Abstract Politics is a complex game and winning the ballot is not everything. Politicians have to find strategies of keeping themselves relevant to their electorate each time they lose power. As such their portrayal by the media in general and the press in particular constructs or deconstructs them. This study therefore, seeks to look at the audience‟s reception of the dailynews’ portrayal of Morgan Tsvangirai after the 31 July 2013 elections. Fourier (2007) asserts that media texts do no...
ABSTRACT Monopolisation of power by political parties has been a common feature from the past decades and has managed to grab much attention regionally and internationally due to its devastating effects. In Zimbabwe power monopolisation by political parties is the order of the day and the devastating effects of power monopolisation are clearly evidenced by the country’s political and economic deterioration. The study proffer the background on how power monopolisation started and its develop...
Abstract Conflict is inevitable at any given organisation, society, community, groupings, and associations even among family members. The inevitability of conflict is not worthy to be ignored but worthy to be given much attention to be managed. Trying to ignore and deny the existential of conflict within organisations or among individuals will be like ignoring a drop of acid on your own body. Management of conflict is a necessity especially in the public sector. The public sector in Zimbabwe ...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out in Chimanimani district and it seeks to understand the impact of food aid on household food security. The study sampled 40 households using convenient sampling who are the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of food aid. Food aid program is widely debated in the world and has made many people to believe that food aid has a disincentive effect while others believe it is an essential tool for agriculture and food security development. For the past decade, foo...
ABSTRACT Contrary to the expectation that the Indigenization Policies would bring economic empowerment, poverty reduction, rise of employment opportunities and beneficiation of the indigenous people among other things, the vice versa has been largely true in the Zimbabwean context. Thus, a need to determine the extent to which “government interference” has been responsible for the rampant economic dilapidation and perpetual rise in deindustrialization. A juxtaposed class of debate has att...
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to assess the relationship that exist between democracy and economic growth, examining whether the two have an effect on each other, that is, does democracy foster or it actually hinders economic growth and also if economic growth influence a nation to be a democratic or to a be a non-democratic one. Thus the essence of the study is to investigate the robustness of the relationship. Zimbabwe was used as the case study to help out in the conduction of this ...
ABSTRACT The article primarily analyses the effectiveness of the economic empowerment strategies targeted at the community of Mhondoro Ngezi Rural district. Despite abundant mineral resources, the indigenous communities living close to the mines have been deprived of the right to directly or indirectly benefit from the mineral resources. The study utilised a descriptive survey to collect data. The article gives a strong indication of how communities of Mhondoro Ngezi Rural district can utilis...
ABSTRACT This study sought to discover the relationship between poor policies and poor leadership styles basing on the case of Zimbabwe. The task being to investigate the leadership style that govern Zimbabwe and exhibiting how it has affected governmental policies. The study adopted a qualitative design to investigate the effects of leadership style upon policies. From the discovery the study revealed the government of Zimbabwe is democratic in paper but its reality is autocracy. The outcome...
ABSTRACT Traditional leadership institution is one of the most important and respected institution in the rural communities and at national level because of their unifying nature. It is therefore the objective of the institution to serve the community fairly without favoritism or discrimination. The institution unlike the elected officials tends not to serve a certain group of people but the whole community despite political affiliations or background of subjects. Through the above mentioned ...
ABSTRACT The signing of the Lancaster agreement in 1979 led to Land reform in Zimbabwe and to an effort to more equitably distribute land between the historically disenfranchised blacks and the minority whites who ruled Southern Rhodesia from 1890 to 1979.The distribution of land that was held by the government was the most crucial and most bitterly contested political issue surrounding Zimbabwe. The land reform can be divided into two phase‟s form 1979 to 1997 where the principle of willin...
ABSTRACT The establishment of the Audit Office was primarily meant to enhance sound fiscal prudence and promote economic, efficient and effective public expenditure management systems. On this note, the research speculated the public sector auditing in Zimbabwe in particular the performance of the Audit Office in promoting public expenditure management systems. The study is hinges on the Principal Agency theory which serves as its theoretical and conceptual framework. The research study was p...
Table of contents MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY………….……………………………………………...1 APPROVAL FORM ……………………………..……………………………………………..2 DECLARATIION ……………………………………………………………………………..3 DEDICATION …………………………………......................................................................4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS…………………………………...
ABSTRACT This study explored the effects of labour market flexibility to workers’ rights and representation the case study being Harare food and allied industries and the Federation of Food and allied Workers Union.The research was predominantly influenced by the ever-increasing instability of Labour relations and the deterioration of workers representation and rights in Zimbabwean food industries. Capitalist, Keynes and the Classical theories served as the theoretical and conceptual framew...
ABSTRACT The research aimed at analysing the challenges faced by youth in accessing the youth fund using Mutare District as the case study. The researcher went further to illustrate various legal frameworks that the government has established in a bid to deal with the economic, social and political problems facing youth in Zimbabwe. The researcher has focused on the duty of the government in ensuring the fulfillment of the needs of the youth in Zimbabwe. The study looked at the importance of ...
Abstract Youths in Zimbabwe constitute a greater proportion of the total population and are the most marginalised group within the African societies in terms of resource distribution. Therefore, the government of Zimbabwe involves the youths in the economy by introducing the Indigenisation and Economic policy, which was supported by numerous programmes. To address the issue of unemployment the government decided to establish the Youth Development Fund in conjunction with the financial institu...