ABSTRACT This research sought to highlight how cultural dynamism solved conflicts between the four ethnic groups of Gokwe south. The research argues that clinging to individual cultures and seeing the next person’s culture as inferior was the major cause for conflicts. Therefore accepting one another and bearing in mind that culture is dynamic marked the end of conflicts. As a result people are now living together peacefully and one cannot tell the difference between these groups today. Thi...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to establish the impact of government subsidy on the performance of companies in the cotton industry in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean cotton industry had collapsed to production levels of 9 500 tonnes in year 2014 and the government of Zimbabwe intervened by subsidising cotton farmers through free Presidential inputs support scheme. The costs associated with financing cotton farming, processing it into cotton seeds and lint has proven to be very high and unsustainable to c...
ABSTRACT The study aims to draw attention to the need to have correct and appropriate subtitling in Kannywood movies, so as to elevate its status and promote better grasp of its aesthetics. To highlight the historical background of Kannywood movie industry. Researcher reaches that good and correct subtitling may further enhance audienceship of the esthetics quality of filming and boost communication.
ABSTRACT In to day’s word of mass media advertisement are ever-present and influence people to high extent. It can be said that advertising, as a phenomenon has rapidly developed for the past few decades, thus becoming a futile ground for good communication, and the starting point for making sense of what is bees communicated, is that the participants (writer-reader, sender-receiver, producer-consumer, addresser-addressee etc) cooperate each other (Yule, 2002, 35). Semantic analysis...
ABSTRACT The research is aim to find out the relevance of reading newspapers among students. The majority of students agree that reading newspapers enhancing their reading ability and its develop their grammatical structure, semantic knowledge and creative ability as well as lexical items.
This study is based on sexual vilification of women in H-Metro with the research located in the connections of the theory of sexual objectification, picture theory and tabloid theory. The study is guided by the works of Fredrickson and Roberts, and Harmsworth. The study is of qualitative nature drawing extensive material derived from the archives where fifty (50) newspaper articles were studied, ten (10) interviews conducted as well as my own perceptions as a participant observer. I fixed my ...
ABSTRACT The possibility of a school’s culture influencing school performance has triggered wide spread research in recent years, with the introduction of organisational culture as a field of management studying the 1970s. This topic gained the wide interest of scholars’ attention by 1980. Building from sociological and anthropological perspectives, scholars have argued that organisations could possess a culture-which is the taken-for-granted assumptions and behaviour that makes sense of ...
ABSTRACT The research focuses on human factor development through Ngoma Buntibe performance among the BaTonga of Binga district, particularly of Sinakoma ward. It explores the Ngoma Buntibe performance in the process unravelling human factor development through the performance. The study is basically qualitative but it also employs some quantitative techniques. Similarly the study uses data collection methods that included semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and document analysis in ga...
ABSTRACT This work is about laying a stable and sustainable foundation for democracy through Rousseau’s theory of the General Will. The world over today, people are tending towards democracy. They are quick in pointing out the advantages inherent in democratic rule: that it allows for peaceful change of government; that it ensures accountability and responsibility on the part of the elected representatives of the people; that it allows for people’s participation in government; and the g...
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ABSTRACT The study explored the personal, school, family, peer and community factors that affect the career c h o i c e of high school students in Marondera District. There is no clear process on career choice decisions and hence little is known about the factors that influence career choice among high school students in Zimbabwe. A positivism approach was utilized in the study .A descriptive survey research design was employed and questionnaires were used to collect data. A two stage cluster...
ABSTRACT The study explores the enactment of black masculinities as represented across time in Black Thunder, Black Boy, The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Song of Solomon. Two theoretical frameworks have been used, namely Black Marxism and Connell’s masculinity theory. Male writers’ portrayal of black male characters has been analysed using both Black Marxism and Connell’s (1995) theory of masculinity. However, femalewriters’ representations of black males do not show elements of ...
ABSTRACT The research sought to analyse employees’ perceptions of sexual harassment at Cresta Jameson Hotel. No study has been done so far in Zimbabwe on employees’ perceptions of sexual harassment. The study aimed at determining the effectiveness of strategies implemented at Cresta Jameson Hotel to deal with sexual harassment. The other objective was to establish the impacts of sexual harassment among employees at Jameson Hotel. The research was a case study and used purposive and conven...
ABSTRACT This research examines the vulnerability of both genders in HIV and AIDS narratives focusing on Lutanga Shaba‟s Secrets of a Woman’s Soul (2006), The Haunted Trail by Philip Chidavaenzi (2012) and Valerie Tagwira‟s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006). The novels speak expansively on the issues instigated by societal expectations and the stigmatization in the context of HIV and AIDS. The thesis also focuses factors that influence the vulnerability of both men and women during a time ...
Abstract Zvishavane district has been characterized by poor roads, water problems, food shortages, poor health delivery, poor educational facilities and high rate of unemployment despite the fact that the district is rich in precious minerals such as gold, platinum and diamond. This has been the case in many mining towns in Zimbabwe. In an effort to nationalize the country‟s natural resources, the Zimbabwean government adopted the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment (IEE) policy in 2007...