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...
ABSTRACT This dissertation seeks to examine and analyse the historical explanation of women led churches in Zimbabwe tracing from GutaRaJehovah which was formed by Mai Chaza in 1954. The study portrays that the church grew during the colonial era where patriarchy was dominant and suppression of women was rampant and were restricted to many sorts of life. The church expanded because of healing practices which were performed in the church, it became popular to many African countries and abroad....
Abstract The objective of this dissertation is the exploration of the plight of women in PVs of South Eastern Zimbabwe during the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe 1970-1980. The study focuses on how the establishment of the PV strategy made uneasy life for the local people especially women. The PVs were introduced by the Rhodesian government as a counterinsurgency measure to contain guerrillas. In order to complete the research objectives, the dissertation is based on various case studies of ...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the role performance of local government councils in agricultural development in south-east Nigeria. Specifically, the study was designed to: ascertain role expectations of LGCs agriculture departments as perceived by LG agriculture/veterinary department staff and farmers, determine agricultural role achievements of LGCs as perceived by LG staff and farmers, ascertain LGs’ funding for agriculture from 2007 to 2011, identify linkages that exist between farmers, LG...
ABSTRACT Robert Nozick’s Entitlement Theory consists of three principles of justice in Acquisition, in Transfer and in Rectification. The entitlement theory of Nozick entails that a person is entitled to a holding if he followed the principle of acquisition, transfer and rectification. Raising the issue of equitable distribution and individual appropriation, Nozick’s entitlement theory of individual right and private property right defends free market and absolute private property right. ...
ABSTRACT The quest for hermeneutics of exousia in the gospel of Matthewtranslated to mean authority or power and the need to unravel the evangelical mandate-the exigent call to make disciples of all nations became imperative in view of inherent abuse of power, unbridled level of corruption and blatant waste of resources seen in our African sociopolitical sphere. These the researcher sees as a result of corrupt privileged political class in Africa using Nigeria as a case study. The Church that...
Abstract The study investigates survival strategies of Bustop TV and Magamba TV in Zimbabwe’s uncertain media landscape. The study is situated in a conceptual framework that looks into revenue models such as the dual-product marketplace and advertising revenue model. It makes use of the qualitative paradigm with a focus on case study. In-depth interviews were used as methods of data collection. The online media organisations like the traditional media organisations depend on revenue models ...
ABSTRACT Contemporary societies have become bedevilled by environmental problems like drastic climatic change, health problems, and the loss of land, habitats, and wildlife. In most places these problems are a direct consequence of man‘s exploitation of nature. Since it is arguable that attitudes influence action, the hitherto unquestioning dependence on anthropocentrism as a guide to the man–nature relationship may be blamed for these environmental crises. The realization that there was ...
ABSTRACT This study emphasized on the phenomenon and systems of traditional worship especially among the Agbaja people namely Ezeagu and Udi Local Governments of Enugu State, Nigeria. This work in other words, aims at exposing the structure of the traditional worship of the people from the ages past to the present. It bears in mind how it could harmonize and enhance the understandings that exist in the premises of the people’s traditional religion mostly among the indigenes. To achieve this...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to discuss and assess STEM implementation in rural secondary schools. The study mainly focused on two rural schools in Zhombe, Kwekwe District in the Midlands province. The schools are Siyaphambili Gwenzimkulu secondary school and St Faith Manzimnyama secondary school. The study sample comprised of ten teachers (five from each school) selected using purposive sampling and seventy students (thirty-five from each school) that were selected using the ...
ABSTRACT Corporate governance is blend of law, regulation and appropriate voluntary private sector practices which enables the organization to attract financial and human capital to perform efficiently. Generally corporate governance involves a set of relationship amongst the company’s management, its board of directors, its shareholders, its auditors and other stake holders. Corporate governance is the process carried out by a board of directors and its related committee on behalf of and f...
Abstract The study was carried out in Harare Metropolitan Province focusing particularly on the United Family International Church (UFIC). The study sought to understand, with particular reference to U.F.I.C, the rise of Charismatic Pentecostalism in the face of harsh political and economic conditions facing Zimbabwe. The study made use of mixed method research a methodology which includes the integration of the qualitative and quantitative research methods as the main research methodology. T...
ABSTRACT This dissertation makes an assessment of Zimbabwe’s Diplomatic Communication Strategies and analyse the impact exerted by these strategies on the political, social and economic welfare of the country.Over the years diplomacy has been regarded as a less important aspect of a country’s development since the way states and their subjects communicates to the outside world have been trivialised and thus side-lining the power of actions and the spoken word. Zimbabwe among other 3rd wor...