Abstract This research examined the rationale or the fundamental reasons behind the recent Zimbabwe’s foreign policy re-alignment in the context of re-engaging the West. Several aspects were looked at by the researcher so as to establish the reasons why Zimbabwe should engage. The main reason being the current economic situation in Zimbabwe where the Finance Ministry is at times even struggling to pay the civil servants, there is high rate of unemployment and the university graduates are no...
ABSTRACT Factionalism in ZANU PF has achieved a few difficulties to political advancement in Zimbabwe, obviously MDC has had its own particular decent amount of factionalism however the effects were never had an inclination than the present factionalism in ZANU PF. The wild factionalism in ZANU PF swelled since the December 2014 gathering where a few ZANU PF individuals confronted the ZANU-PF hatchet counting the then VP Joyce Mujuru ,from that point forward poor Zimbabweans still keep on fee...
ABSTRACT Employee motivation is an essential tool in promoting organizational effectiveness. Basically, motivational strategies are factors that rejuvenate the degree of employees‟ commitment. At the same time organizational effectiveness denotes the ability of an organization to fulfill its required obligations. ZETDC has been perceived by its clients as rude, incompetent and negligent thus leading to corporate damage. The attitudes and behaviors of employees at ZETDC have been expressed t...
Abstract This study was aimed at finding out whether land resettlement indeed achieved poverty eradication, using the case of Central Estate Resettlement in Chirumhanzu, to ascertain whether or not resettled farmers in Central Estate in Chirumhanzu have managed to eradicate poverty through accessing land and produce cash crops. A couple of literature on sustainable livelihoods, including relevant model, was reviewed focusing on aspects such as community assets, adaptive strategies and technol...
Abstract Following the 1980 Berg Report, and the injection of “political conditionalities” by the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI), in particular the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in their financial relationships with the developing countries, the intellectual issue of how best to attract and stimulate foreign direct investments (FDI) became subsumed within the great debate ignited by the famous Report. As the debate raged on, there was the lack of specific foc...
ABSTRACT Partisan politics has become an obstacle to countries in Africa and the rest of the world. Zimbabwe, like other African countries, has implemented reforms to decentralize political authority to local government and introduce multiparty elections. This however creates opportunities for partisanship struggles to emerge in local authorities and influence service delivery. In this document it was found that partisan politics undermines service delivery in Kadoma in several ways. Many loc...
ABSTRACT Developing effective ways in revenue collection has been an important matter in tax and revenue collection. The study explored the strategies and the advent of new instruments that had been put in place by ZIMRA to help revenue collection to be effective. This was to significantly enhance revenue collection in all Departments. Implementation of innovative revenue collection strategies was supposed to improve its organization structures, training, manpower planning, developing teamwor...
Abstract The paper examines the influence of the security sector in governance, a case study of Zimbabwe National Army from 1980 till 2015. Such a topic has been necessitated culminating from Zimbabwe experiencing the deployment of military personnel to strategic positions in various state institutions responsible for governance hence affecting economic and political governance positively and negatively. The research aims to find out why the ZNA fail to divorce itself from the ruling party ZA...
Abstract The global village has seen a significant margin of persons who are not living in their countries of origin but somewhere beyond their national borders as refuges. Therefore this study sought to analyze the effectiveness of Restoration of Family Links (RFL) to African refugees and the case study was Tongogara refugee camp in Zimbabwe. The research revealed that restoration of family links improves displaced persons in issues of health, performance and behavior. In the same vein, rela...
Abstract World over, municipalities or local authorities have been blamed for poor service delivery by both central government and local residents. Central government which has devolved power to local government accuses municipalities for poor service delivery, just as residents (tax payers) also point fingers at municipalities for the same reasons. It is with this project which aims to unveil some these constraints that affect service delivery, from the service providers angle of view. In ad...
ABSTRACT Public service delivery is of paramount importance to citizens around the globe. Service delivery is therefore meant to ensure good living conditions to the people thus there is need for good public service delivery. It can be noted that there are many factors that have been alluded to as causes of poor service delivery by local authorities and these factors are financial constraints, economic instability, political interference into the local authority issues and management thereby ...
ABSTRACT The study critically examines the linkage between the Nigerian State and oil as a commodity produced and marketed within capitalist relations. It analyzes its impact on the crisis of development in Nigeria, characterized by pervasive economic crisis, political instability and social tension. And deals with how this critical linkage can be subjected to a transformation which will bring about national control, and the use of oil for the benefit of most Nigeria. We commence from a theor...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the challenges of proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) to peace-building in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The study provides a critical analysis of the nature of warfare in Africa with the use of small arms and light weapons and child soldiers. It is a discourse of post-conflict peace-building as it assesses the various measures adopted in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It argues that continual availability of SALW in these countries poses a great threat...
ABSTRACT This exploratory study looks at statelessness in Namibia, focusing on citizenship as a legal status. The study uses the theory of politics of citizenship to assess how the issue of statelessness fits into citizenship discourse in Namibian. It defines the problems presented by statelessness and highlights the urgency of addressing it. The study draws upon qualitative data like documentary analyses, books, journals and semi-structured interviews. Despite provisions on protection agains...
ABSTRACT The conduct of periodic free and fair elections is gradually becoming the norm rather than the exception in most developing parts of the world including Africa and Ghana. Ghana’s successful conduct of seven multiparty democratic elections resulting in three alternations of power has surpassed the two-turn over test espoused by Huntington. This has also recognised the country as a democratic torchbearer on the continent. In all these elections, the role of the media has been very p...