Abstract The Zambezi Trans frontier park is one of the world’s largest conservation areas and is one of the homes for the African elephant, scientifically known as the loxodonta Africana. The African elephant is one of earths largest land mammals and also one of the worlds objectified creatures. Over the years since 1970 the global demand for ivory has risen to levels that are threatening the extinction of elephants due to poaching. Poaching has resulted in massive decline, by almost half i...
ABSRACT The Government of Tanzania has exempted the elderly from cost sharing in health service delivery as it is stipulated in the National Ageing Policy and in the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty in Tanzania. However, the majority of the elderly do not get the services freely. The main objective of this study was to assess factors influencing access of the elderly to free health services. The study was conducted in Iringa and Makete Districts. A cross-sectional design ...
ABSTRACT Studies were carried out to establish ethno-botanical information and biological activities of crude extracts from Commiphora swynnertonii against selected microbes of veterinary importance in chickens. Initially, a questionnaire survey was conducted to gather information on practices and knowledge on ethno-botanical uses of C. swynnertonii in the study area. Then extracts from different morphological parts of the study plant were tested against selected bacteria and fungi in vitro u...
ABSTRACT Non-Governmental Organisations’ (NGOs’) access to funds has remained a problem despite several interventions focusing on improving it. The main objective of this study was to assess NGO funding and its implication for delivery of services. Specifically, the study sought to examine funding patterns for NGOs’ service delivery, analyse determinants of access to funding by NGOs, determine attitude of beneficiaries towards service delivery and to determine linkages between access to...
ABSTRACT Zimbabwe’s clothing and textile sector has been facing a serious challenge from cheap imported clothing as well as second–hand used clothing and there has been no serious concern about this problem from policy makers. The research is titled an analysis of cheap clothing imports as a challenge affecting the revival of the textile and clothing sector. In this regard the research appraised the negative impact that cheap imported clothing and textiles is posing to the local textile a...
ABSTRACT Crop production in semi-arid areas is faced with different challenges that resulted into low crop productivity, low household income and food insecurity. The main production challenges in these areas are declining soil fertility and moisture stresses. The integration of different techniques, which restore soil nutrients at low costs and improve soil moisture can be used as a strategy to cope with these constraints and ensuring sustainable crop production. The purpose of this work was...
ABSTRACT The overall aim of the study was to shed light on the main reasons behind skills training of inmates in prison workshops with specific reference to Harare prison workshops as it is the biggest among all prison workshops in Zimbabwe and it offers a lot more programs when it comes to the rehabilitation of the offender. The study was triggered by the need to shed light on the importance of the skills’ training initiative for those in custody as it is part of the rehabilitation program...
ABSTRACT Adoption of innovations in paddy farming has a potential to impact productivity. The Government of Tanzania in partnership with non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) like Kilimo Trust (KT) have been promoting rice sector through implementation of agricultural programmes and strategies whereby among other initiatives farmers are encouraged to adopt innovations. However, the adoption of innovations by farmers is not sufficiently explored. The overall objective of the study was to asses...
ABSTRACT A Social History of Childhood in Mwenezi district is a detailed study of human evolution from birth to puberty. The Zimbabwean definition of a child as anyone below the age of 18 was used in this research. For the sack of knowing who are the Hlengwe the researcher starts by giving the History of the Hlengwe. First chapter gives a full detailed research about the origins, migrations, effects of Mfecane on Hlengwe societies, coming of colonialism and economic disempowerment of the Hlen...
ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a multimodal discourse analysis of the representation of the fact of “blackness” and “whiteness” in Leon Schuster There is a Zulu on My Stoep (1993) and Mr Bones 1 (2001). By examining the interplay of the multiple modes engaged in the regime of comedy, the study examines how the two dichotomies are represented in the film narrative of comedy. What need to be recognized is the notion that film as text is divorced of meaning. Meaning is constructed by the...
ABSTRACT TV has been considered as powerful on its watchers particularly on their behavioural limit and their social values. The review looked at the impact of western film on Zimbabwean adolescents. The review was tied down on the cultivation theory which takes a glimpse at the impacts of TV on the estimations of its group of onlookers. The second hypothesis which was utilized is cultural imperialism theory which demonstrates that overwhelming western media substance force their social value...
ABSTRACT While the topical areas of hospitality service provision have been systematically investigated for the general travelling public, universal accessibility to include people with disabilities has been widely ignored. This descriptive study, attempts to provide some insights into this phenomenon. An analysis of strategic universal accessibility implementation in Zimbabwe’ hotel sector was done. Self administered questionnaires and personal interviews were used to gather data from the ...
ABSTRACT Rock art studies have always been a key source of information to archaeologists in a bid to reconstruct past life societal practices. Most scholars argue that the execution of rock art was a means of documenting the social, economic and political activities. Studying rock art sites therefore provide a detailed insight in to the activities that were done by prehistoric communities at a global view. In order to understand the meaning behind rock art, one has to first of all document th...
ABSTRACT This study is motivated by Theology of Development, mostly focusing on the paralysis of Aid at the expense of economic trade. It seeks to unravel and find out the real deal African communities can benefit from (Trade and Not Aid) through a study carried out in Wards 1 and 6 of Mubayira constituency the study looks at the model of African economies of Aid based/dependency as evidenced in Malawi and many parts of Africa. In many of these parts, aid has been the major focus and expected...
ABSTRACT This is a critical discourse analysis of how ideological domination and power were reproduced in the CNN representations of Africa and Africans in the coverage of the Ebola crisis. The research also sought to establish if the CNN could have provided a conduit for racism in its framing of the disease. The research used a qualitative research methodology. The research was theoretically informed by the theories of representation and decolonial theory. It generally emerged in this thesis...