ABSTRACT This study is aimed at unveiling the challenges that have been faced by Zimbabwe in the 21st century. This study mainly focuses on the challenges that have had a negative impact to peace and in some instances reconciliation. The research branched out the challenges into economic, social and political categories so as to create a proper path of how they affect peace. In other sections of this research the dimensions of the categories shape shift into two distinct parallels which are e...
ABSTRACT Motivation is crucial for organizations to function; without motivation employees will not put up their best and the organisations performance would be less efficient. The situation is even more serious in developing countries where working conditions are unattractive. It is in view of this that this study was conducted to assess the role of motivation on employee performance in parastatals: a case study of the rural electrification agency. The case-study approach was adopted for the...
ABSTRACT The adoption of the Economic Structural Adjustments Programs in Zimbabwe from 1991 to 1995 has provoked a debate both internally and internationally as to what extent have they hindered or promoted the democratization process in Zimbabwe. Although the programs ended in the year 1995, their effects continue be felt in all the sectors of life up to date. The study examined how the programs were adopted and their impact on the democratization process and gave recommendations on recovery...
ABSTRACT The year 2000 marked the rise of a formidable opposition political party MDC to challenge ZANU PF monopoly in the Harare city council as a result subsequent years becomes theatre for a humiliating electoral defeat of ZANU PF. Harare City Council was turned into a political battle field as ZANU PF intensified partisan politics in the Administration of the local authorities to survive the democratic storm using all means at their disposable which has led to the detriment of the City Co...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at assessing the impact of training and development of staff efficiency and service delivery in urban municipalities with specific reference towards CM from 2013 to 2016. The study utilised a mixed method approach encompassing both qualitative and quantitative data analysis with a case study design. The sample study was selected from the employees within Chitungwiza using stratified random sampling as well as judgemental sampling. The research study utilised both...
Abstract The environment within which social dialogue operates is shaped by a number of factors, most of which are economic, social, political, environmental and legal. The economic, social and political developments in Zimbabwe from 2008, and 2014 posed various challenges to the economy of the country. In an attempt to find solutions to the challenges affecting the country, policy makers pursued various avenues, including social dialogue. Against this background, it was of interest to ascert...
ABSTRACT The study to be undertaken aims at discovering the enforcement of the Zimbabwean Administrative law in resolving disputes that emerge within the public sector departments to ensure stable provisioning of public services using the Midlands Provincial office as the case study. The absence of development within the public sector departments is as a result of emerging and pending unresolved disputes. It is against this background that the study will focus on whether the Zimbabwean Admini...
ABSTRACT The endeavour of this study is to probe the impact of Public Private Partnership (PPP) on urban development in Zimbabwe’s Local Authorities using the recent partnership between the Victoria Falls Municipality (VFM) and the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) on housing development. This study therefore seeks to unravel the effects of Public Private Partnership, whether the land allocation process was line with the Local Government policy, was fairness observed and were the general po...
ABSTRACT Youths in Zimbabwe constitute the majority of the population but are either sidelined or alienated from electoral processes, weakening the very ground-works of citizenship and democracy. Young people in Zimbabwe are facing different challenges ranging from unemployment, poverty, drug abuse, crime, prostitution, lack of funding for tertiary education, and HIV/AIDS. These problems have been exacerbated by an undemocratic and unyielding ZANU PF government which has been in power since 1...
ABSTRACT The key calling of any parastatal in Zimbabwe is to pursue public interests, parastatals are tasked with the duty to provide services that benefit the public in the long-term. In the 21st century Zimbabwean parastatals have been the country ‘s bane, draining the fiscus while failing to perform the functions for which there were set out to do.in 2013 the Auditor General Mildred Chiri outlined that parastatals operate in red, continuously bleeding the fiscus and in most instances fai...
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ABSTRACT This research seeks to explore the effects of formal diamond mining on the community of Chiadzwa. The research seeks to assess the challenges and problems that the community of Chiadzwa faced from 2009-2015 which emanated from the formalized diamond mining in Chiadzwa.2009 marked a turnaround in the diamond mining spectrum ,diamond mining in Chiadzwa shifted from illegal to legal or formalized diamond were companies such as Mbada, Anjin acquired mining claims from the Ministry of Min...
ABSTRACT The urban councils of Zimbabwe’s local authorities have witnessed poor corporate governance for decades, as cases of lack of adherence to good corporate governance have been increasing especially after the Inclusive Government. Urban Councils are Local Government Authorities which draws their mandate from the Urban Councils Act 29: 15. The major mandate of urban councils is to champion government of Zimbabwe’s development agenda at local level. The study discovered that promotion...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted in order to assess the effectiveness of revenue collection strategies employed by local authority using Beitbridge Town Council (B.T.C) as a case study. The main objective of the research was to analyze the revenue collection strategies employed by council and evaluate or to judge to what extent did those strategies managed to improve revenue collection at B.T.C. the research revealed that B.T.C used debt collection method, the use of Information Communication...
ABSTRACT The paper examines the role of food security policies that have been inaugurated or put in place to ensure food security and nutrition in Zimbabwe since 2000 till date. Such an idea has been necessitated culminating from Zimbabwe experiencing severe food shortage of crop and meet production due to continued early termination of rains (droughts), effects of the fast track land reform, banning of humanitarian aid societies, reduced socio-economic development, increased mortality and mo...