establish why there seemed to be contrasting discourses emanating from The Herald and Newsday‟s framing of a proposed opposition alliance prior to the 31 July 2013 elections. While polarisation of the media in Zimbabwe had been documented before, the period in which this study takes place was unique in that the country was in a dispensation of a government of national unity (GNU). The previous polarised environment was expected to have been corrected or at leas...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on political reporting and electoral violence in Nigeria from 1999-2011. The study notes that crisis has become a regular characteristic feature of virtually all the post-independent elections in Nigeria to the extent that academics across disciplines have concluded that since independence on October 1, 1960, the electioneering process in Nigeria has been an experience of tears, blood and sorrow, (Akinboye, 2009; Akinfeleye, 2004; Olurode, 2011; Ologbenla, 2003; Og...
Abstarct There is increased awareness in recent times of the urgent need to improve valuers‟ methodology and practice along national, regional and international boundaries. This is informed by the growing demand on the side of investors who can no longer accommodate unreliable valuation advice, and instead are requiring sophisticated investment guidance (Gilbertson & Preston, 2005; Ogunba & Ajayi, 2007). This buttresses the strategic relevance of valuation in modern investment decision of...
ABSTRACT The study of the Role of the Print Media in Political Stability in Nigeria (1993 – 1998) was galvanized by the fact that since the end of the civil war in Nigeria in 1970, there was no time the issue of political stability suffered a set back like during Abacha era. While NADECO and other pro – democracy groups were struggling against the regime, government on the other hand was arresting people. The era showed a contrasting trend that needed to be examined. It now became interes...
ABSTRACT Good governance, with respect to how organisations or states are managed has assumed a prominent position in the private and public domains (Abdellatif, 2003; Mbao and Komboni, 2008; Owojori, Akintoye and Adidu, 2009). A review of literature suggests that good governance is very key to tax compliance (Maffry, 1997; Carstens, 2005; Ribadu, 2006; Friedman, 2009; Iwuagwu, 2009; Lu, Huang and Lo, 2010). According to Graham and Bruhn (2009), the decision to impose taxes is not based simp...
ABSTRACT This research studied the impact of regional and international peacekeeping operations on intra-state conflict. It especially studied the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations in the resolution of the Liberian conflict of 1989-2003, and the Sierra Leonean conflict of 1991-1999. The research is carried out using the Case Study Design which involves the detailed examination of a single phenomenon at a time. Case studies thus enable a comprehensive un...
Abstract Zimbabwe is facing a huge amount of inequity in terms of labour relations due to the Supreme Court ruling of 17 July 2015 by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku in the case of Nyamande and Anor V Zuva. This instability within parastatals has become a common feature as the ruling triggered mass terminations on notice without benefits. Morale within the work place subsequently hit a low and by the end of September 2015 it had led to over 30 000 job terminations. The rights workers had pr...
ABSTRACT The research aimed at analyzing the contribution of donor aid to rural development in Zimbabwe, taking Zhombe East as the case study from 2013-2017. This study was undertaken so as to have an evaluation on the work being done by donor organizations that are in Zhombe East on the rural community. Most of the development socially and economically in the area has much to do with donor organizations like Plan International however, there has been debate that these organizations have a hi...
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 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 Since Zimbabwe’s political independence in 1980, the government has been making efforts of trying to raise the living standards of the young people through various means. However, because of a variety of challenges and other factors like colonial policies, national divisions, illiteracy, selfishness and a poorly performing economy amongst others, unemployment has continued to affect the youths in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe youth constitute a large percentage of the population but they w...