University of Zimbabwe Social Sciences Research: Recent submissions
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Appraising capacity building among engineering students in selected universities in Southwestern Nigeria
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2016-03)This paper examined capacity building among engineering students in selected universities in south-western Nigeria. One hundred and fifty-one final year engineering students took part in the survey. A structured questionnaire ... -
Wheat policy options in Zimbabwe: a comparative advantage approach
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)Zimbabwe is unusual among SADCC countries in producing most of its own wheat. From 1965 to 1975, rapid growth in wheat production transformed the nation from a net wheat importer to a net exporter. Although wheat consumption ... -
Institutional support services and economic policy environment for rural micro and small-scale enterprises: the case of Shamva
(Institute Of Development Studies (IDS), ( UZ.), 1988)The Micro and Small Scale-Enterprises (MSEs) have emerged as the panacea to the rising unemployment problem prevailing in Zimbabwe. One of the reasons why unemployment is rising at a higher rate than that of employment ... -
The context for the study: background to development in Zimbabwe
(Institute of Environmental Studies (IES), University of Zimbabwe., 2012-11)This Chapter sets the scene for interpreting the poverty survey findings, providing a historical account of development issues in Zimbabwe affecting the present day situation. It focuses on macro-economic policies as these ... -
Bishop Henry Mcneil Turner's countrymen: the Afro-American factor in Southern African Ethiopianism
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Reflections on two decades of research on sorghum based farming systems in Northern Nigeria and Botswana
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension; UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, 1988)The paper begins by comparing farming circumstances and sorghum production systems in northern Nigeria and Botswana. The comparison provides a background for characterising farmers’ food security strategies. This is followed ... -
The place of fieldwork in social work training
(School of Social Work (SSW) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993-02-22)The purpose of this paper is to discuss several concepts and issues that are important in understanding fieldwork in social work training. The paper will also include a case study of the Swaziland Association for Crime ... -
Analysis of the impact of the structural adjustment programme on urban poverty and social work fieldwork in Zambia
(School of Social Work (SSW), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993-02-22)This paper analyses the impact of the Structural Adjustment Programme(s) (SAPs) on urban poor and fieldwork in Zambia. Socio-economic analysts have come to terms with the reality that the decade of the 1980s in most African ... -
Urban poverty and implications for social work training and practice: the Malawi scene
(School Of Social Work (SSW), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993-02-22)This paper assesses the role that social work can play in social development and in particular in mitigating the effects of poverty in urban areas. The paper supports the thesis that while the philosophy of social work is ... -
Holding body and soul together: utilizing women's options in a changing Zimbabwean society
(Department of History, University of Zimbabwe., 1988-04)Prior to the coming of Europeans to what is now Zimbabwe African women occupied positions of importance and respect by virtue of their roles as wives and agriculturalists. Their primary responsibility of providing food for ... -
Chinese languages study methods: audition and the human early stages in Africa
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2008-11)This particular Occasional Paper is written in Chinese and published in association with the Confucius Institute at the University of Zimbabwe. This is the first time that we publish in a different language from English. ... -
Urban poverty and social security: the Botswana perspective
(School Of Social Work (SSW) (UZ), 1993-02-22)The growing concentration of people in cities is now a phenomenon associated, almost exclusively, with developing countries. According to recent United Nations projections, the developing world's rural population will reach ... -
Challenges facing student affairs practitioners in Zimbabwean universities: the call for a higher education meta-normative framework
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2016-03)In this study, we have argued that it is not possible to talk of quality assurance in student affairs management without a clear articulation of the theoretical meta- normative framework for higher education that will ... -
Famine in Zimbabwe, 1890-1960
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Ileo-cystoplasty in chronic bilharzial cystitis
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“The Social Worker of Tomorrow and Fieldwork Today: Poverty and Urban Social Work in Africa in the 1990s”
(School of Social Work (SSW) (UZ), 1993-02-22)There are many different theories concerning the causes of poverty. As Hardiman and Midgley (1982:51) point out, explanations that poverty is the result of “laziness, insobriety and irresponsibility”, which were widely ... -
Shocks, vulnerability and coping
(Institute of environmental Studies (IES), University of Zimbabwe., 2012-11)This Chapter discusses vulnerability and coping survey findings in 16 sampled districts of Zimbabwe. It is divided into four sections. The first provides a brief conceptual review of vulnerability and coping strategies. ... -
Three cases of tetanus neonatorum
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The National Livestock Policy framework
(Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) ; University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989-09)A central feature of the allocation of agricultural resources in Zimbabwe before independence was the extremely inequitable distribution of land (in both quantitative and qualitative terms), water (irrigation) resources, ... -
Introduction to the moving Zimbabwe forward wellbeing and poverty study
(Institute of Environmental Studies (IES), University of Zimbabwe, 2012-11)Nevertheless, worldwide there are around half a billion people who are persistently poor over many years, their whole lives, and inter-generationally (Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), 2010). Progress against poverty ...