The study objective was the examination of business sustainability challenges facing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in selected districts in Zambia. The study assessed whether the challenges lead to lack of operational and financial sustainability, and thereby, develop a broadbased theory in the form of a holistic framework for managing SME sustainability in Zambia. To achieve the objective, the study adopted a mixed method approach using both qualitative and quantitative methods; p...
Student performance is important if a country is to develop in all sectors of development. This is to a large extent dependent on teacher performance. The performance of grade 12 pupils for the past three years has been deteriorating. Statistics from the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) for the past three years indicates a decrease in the pass rate from 2013 to 2015 at 60.2%, 55.9% and 57% respectively as a proportion of Candidates obtaining full School Certificates (ECZ results 201...
Legislation plays an important role in the provision of national and public library services. In Zambia, however, libraries that perform the functions of national and public libraries are operating without a legislative mandate. As a result, there is fragmentation of library services as there is no single institution which performs all the functions of a national library service. Although several efforts have been made in the past to enact national library service legislation, no Act of Parli...
Mining is the key sector to Zambia’s economic development. The sector is a major contributor to national export earnings and employment. Nevertheless, the importance of mining industry to the economy depends on sustained high levels of production output. As such, Lubambe Copper Mine (LCM) under Konkola North project was commissioned in 2010 with the view of producing 200,000 tonnes of Ore per month by 2014. However, this target could not be achieved due to the high rate of drill rig breakdo...
ABSTRACT Farming has a huge potential in offering employment to the youth considering its wider labour absorptive capacity. Despite the recognition of employment creation, youth participation in working as a farmer is low due to their attitudes towards farming. The current study describes socio-economic factors that influence formation of youth attitudes in Kuresoi Sub-County, Nakuru County, Kenya. A sample of 120 youths was selected randomly from registered youth groups. Data was collected ...
This thesis is entitled “The Challenges of Peacebuilding in Matebeleland North and South Provinces. Zimbabwe (1980-2010).” The main objectives of this study include to establish the major factors contributing to failure of peace-building in the Matabeleland North and South Provinces. Another objective of the study is to evaluate the approaches that can be used to achieve sustainable peace building in the two provinces. Some of the research questions were: What are the major reasons for ...
The use of dairy technologies can substantially increase farm productivity and income. Despite this fact, adoption of such technologies has been generally low among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The purpose of this study was to assess uptake and perceptions of dairy technologies by smallholder farmers of Monze, Choma and Kalomo districts of Zambia. The study sought to identify dairy technologies that had been introduced, factors influencing the uptake and farmers understanding ...
Road traffic accidents have become common place in Zambia and they are responsible for the death of hundreds of people in our country annually. Recent times have witnessed a number of measures being implemented by the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) in order to make our roads safe but ultimately to reduce road carnage and save lives. However, with all these things in place, instead of going down, the number of Road Traffic Accidents in our country continues to rise. The study was c...
Recent figures on Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) indicate that 45% of Zambian children are stunted. Maternal exposure to nutrition and health information are essential elements that may influence the nutritional status of under-five children. However, very few studies have placed emphasis on community based nutrition education. The aim of this study was to contribute to the pool of knowledge with regard to the nutritional status of the under-five children in Zambia with special reference t...
ABSTRACT Military intervention has attracted a lot of scholarly attention in the recent past, with many scholars interested in interrogating the motives and justifications for the practice. Many of these studies have mainly focused on military intervention externally rather than the involvement of the military in internal security operations. By examining the rationale and dynamics of Kenya Defence Forces’ (KDF) interventions, this study sought to put forward a prism for internal military ...
Introduction Information ethics provides an ethical framework for library professionals to carry out information related works such as acquiring, storing, processing, making available and using information. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with human conduct, more specifically the behaviour of individuals in society. Ethics examines the rational justification for our moral judgments; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust (Kaddu 2007). With increasing re...
ABSTRACT Karl Popper (1902 – 1994), a Vienna-born philosopher advanced a liberal theory of Incremental Change also known as “piece meal social engineering” which prefers reforms to revolution. He had argued that in view of the ontological fallibility of human rationality, the safest course in human actions should be to make sure that all programmes of change are advanced in small steps so that unexpected ill-effects of any action is closely checked. For him, socio-political revolution ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to identify and describe the articulation and phonological impairments in the speech of 6-14 year old learners of English as a second language in primary school with cerebral palsy. Further the study also established the linguistic interventions employed by the teachers to assist the learners affected by articulation and phonological impairments as a result of cerebral palsy. Optimality theory was used to account for the impairments through mapping of competence and ...
Following a realisation that during each plebiscite in Zimbabwe, scores of people are injured, killed and displaced due to the intensity of political violence, this research was carried out to focus on the possible role of traditional taboos in restraining the behaviours of the conflict perpetrators. This is against the fact that traditionally, taboos were used as a policing mechanism in respective communities. However, due to the advent of globalisation, modernity and other influences, some ...
EXTENDED ABSTRACT Rice leaf blast is a rice disease caused by fungus Pyricularia oryzae Cavara. The disease is widely spread in all rice ecological systems in Zanzibar viz; rainfed upland, rainfed lowland and irrigated. In Zanzibar rice is a staple food crop that serves 3.1 millions people but the crop is highly infected with rice leaf blast disease a major producton constraint. A comprehensive survey was conducted in six districts of Zanzibar islands covering three districts in Unguja viz: ...