Abstract This research dissertation was undertaken to increase knowledge of the effects of AIDS related adult mortality on family structures in Namibia. Previous research focused mainly on very specific effects like food security or the needs of OVCs. This research includes changes in family size, form, composition, economic activities and distribution of the care burden as a result of AIDS related adult morbidity and mortality. The researcher combined a critical approach towards the literatu...
ABSTRACT Namibia is one of the driest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and man-made dams play an important role on salvaging water. These dams are however periodically frequented by microalgae blooms that pose devastating effects on the water quality, making water treatment processes troublesome and cost prohibitive. However, these unicellular organisms can be exploited in various ways especially when cultivated in controlled and closed systems under optimal conditions of light, temperature, ...
Abstract Marama bean [Tylosema esculentum (Burchell) Schreiber] belongs to the family Fabaceae and is a candidate for domestication in arid zones. It is indigenous to the Kalahari regions of Southern Africa thriving in low nutrient and low moisture soils. Marama bean seeds exhibit high oil (up to 48%) and protein (up to 42%) content comparable to peanut and soybean respectively. The main purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of previously developed microsatellite markers in di...
ABSTRACT The thesis explored the dynamics of the rhetoric of the language of science on climate change publications. The arguments presented in this study were drawn from a theoretical framework that saw rhetorical arguments, texts and general discourse as instruments of communication of science publications on climate change in Namibia. Thus, Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) was used in this study. The theoretical framework of the study was extended to incorporate the Aristotelian rhetorica...
ABSRTACT This thesis examines the practising of sustainability approaches to education in higher learning institutions in Tanzania from the perceptions and experiences of lecturers and students of four selected universities. Systems thinking and sociocultural perspectives were used as theoretical frameworks. The study sought to respond to the major question: “How do higher learning institutions in Tanzania practice sustainability education?” The study specifically explored the conceptions...
ABSTRACT Contract farming in sunflower as a vertically integrated mode of production and marketing is one of the most important transformations in the agriculture sector in Tanzania. Despite the introduction of CF in sunflower, many challenges persisted. These include unfavourable prices or markets. The reasons or factors for persistence of challenges in sunflower CF was the uniqueness of smallholder sunflower farmers such that the conventional CF arrangement was not fully applicable to it. T...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality-Tanzania, aiming at assessing women‟s socio-economic development in relation to their involvement in MFIs. The specific objectives were to examine those micro-credits services and savings attracting women in MFIs, to analyze the women‟s activities derived from MFIs services, to assess the current and potential collateralization that make MFIs trust women and to assess the contextual factors influencing women‟s socio-economic devel...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers‟ attitudes and competence in the use of ICT as a pedagogical tool. Within this broad objective the study intended to establish a professional development programme based on practice by teachers as a community of learners. The CoPLEG professional development strategy was designed, implemented and evaluated to assess its effectiveness on transforming teachers‟ attitudes and competence in the use of ICT as a PT. Against this broa...
ABSTRACT This study explored age-based perceptions on retirement income spending plans versus actual spending upon retirement among individuals from higher education institutions in Tanzania. The study had four specific objectives; to determine the perceived optimal age to start planning about retirement income spending among individuals from HEIs in Tanzania; establish perceived variations of plans on spending retirement income across age cohorts among individuals from HEIs in Tanzania; exam...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of political culture on power sharing in Zanzibar. The study focused on the 2010 General Elections which saw a Government of National Unity that collapsed with the 2015 General Elections. Specifically, the study focused on: (i) assessing the electorate‟s perception of sharing political power in key political institutions (cabinet, parliament, electoral body, policy agenda) in Zanzibar (ii) assessing the electorate‟s political values in acc...
ABSTRACT Namibian health care workers (health care workers) are affected in providing quality health care services to people who are living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) if they do not have the necessary knowledge, as well as adequate interpersonal communication and counselling skills. In a health care facility set-up, all patients either come from the community or are referred from the wards or other departments by health care workers. The health care worker as a (sender) conveys information (mes...
Abstract The Faint Low-Frequency Radio Universe in Continuum: Exploitation of the Pre-SKA Deepest Survey This thesis presents a thorough and significant work on the properties of radio sources as derived from deep 610-MHz GMRT data and ancillary multi-wavelength data. The faint radio sources at 610-MHz are found out to distances such that the objects are seen as they were when the universe was less than half its current age. These data provide a first look at the faint radio sky at sensitivit...
Abstract Building on current knowledge, the primary aim of the present study was to assess psycho-social correlates of Masculine Gender Role Conflict (MGRC) among homosexual men and to posit and test a model by which the variables (psychological well-being, gay identity development and attitudes towards psychological help seeking behaviour) are related to MGRC. Guided by the Male gender role conflict theory, survey and interviews were used to collect data from 175 homosexual men. The data ana...