ABSTRACT This study is on the role of the School Head ineffective implementation of the competency-based curriculum in rural primary schools in Hwange District. Study objectives were: to explore the roles and responsibilities of school heads as curriculum leaders; to determine how school heads manage curriculum change for effective curriculum implementation; to establish resources that must be available to ensure effective curriculum implementation in schools; and to proffer strategies that ...
ABSTRACT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ADVENTIST PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH BOTSWANA CONFERENCE: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE WAYS FORWARD By Machinda Guzha This study sought to investigate Human Resource Management in Adventist Primary Schools in South Botswana Conference: Challenges and Possible Ways Forward. It is a case of two schools that are run by the South Botswana Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Botswana. The study was centred on the issues that affect the human resources i...
ABSTRACT Intertextuality is the presence of a text in other texts, intertextuality can be something that a reader identifies when reading a text or it can be deliberate connections that a writer makes to other existing texts. The objective of the study is to analyse the anthology, State of the Nation and find out if the poets made any reference to already existing works as well as find out if the reader can make connections to already existing literary works.
Abstract The study sought to determine the effectiveness of corporal punishment as a way of achieving discipline in schools. Corporal punishment was illegalised but continues to be in use in secondary schools, and this pushed the need for the study. The study employed a descriptive research design. The population of the study included teachers, learners and heads in High schools in Sanyati District. A sample of nineteen teachers, eighty-five learners and three heads of schools was used in thi...
ABSTRACT This dissertation is an assessment of the effectiveness of the poverty alleviation strategies implemented by the World Vision and KLGC in the Tongwe area. The research was generally motivated by the individual concerns which have also influenced the focus of the project topic, the research problem as well as the area of study which is home to the writer. The central factor that has affected the writing of this academic paper was the ever growing need inside the Tongwe rural areas in ...
ABSTRACT The demographic analysis shows that young people constitute the majority of the population yet, are underrepresented in democratic structures. Civil society organizations have made attempts to increase youth participation in the broader framework of enhancing citizen participation. The study therefore looks at ways Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT) as representative of civil society organizations is using media advocacy in increasing youth participation with a critica...
ABSTRACT Public service delivery is essential to citizens worldwide. Service delivery therefore is providing basic needs which are essential in life such as housing, water supply, waste management, sewerage reticulation and treatment and if residents are denied those basic needs the environment becomes unfriendly and they are subjected to a lot of discomfort and prone to diseases. However, looking at the Zimbabwean context due to economic instability and financial constraints it has crippled ...
Abstract Bulawayo has struggled with water scarcity since its inception in 1894 and even after the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980. The irony was that while the City of Bulawayo celebrated 120 years of existence in 2014, water scarcity challenges were still a living memory and a reality - a situation that has witnessed its residents living without water, the industries struggling without water and even the authorities’ witch hunting a more feasible and sustainable solution to end water sho...
ABSTRACT The research was an exploration of how The Herald and dailynews cartooned the ZANU PF factional fighting from August 2014 to April 2015. The objective of the research was to reveal the various political discourses hidden in political cartoons by The Herald and dailynews in the reportage of ZANU PF’s factional fighting.A qualitative research paradigm was used for the study where archival research was used to obtain the cartoons which were purposively sampled. In- depth interviews we...
ABSTRACT This research was an investigation into the influence of factionalism to political economics. The study was naturally focused on factional tendencies within ZANU-PF and the consequences to Zimbabwe’s political economy from 2013 to 2016. In this case, this study automatically adopted a qualitative research methodology due to its confidential nature and pre-requisition to directly interact with society and the components under investigation. The study employed a two-dimensional sampl...
Abstract Most governments in African societies are characterised by failure to address their electoral promises hence the degree of public service delivery is not all inclusive in the sense that it is mainly anchored on political affiliation while marginalising descending voices. It is against this background that this study seeks to assess the effects of party politics on public service delivery in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development. The agricultural sector...
Abstract Youths in Zimbabwe constitute a greater proportion of the total population and are the most marginalised group within the African societies in terms of resource distribution. Therefore, the government of Zimbabwe involves the youths in the economy by introducing the Indigenisation and Economic policy, which was supported by numerous programmes. To address the issue of unemployment the government decided to establish the Youth Development Fund in conjunction with the financial institu...
Abstract Social media have been hailed as liberative in contexts of political repression. In Zimbabwe, there are emergent debates on the possibilities of using Facebook to ‘democratise’ political space. But the use of Facebook to settle personal political scores or to relentlessly attack political opposition seemed to have escaped academic scrutiny. This study looks at the use of Facebook by opposing camps in Zimbabwe’s July 2013 election to attack each other, as well as the challenges ...
ABSTRACT The study set out to establish the social-semiotic engagement of oppositional social movements with online newspapers with specific focus on The Herald Online and #This Flag in the period between Aril 2016 and June 2017. While a lot of work has been done around online media globally and in Africa and Zimbabwe in particular a gap still exists in how mainstream media, particularly The Herald newsier has used digital media in its engagement with opposition political forces, particularly...
ABSTRACT The determination of this research was to investigate the implications of the Zimbabwe‟s elections drawing the past experience focusing mainly on the 2008 and 2013 elections. From the case study and the whole research, limited information was gathered, since the implications are still an ongoing thing in the Zimbabwean political environment. It also comes at the heart of this research to scrutinise and to gather as much information that would fill the void by the analysis of a plet...