ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the effectiveness of English songs towards English language teaching to primary school pupils in Tanzania and in Nachingwea District in particular. Specifically the study aimed at examining factors that may bring about effective use of English songs to teach the English language in primary schools. It also assessed the conformity of strategies for using English songs employed by English language teachers to the principles of teaching and learning Eng...
ABSTRACT The large-scale production of mine wastes and their secure disposal has been a problem of global importance. In this work, the mine waste from Merelani, crude overburden pyrite ore was converted into a value added chemical, sulphuric acid. XRF, XRD, AAS and modified ASTM D-2492 tests were used to investigate the mineral and chemical composition of the ore. It was revealed that the ore comprised about 60% w/w of mineral pyrite (FeS2). The evaluation of XRD pattern shows that the pyri...
ABSTRACT The focus of the study was to analyze the implication of linguistic features of kitchen party language to the contemporary society of Tanzania. Kitchen parties carry the basic linguistic features with education basis in them. The common opinion obtained during the study through interviews and observations was that kitchen party does a lot to educate an African woman to be both a good wife and a responsible mother. But again language used in kitchen party is characterized by symbolic...
ABSTRACT The study examined gender stereotype portrayal in Tanzania newspapers. The study aimed at examining the way language used in headlines and advertisements of newspapers is influenced by gender stereotype in the society. The study also examined the way pictures associated with advertisements are influenced by gender stereotype. Several headlines and advertisements from newspapers were examined. Also twenty female and twenty male respondents were interviewed to obtain their views conc...
ABSTRACT This thesis sought to examine the dynamics of community participation and accountability in Tanzania and its effect on the development management of water programs in local government authorities in Tanzania with special focus on water programs in the two districts of Kilolo and Kongwa. The study is based on the premise that community participation and accountability in development are equally important as they enhances the quality and relevance of development processes and their ou...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the competence of teachers of English in teaching effectively at public primary schools. The study‟s problem evolved around the relation that exists between competence of teachers and their effectiveness to transfer to pupils‟ measurable Linguistic components mastery. The problem was built on known pupils‟ low proficiency in English, but uknown about teachers to teach effectively. The variables that were answered to establish teachers‟effectiveness were a...
Abstract This study explores “old” school and contemporary journalist‟s perceptions on the state of journalism in Zimbabwe. It interrogates the discourses around this emotive issue with a view to teasing out the biases and absences therein and how each group tries to legitimise itself at the expense of the other. The study is informed by van Dijk‟s ideological square. In addition to the theory, the study utilised findings from numerous studies that spoke of declining standards on the ...
ABSTRACT This research was an investigation into the influence of factionalism to political economics. The study was naturally focused on factional tendencies within ZANU-PF and the consequences to Zimbabwe’s political economy from 2013 to 2017. In this case, this study automatically adopted a qualitative research methodology due to its confidential nature and pre-requisition to directly interact with society and the components under investigation. The study employed a two-dimensional sampl...
ABSTRACT This research put its focus on the effects of development induced displacement. It however narrowed down the research to the socio-economic effects that arise due to Development Induced Displacement (DID). Of note is that the document was mainly focusing on involuntary displacement. The research took a case study of Porta Farm. Porta farm is a council owned farm that is just about 20km south of the Harare CBD. Porta Farm was created to be a temporary holding for the people who were t...
Abstract This dissertation focuses mainly on the role of Civil Society Organizations in promoting democratic process in Zimbabwe as of 1980-2013. Civil Society is an umbrella organization which consists of many sub sectors as follows nongovernmental organizations, private sector organisation, labour unions, women’s groups, professional associations, religious groups, the marginalized masses, media organizations and other informal groups like cultural and economic groups. In this study the r...
ABSTRACT The 19th century Ndebele State received a number of foreign visitors. They included missionaries, explorers, hunters, traders and concession seekers. Many of them wrote as the travelled in different parts of the Ndebele State. They wrote extensively about the Ndebele State mainly from 1829 to 1893 paying particular attention to Ndebele politics, social life, modes of production, wildlife, ecology and their customs. This study analyses their various written narratives paying particula...
ABSTRACT Language is a political tool used to legitimise, delegitimise, produce and (re)produce dominance. In Zimbabwe, ZANU-PF advertisements for the July 2013 elections were an attempt to deploy language to (re)produce dominance. The advertisements were produced in the context of a power-sharing government comprising ZANU-PF and the MDCs. Adopting sign theory, the article uses legitimation analysis to explore the ways in which ZANU-PF used language to retain dominance. Research revealed tha...
ABSTRACT This research is an investigation on the professionalism and acting levels in Zimbabwe, a case study of Fair Take Media. The research looks at the acting approaches that are used in Zimbabwe and as well in developed countries, their similarities and how they have been implemented in the Zimbabwean film industry as compared to the other competitive film industries around the globe. Most importantly, this study also exhausts the ways of improving these methods in the Zimbabwean film in...
Abstract The Jews came into Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) in the nineteenth century following the Second World, the Rhodesian Jewish Board of Deputies (RJBD) was established in 1943 to organize national Jewish community in the country, and thus the creation of the Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation and Jews engaged in national pioneering activities such as transportation systems, mining and hotel corporations. He further argues that the Jewish contribution to early Rhodesia was not exclusively in te...
ABSTRACT The study investigated challenges of the language used in campaigns against elephantiasis and elephantiasis of scrotum in Tanzania, using a case study of Kisarawe and Rufiji districts in the coast region. The researcher worked on three objectives which were; to examine whether the language used by campaigners against elephantiasis and elephantiasis of scrotum is understood by local coastal communities; to find out the stereotyping and stigmatising language as used by local coastal c...