Abstract The study examines the position of traditional games as a form of informal education in Zimbabwe, with a particular focus to Matsapa in the HondeValley region. African traditional games was an important educative tool which was used during the pre-colonial era to teach children real life experiences and instill life skills in them which would carry them the rest of their life The study makes use of qualitative research design using key informant, unstructured in-depth interviews and ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of dollarization on pensioners in Zimbabwe with Old Mutual as a case study. The objectives were to find out how dollarization affected retirees and ways to compensate the aggrieved pensioners. A review of literature on the subject of dollarization was done and the findings provided a good foundation in the understanding of the. Data was collected by way of questionnaires and interviews from a sample size of twenty people randomly selected from a populat...
ABSTRACT The rock art of southern Africa, Zimbabwe included, depicts a variety of symbols and characters that portray humans, animals, ceremonies and motifs of a spiritual nature. A lot of explanations have been proposed as to the function and meaning of rock art in general with the most accepted explanations linking the art to shamanism. This hypothesis (shamanism) argues that rock art paintings were created by shamans depicting dreams or visions of an individual seeking medicine or particip...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the challenges that are faced by full time teaching heads in primary schools in Shurugwi district with a view to suggest strategies that can be used to solve these challenges. Literature review indicated that heads are faced with challenges that include dual roles and time management. It also suggested that these can be solved through delegation of duties and having non teaching heads in all schools. The research was qualitative in nature so it adopted a...
Abstract The study investigates whether the Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Bill of 2017, is needed in Zimbabwe. The bill is yet to be enacted into law and it is still waiting for the President‟s signature. The study seeks to find out the different contestations surrounding the bill and to highlight some major concerns in as far as cybercrimes and cybersecurity are concerned in Zimbabwe. Law enforcing agents, internet users and news articles were used as the research population in a bid to hea...
Abstract Digital media in Zimbabwe came about at a time media trends were changing the world over as a result of the advent of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). However, the situation in Zimbabwe was rather unique in that the evolution coincided with a deteriorating socio-political economic situation which resulted in a sizeable population of the country migrating to South Africa, Britain, Australia and the United States among other territories. The media landscape in Zimbabwe wa...
ABSTRACT The history of the Tonga have it that, the introduction of the fishing villages initially and then later the cooperative system in Binga District from the 1950s-2015 saw the Zambezi Tonga lose their fishing rights. The study traces events paying particular attention to the changes which were introduced to the Tonga fishing practices from the period of the forced relocations to the period 2015. The argument advanced in this research is that the fishing cooperatives system has never be...
ABSTRACT Malaria disease remains a major health burden to the world; infecting 350-500 million people and killing over 1 million each year. Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) Report identifies African countries as the worst hit, accounting for about 90% of the global deaths, with Nigeria representing one quarter of the continent’s malaria burden. Pregnant women and Children under the age of five mostly in Africa are the most vulnerable group. Over the past few decades, global interest in mal...
ABSTRACT The study was based on employee perception of grievance management with its link to workplace justice, a case study of City Of Harare Council. The research was qualitative in nature; henceforth descriptive research design was employed. Moreover the research was carried out with seventeen participants to represent the population and data was collected using face to face in-depth interviews. To add more the data collected was presented using verbatim and then the results were ultimatel...
Abstract The issue of land in Zimbabwe for residential and other purposes has remained a contested terrain between the poor communities and government since the days of the colonial era up to now. The wrangle has seen the subaltern fighting losing battles with the authorities over land. In the 2015/2016 period, government demolished settlements in Harare claiming that they were illegally built on land invaded by land barons and sold to unsuspecting home seekers. Such issues did not escape the...
ABSTRACT This study is in the area of literal studies. This study focuses on the Manifestation of self- hatred in Mabvumira enhetembo published by Literature Bureau during colonial period. This study is driven by Afrocentricity that seeks to revive and resurrect African culture and African philosophies of life. Couched and guided with Afrocentricity, the study also relies on the information obtained from respondents acquired through interviews and questionnaires. The research participants inc...
ABSTRACT Zimbabwe is rated as one of the poorest countries in the world, a scary fact considering that the country is endowed with vast mineral resources like diamonds, natural gas and gold which if effectively used could make it have one of the strongest economies on the continent. In order to make this possible, there is a need to ensure that growth at a local level is fostered by the central government and this growth should be uniform so as to ensure that there is no concentration of deve...
ABSTRACT This study focused on marine fisheries data collection, management and utilization which diminished the ability of fisheries to be effectively managed and leading to under-reporting. The Delphi methodology was selected as the most appropriate means to achieve the goals and objectives of this study because it provided a way to solicit and gain consensus by experts on Namibian fisheries data collection and management. The major findings were mostly the low interest of stakeholders in t...