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...
Abstract The study is an assessment of the effects of the Look East Policy (LEP) on Zimbabwe„s infrastructural development.. Its aim is to collect, describe and analyse the extent to which the infrastructural development of Zimbabweans has been affected by the Look East Policy from 2003 up to 2016. The findings of the research were that the policy had yielded both tangible and intangible benefits as well as negative effects but, not without criticism and impediments. Some of the findings fu...
Abstract Before the advent of the internet, the mainstream media in Zimbabwe and across the globe, enjoyed the privilege of mediating and interpreting football ‘reality’ to the audiences. This ‘privilege’ to mediate reality and the traditional practice of sports reporting in general, is undeniably under threat in this internet age. Academic studies focusing on the influence of internet sites such as Facebook, have overlooked how internet has affected the sport reporting landscape. Thi...
Abstract This research attempts to unearth the dynamics of the struggles of the BaTonga tribe of Binga in the quest for national identity. The research grapples with competing forces which hinders the minority groups in attainment of their autonomous identity without contradicting national question of identity formation project. What has emerged in post-colonial state is conflation of minority tribes into two major competing which are Shona and generalisation of identity of these groups. The ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to establish and interrogate the perspectives of resistance and freedom in films using 12 Years a Slave (2013), a film directed by Steven McQueen, Sarafina (1992), a film directed by Roodt and Three Idiots (2009) directed by Rajkumar Hirani. The research reveals that films serve not only to entertain but to expose hegemonic powers in different societies and ideologies to fight against cruel domination. The films not only depicted freedom from slavery and colonialism...
ABSTRACT Music is central in shaping popular culture for the youth in many societies. This study analyses the contribution of South African music to popular culture among the youth of Nketa and Nkulumane in Bulawayo. Theoretically, the study is informed by identity, uses and gratification and encoding and decoding theories of the media. It adopts a qualitative research approach in conducting the research. The study reveals the different components in which South African music is contributing ...