ABSTRACT The thrust of this research is to show how the centralized system of governance has greatly impacted on the development trajectory of Tsholotsho Rural District Council. It identifies the components of the centralized system of governance characterised by the lack of decision making powers, lack of citizen participation in the both decision making and development processes and the centralised policy making powers which are castigated down to local authorities to implement. The top-dow...
ABSTRACT The study set out to establish why there seemed to be contrasting discourses emanating from The Herald and Newsday’s framing of a proposed opposition alliance prior to the 31 July 2013 elections. While polarisation of the media in Zimbabwe had been documented before, the period in which this study takes place was unique in that the country was in a dispensation of a government of national unity (GNU). The previous polarised environment was expected to have been corrected or at leas...
ABSTRACT This is an original documentation of the system entitled Harare city council interdepartmental office automation system. The system has been designed under the software development life cycle standards and has been development from the current problems currently encountered within this organisation. The Harare city council is relatively a very large organisation and operates under a number of departments and divisions. The offices a distributed around Harare and inter departmental co...
ABSTRACT The support base of the opposition political parties in Zimbabwe has not been reaching out to the rural populations, which has taken a drastic toll on their political victories. The rural populations have either been uninformed or misinformed on issues concerning the political situation and developments in the country and the power party has taken full advantage of that situation. It should be noted that, rural areas have up to 70% of our population, and in these areas there is rampa...
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 ot...
Abstract There has been general consensus that regional integration is the way forward for underdeveloped countries and in particular those in Southern Africa. While it is true that regional integration is the solution to some if not many of the problems being faced by these countries as seen from successful integration initiatives in Europe for example the European Union (EU), very few scholars focus on the challenges of regionalism and regional integration in Southern Africa. The study focu...
Abstract The study aims to analyse the causes of irregular remuneration, employee coping strategies in an environment of irregular remuneration and identification of the most and least effective coping strategies. Irregular remuneration is caused by various factors such as mismanagement of funds and economic meltdown. Without elimination of the causes of irregular remuneration employees are forced to engage in various activities for survival by trying to eliminate the problem or employing str...
ABSTRACT Governance in Africa has been since driven by poor policy formulation and lack of political will by leading officials. Decentralisation has mainly been used to bribe the masses given that African states are a product of colonialism and for redistribution of resources to mean equality in accessing them. African states has decentralised power of which decentralisation as a process suffered incompletion in practice. Since 1980 the government have been aiming at eradicating poverty throu...
Abstract The purpose of this research is to scrutinize the impact of political crises on the judicial independence from 2000 to 2013. Zimbabwe experienced political crises that include violation of human rights, contested polls to mention just a few. These predicaments had a major and negative impact while only a few saw a shed of positivity on the bench. The study brings to light the lack of judicial independence and how this has negatively affected its constitutional mandated duties. The pu...
ABSTRACT The bilateral diplomatic relations of Zimbabwe and China re surfaced in a crucial time of economic and international politics hardship for Zimbabwe. This has caused too much expectation from the Zimbabweans and serious bargain allegations on China from these relations. This has led to a number of people including the international arena questioning the relevance or rather importance of these bilateral relations. Therefore, the focus of the study is on the impact of bilateral diplomat...
ABSTRACT The study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security in conflict transformation in Africa specifically looking at the case of the DRC armed conflicts and other peace threatening related cases. The study was prompted by the need for Africans to realize that togetherness and cooperation can lead to development in the region. This research was accomplished through qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, namely e-mailed questionn...
ABSTRACT Abuse of children has been at peak in Zimbabwe henceforth the need for NGOs such as Justice for Children to step in as agents that promotes the rights of children. The research is entitled civil society and children rights in Zimbabwe: Case of Justice for Children Organisation in Budiriro District Harare 2013 up to present. This research then seeks to determine the activities and contributions of Justice for Children in fighting against the violations of children rights. An analysis ...
Abstract The study reviews how the interplay of socio-economic dynamics shaped policy decisions since 2000. Research findings suggest that the spirit of policy decisions bear the imprint of the prevailing macro dynamics. A climate of siege and anxiety has prevailed since 2000, when the State was in economic crisis, policy interventions were mainly contractionary and low note on local ownership social acceptance. After 2009, into the GNU and its aftermath, policy making was under highly untena...
ABSTRACT This thesis makes an assessment of the role played by NGOs in Zimbabwe’s democratization process. NGOs around the globe have been perceived as partners for development and key players in the field of democracy. Due to their close link to the grassroots citizens they are considered as strategic partners as they resemble the will of the people from below thus promoting democratic values. However this has not been the case in Zimbabwe, the relationship between the government and the N...
ABSTRACT Equality as a concert of sexes is a relatively current observable fact. From the late nineteenth century to date many conventions, policies and institutions have arisen in a bid to promote the equality of man and women. This research was undertaken in an effort to analyse the level at which Local Authorities in Zimbabwe with specific reference to Gweru Municipality, have managed to uphold and achieve 50% equality between men and women in council elections. The research was a signific...