ABSTRACT The study was aimed at finding the factors leading to secondary school dropout and the strategies that can be used to reduce or eliminate school dropout. The descriptive survey research design was used. Purposive sampling was used to select 30 participants who participated in the study. These included 20 learners, 8 teachers and 2 school heads who all responded to the survey questionnaires. Questionnaires were used in data collection. The research findings showed that there are many ...
ABSTRACT The study looked at chiefs and contestations over power and territory: The case of Njanja people of Buhera District, 1950-2016. The research was motivated by the keenness to find the instability of chieftaincy which was informed by contingent socio-economic and political factors. Contestation over power and territory is the prime problem. This was caused by colonial land policies which started in the 1950s such as the NLHA and the abolition of some chieftaincy that disrupt the custom...
ABSTRACT Indigenous knowledge systems have been part and parcel of the African people’s lives and they still continue to inform much of their lives. These knowledge systems have been marginalized since the colonial era. This study serves to prove the myths and realities associated with indigenous knowledge systems in curing sexual health problems in Zimbabwe, case of Bulawayo. The missionaries and colonial officers collaborated to alienate and marginalize African indigenous knowledge system...
ABSTRACT This dissertation is a study in which the role of ethnicity in African and Zimbabwean politics in general, and in Chipinge in particular is underscored. It is argued in the study that ethnicity has played a central role in the politics of Africa, Zimbabwe and among the people of Chipinge in Zimbabwe. It is also argued in the study that voting among the Ndau people took an ethnic dimension. Voting for ZANU Ndonga and Ndabaningi Sithole, and the MDC against ZANU PF is argued in this st...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to establish the impact and legacy of the RENAMO war on Chipinge District which is located in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. The issue of landmines scattered around the area, boarded issues as well as the increasing number of refugees and refugee camps in Chipinge prompted this study. The research has looked at the incursions of the Matsanga into Chipinge and their impact on the area which include attack on infrastructure, property and the people. Memories of RE...
ABSTRACT The study purports to trace the continuity in the history of the marginalization of former ZPRA combatants paying particular focus to the 1997 vetting process. This endeavor was stimulated by the various vetting exercises have been repeated time and again in which ZPRA veterans have clamored over being constantly sidelined by a system targeted at former ZPRA combatants. The research therefore traces back to the veteran policy shortcomingsof the post Second Chimurenga and how these ...
ABSTRACT This research looks at the trends of Child Prostitution globally, in Africa, in Zimbabwe and in Shamva. It also focuses on the causes of child prostitution as the rate of child prostitution is increasing in Shamva day by day due to poverty, unemployment and violence and abuse. The effects of Child Prostitution and the intervention strategies used by the government as well as the Non-Governmental Organizations to curb child prostitution. Through the use of the information obtained fr...
ABSTRACT The major theme of this thesis is the growth and development of the ethnic group and the ethnic awareness of the Chuka people of ~1t. Kenya region. The thesis begins with the earliest recorded traditions which have been dated c. 1400. It traces the origins and migrations of the three cultural. and linguistic groups - Cushites, Paranilotes and Bantu - which interacted and went into the Chuka amalgam. It demonstrates that Chuka ethnicity which developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth...
ABSTRACT This thesis was an investigation into the conflicts at Njelele sacred place. There had been intense conflicts between various stakeholders over the control and management of the shrine from at least the 1960s to the present. This thesis therefore argue that even though there are many causes of conflicts at Njelele like quest for political control over the shrine, attempts by the post –colonial government to politicize the shrine, ethnicisation or tribalisation of the shrine, cultu...
Abstract This study is aimed at exploring the plight of farm workers in Marondera district in Zimbabwe (2000-2013). The study will focus on the how the fast track land reform programme intensified problems which farm workers have been experiencing, which dates back to the colonial period. The study will focus on how the working conditions and living conditions of farm workers after the fast track land reform programme, looking at the poor wages their given, lack of job security, poor and ove...
ABSTRACT The study explores the plight of mujibas and chimbwidos who were guerrilla aides in the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe. That is to say the horrific experiences they encountered during the war and bringing out their untold stories. It contributes to the historiography of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle by focusing on the effects of violence on the mujibas and chimbwidos. The war which took place between ZANU and ZAPU against the Rhodesian Security Forces from the period of 1960 ...
ABSTRACT The construction of Tokwe-Mukosi Dam in Chivi area resulted in the displacement of thousands of families from their home area to the Chingwizi Transit Camp in Mwenezi District. The idea of the dam construction started in 1998 but faced a lot of drawbacks due to financial strains the country had. In 2014 Chivi area received a lot of rainfall exceeding the average amount the area receives. This saw the area experiencing floods and thousands of families being displaced. The evacuation o...
ABSTRACT The research sought to establish challenges associated with the achievement of automaticityat grade two level with the view to find possible strategies to circumvent the established challenges, consequently enhancing reading and school performance. The study was necessitated by the fact that eleven subjects out of twelve in the Zimbabwean Primary School Curriculum are done in English, for this reason the achievement of automaticity was considered paramount. The study was also necessi...
ABSTRACT The research examines the history of prostitution in colonial Beitbridge from 1950 to 1979. It discusses the coming of women to Beitbridge and the origins of prostitution. The intensification of colonialism forced men into migrant labor. This exposed women to rural poverty since they were left alone taking care of themselves as well as the children. The colonial state preferred male labor and women were denied access to urban life. Women migrated to the town as traders and a few luck...
ABSTRACT Religion is a core component in the social, political and economic sphere of mankind. The impact of religion on child welfare has been underplayed, despite it being the opium of society. The Johane Marange apostolic sect has only gained the limelight for negative reasons, as it has been widely castigated for undermining the basic human rights of its members especially children .Several NGOs have found it difficult to work with the sect, which in reciprocation does not cooperate in th...