ABSTRACT Agricultural development lies at the heart of poverty reduction and increased food security in most developing nations. Sub-Saharan Africa is, however, the only region in the world where per capita agricultural productivity has remained stagnant over the past 40 years. Soil fertility depletion and the corresponding declining agricultural productivity in Kenya‟s Ndhiwa Division have led to attempts to popularize Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) technology that could res...
ABSTRACT The study set out to investigate mobile consumption patterns in Triangle, Tongaat Hulett Estates. It sought to unravel the trends in mobile phone use amongst this community and the gratifications they derive from it. The study was informed by the uses and gratifications theory and the digital divide concept. Data was obtained through qualitative interviews and participant observation. Thematic analysis was deployed to analyse the data obtained from findings. The study found that peo...
ABSTRACT Aflatoxins, naturally occurring carcinogenic toxins produced by species of fungi, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, are associated with poor growth outcomes, especially stunting and underweight as well as morbidity in young children. Although evidence supports mother to infant exposure during pregnancy and breastfeeding, evidence of its effect on growth is limited to the period after introduction of complementary foods. It is therefore unclear whether early maternal exp...
ABSTRACT The researcher explores the reportage of artisanal mining and environmental issues by The Sunday News and The Standard from 2017 to date. The research so to find out how the two newspapers frame, give prominence to news reports on artisanal mining and environmental issues in Zimbabwe. The research used the framing, ideology and political economy theories to find out how far these two newspapers give value to news on artisanal mining and environmental issues in Zimbabwe. The research...
ABSTRACT It has now been widely acknowledged that e-governance is the universal remedy to the plethora of woes bedeviling service provision in most rural local authorities in Zimbabwe and even their urban counterparts. E-governance refers to information and communication technology based networks of administration and services that exists in the new public management era. Low revenue inflows, and corruption, low levels of citizen participation and old methods of record and database managemen...
ABSTRACT The overall aim of the research was to provide and establish the guidelines which were supposed to be used by the museum in managing volunteers. The research was based on four main objectives that included the following. Examining how the museum plans for its volunteer programs, assessing the methods used by the museum in recruiting volunteers, assessing how the museum motivates its volunteers as well as to determine the barriers that impede people into volunteering in museums.Using...
ABSTRACT This study is in the field of cultural studies and is on the values celebrated by the Shangani people in komba songs in the post-independence Zimbabwe. The study employs different data collection instruments like interviews and observation methods to gather much needed data in the compilation of this research. Qualitative research design is used in this study because it best suits in the field of social studies. The case study of Mwenezi has been used as the main point of data colle...
Abstract The study will look at how Donald Trump is presented in Zimbabwe‘s public media which is The Herald newspaper. The Herald is well known to be an ideological state apparatus for the ruling government. This is so because President Mugabe‘s government created the state-controlled Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust (ZMMT), a watchdog that eventually took overall ownership of The Herald and its sister papers (Nyahunzvi 2001). In Zimbabwe the media is much more polarized on political lines. Whe...
Abstract Zimbabwe’s economy is nose diving, deteriorating living standards, sky rocketing inflation, unemployment to mention but a few and electorates make their choices based on the policy and economic preferences. Despite these prevailing uncertainties with regards to Zimbabweans, the government and state has been under the guardianship of ZANU PF since independence in 1980. Therefore, this research seeks to investigate and analyze on the factors that influence voter behavior, as this ha...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to investigate the extent to which technology has been harnessed in the teaching and learning of History at the Ordinary level inGweru urban District. The descriptive survey research design was used in this study. The sample constituted thirty ‘O’Level history pupils, six history teachers, three H.O.Ds and three heads of schools in Gweru urban district. The researcher used questionnaires, interviews and observations for data collection. Data was...
ABSTRACT Metaphor is one of the most powerful linguistic devices that convey messages through expanding understanding by relating the unknown to the familiar. Through metaphors, complex issues and ideas can be simplified and therefore restructure concepts and opinions, create solidarity within a community and also be a vehicle to transmit/institutionalize ideology. Research has revealed that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical and what we do and experience every day are very much ma...
ABSTRACT Assessing staff performance is a key aspect of personal appraisal in any organization. It is not unusual to find staff that work and perform at the or close to the required level. It is more common to find employees who have issues which make them not to perform to expectation. Despite the importance of nutrition care in patients’ management, health sector strategic and investment plan show that there is a shortage of nutritionists across the country with patients-nutritionists rat...
ABSTRACT The socio-cultural patterns of the twenty first-century have increased people‘s mobility across the planet. The cultural complexities and interactions that these combined factors generate seem to foster an emerging transcultural orientation. Literature is a mirror of the society and these patterns have not eluded literary writers. Both physical and metaphoric manifestations of dislocation exist in literary works. By way of characterisation and manipulation of a variety of stylistic...
Abstract The role that the indigenous systems of governance in Africa play towards solving some of the social, political and economic problems cannot be overlooked. Contrary to the popular opinion suggesting that African indigenous approaches to conflict resolution are archaic and outmoded, this essay emphasizes the need to rethink the relevance of consensus as a sine qua non basis for conflict resolution in Zimbabwe. Here, consensus is described as a long-established form of compromise that ...
ABSTRACT The study analyzed the discursive constructions of masculine identities in newspapers‟ pullout magazines in Kenya. It examined if there was a disconnect between the way Kenya‟s mainstream newspapers‟ pullout magazines constructed masculinity and the way the readers of these magazines constructed it. The objectives of the study were: to identify and describe the types of masculine identities that are constructed by lifestyle magazines and determine how these magazines justify or...