ABSTRACT Urban population growth has created an increase in demand for food including those of animal origin. In response to ample market, urban and peri-urban livestock farming has expanded both in the number of livestock and the number of households engaged in livestock keeping. As a result, human-animal interaction has increased and concurrent increase in manure production within the same land space has increased human-manure-environment contact. The present study was aimed at investigatin...
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 Tanzania started a countrywide lymphatic filariasis elimination programme in 2000 adopting the mass drug administration (MDA) strategy. The drugs used for the MDA programme are a combination of ivermectin and albendazole. Clinically, the initial stages of lymphatic filariasis present as an acute febrile conditions with adenolymphangitis (ADL). Later on the disease is characterized by development of scrotal swelling (hydrocele) and swelling of the legs (lymphoedema) which gradually le...
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 The dissertation is mainly focused on the widows continued experiences of property inheritance violations in Zimbabwe particularly Zengeza 1 and 5 in Chitungwiza. The cause and reasons why widows are still being disinherited their property rights after legal laws were implemented to protect them. Widows before the Administration of Estates Amendment Act of 1997 they faced violations towards their right to property inheritance. The first born usually the son or a male relative was the...
ABSTRACT Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an enzootic/endemic zoonotic disease affecting human and animals in Africa and caused epidemic in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The RVF is caused by the Rift valley fever virus (RVFV) of the order Bunyavirales, family Phenuiviridae, genus Phlebovirus. Outbreaks of RVF have a devastating impact on human and animal health in Africa, with heavy economic loss due to the banning of livestock export and the loss of food meat, coupled with human infection. They are ofte...
ABSTRACT The study makes a comparative analysis of how ChiHwesa and ChiManyika resolve vowel hiatal configurations. The dialects are against the VV sequence in structures and this triggers the application of the resolution strategies to break the vowel sequences. The comparative analysis was examined in the theoretical framework of optimality theory proposed by prince and Smolensky (1993), McCarthy and Prince (1999) and Kager (1999) which argues that constraints are universal and they belong ...
ABSTRACT As an important source of income and protein, local chickens are widely reared by a majority of rural and peri-urban households in many developing countries including Tanzania.However, these birds are seasonally exposed to challenging environments that includehigh temperatures and decreased scavengeable food materials.It was hypothesized that local chickens bred from different regions of Tanzania might have selected ecotypes with stronger tolerance to high temperatures andsuboptimal ...
ABSTRACT The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in sharing information is very important in enhancing fish farming productivity among fish farmers. However, little is known on the linkage that exists between the use of ICTs and fish farming productivity in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. The main objective of this study was to assess the use of ICTs to enhance information sharing for improved fish farming productivity in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Specifical...
ABSTRACT Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Tanzania since it was first reported in 1954. Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by FMD virus (FMDV) that presents in seven serotypes. The FMD outbreaks that occur almost each year are caused by different serotypes in the country. With its large area of 945 000 km2 and its climate which varies from tropical to temperate, large number of livestock including 25.8 million cattle (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, 2016) and high de...