Abstract This research is about media experience and contemporary Public Relations (PR) practice. It entails how media experience preferably as a journalist aids to the works of a PR practitioner. In the practice of contemporary PR there are skills that are therefore expected to package an ideal PR practitioner of today, this study then comes in to unveil them. There have been current developments in the practice of PR due to the advent of technology thus one has to keep abreast on the expect...
ABSTRACT This study explores the experiences of white females in Rhodesia during the liberation war. For this purpose, ParticiaChater’sCrossing the Boundary Fence (1991), Sylvia Bond Smith’s Ginette (1980) and Nancy Partridge’s To Breathe and Wait (1986) have been selected as they fit in well in the context of experiences faced by white women during the liberation war. The feminist literary approach is used as it examines the experiences of white females in the context of the Zimbabwean...
Abstract There has been general consensus that regional integration is the way forward for underdeveloped countries and in particular those in Southern Africa. While it is true that regional integration is the solution to some if not many of the problems being faced by these countries as seen from successful integration initiatives in Europe for example the European Union (EU), very few scholars focus on the challenges of regionalism and regional integration in Southern Africa. The study focu...
Abstract The study looks at the representation of adult characters in Zimbabwean Children’s literature. It mainly focused on the depiction of women from various geographical settings. Issues affecting the representation of women were therefore brought to light from a feminist literary perspective. Children’s literary works which include Hanson’s Takadini, Sigogo’s Visit to the Gods and Hozo’s Tapiwa and the Kidnappers were used as the basis of the research.
ABSTRACT This study explores how the jokes and cartoons that are circulated on WhatsApp fuel/challenge ethnic prejudices between the Shonas and Ndebeles. Ethnic differences and tensions which escalate into conflict between Shona and Ndebele ethinic groups date back to the pre-colonial period. Social media networks particularly WhatsApp seem to have presented the two groups with an opportunity to entrench or question these negative attitudes between them. To assess the way new social networkin...
TABLE OF CONTENTS I.DECLARATION II.DEDICATION III.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IV.SUMMARY CHAPTER 1 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 1 1.2 Background of the study…………………………………………………………………….. 2 1.3 Statement of the problem……………………………………………………………………...4 1.4 Objective of the study…………………………………………�...
Abstract Discourses framing football reflect dominant, possibly, contesting „truths‟, which themselves are linked to power relations and struggles within a given society. This study analyses the framing of the Zimbabwe men‟ national football team (popularly known as The Zimbabwe Warriors) in The Sunday Mail, The Patriot and the Daily News on Sunday from March 2015 to April 2016. The three newspapers were purposively selected for being weeklies with a national coverage. A comparative ana...
Abstract This research is a study on the history of the Mutare Museum which was opened to the public in 1964 but this study focus from its humble beginnings from 1954 up to the contemporary period. The research shows the success and failures of the museum throughout its existence. Through an analysis of interviews and oral sources the research presents the chronological summary of the museum. The establishment of the museum was first established as private entity by the colonialist but was la...
Abstract The study aims to analyse the causes of irregular remuneration, employee coping strategies in an environment of irregular remuneration and identification of the most and least effective coping strategies. Irregular remuneration is caused by various factors such as mismanagement of funds and economic meltdown. Without elimination of the causes of irregular remuneration employees are forced to engage in various activities for survival by trying to eliminate the problem or employing str...
Abstract The purpose of this research was to analyse the uptake of agricultural insurance services by the agricultural sector for sustainable socio economic development in Zimbabwe. The research covered the period of 2000 to 2015. The research focused on A1 and A2 farmers which consisted of subsistence and small-medium scale commercial farmers. Agriculture is a risky enterprise due to its cyclical nature, risk of loss from fires and natural disasters. The researcher established that agricultu...
ABSTRACT Double consciousness in not peculiar to African Americans who have suffered from the injustices of slavery. It can be traced among those who are excluded from center to the periphery in domination and control, irrespective of race or location. Though the white race has considered whiteness as a stable identity, or signifier of rationality, sanity, power, it can be noted it is an unstable identity that is always under construction. White people also find themselves occupying the botto...
Abstract This study sets motion for systematic academic investigations on the Algiers Charter of 1975 and film production in Zimbabwe and Africa at large. The charter stipulates that filmmakers should be committed to the development of an ‘African’ cinema, radically different from previous cinematic representations of Africa by the Western world, rejecting commercial influence. Despite the centrality of the charter in film production, systematic academic studies on the phenomenon in the Z...
ABSTRACT The Research Thesis has the aim of interrogating gender dynamics in pornographic films. The research focuses on masculine characteristics, feminine characteristics, masculine and feminine relationships and film techniques used and their effect. The study will interrogate these gender dynamics in three films which are Kelly’s Public Disgrace by kink, Tarzan X Shame of Jane and Fifty Shades of Grey XXX Adaption. Qualitative research methodology was used to carry out the research. Lib...
ABSTRACT The research focuses on the transformation of ‘Imbube’ music in Zimbabwe. It interrogates the role and value of the transformation of ‘Imbube’ music in Bulawayo. The study is largely qualitative but it also employs some quantitative techniques. Similarly the study uses data collection methods such as structured and unstructured interviews, questionnaires, focus group discussions and document analysis in collecting data from ‘Imbube’ groups, audiences and academics. The Af...
ABSTRACT Governance in Africa has been since driven by poor policy formulation and lack of political will by leading officials. Decentralisation has mainly been used to bribe the masses given that African states are a product of colonialism and for redistribution of resources to mean equality in accessing them. African states has decentralised power of which decentralisation as a process suffered incompletion in practice. Since 1980 the government have been aiming at eradicating poverty throu...