University of Zimbabwe Social Sciences Research: Recent submissions

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    • The human factor, media and politics in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) 

      Mararike, Prof. Claude G. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      A historical overview of how the media in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, started and developed shows that there can be no such thing as ‘independent’ or ‘free’ media. All media serve particular view points and interests. ...

    • The human factor and industrial enterpreneurship: the succession problems in Nigeria 

      Wilier, Heidi (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      The thesis that African companies die with their founders has been a point of most African entrepreneurial studies (Kilby, 1988: 224; Kennedy, 198: 174f; Iliffe, 1983: 74f; Forrest, 1994: 237f). It has been controversially ...

    • Corporate social responsibility in Zimbabwean business organizations 

      Maphosa, France (Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1998)
      Formal organizations are such a predominant feature of contemporary societies, both developed and underdeveloped, that it is sometimes difficult to conceive of any good thing happening to humanity except through the ...

    • Chawarura community use of Mavuradonha wilderness: a preliminary assessment of results from a survey of herdsmen 

      Matzke, Gordon (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993-07-30)
      The research reported in this paper was stimulated by the author's experience as a participant in an exercise aimed at assessing community reaction to a proposal to place a cattle exclusion fence along the boundary of the ...

    • Regional co-operation: lessons from African history 

      Mangwende, Witness P.M. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      In discussing the historical significance of regional co-operation in Africa, it is imperative to explain problems which have hindered co-operation, noting in particular, the effects of colonialism on the quality of the ...

    • An anatomy of curriculum innovation failure: the case of political economy in Zimbabwean secondary school sector 

      Madondo, Manasa M. (Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2015-11)
      The magnitude of educational reforms and change in the first decade of independence in Zimbabwe is legendary and more or less unparalleled in the history of educational provision in post-colonial Africa. By the late 1980s, ...

    • Were it not for the land revolution: cases of empowerment in Marondera District 

      Manyeruke, Charity; Murwira, Ashton (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 2014)
      This chapter analyses the reality of empowerment of the people after the implementation of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000. Marondera District is used as a case study to test the extent to which ...

    • The human factor perspective and development education 

      Ofori-Amoah, Benjamin (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      The relatively slow pace of the economic development process in Africa, compared to other developing regions of the world has generated immense interest in diagnosing causes from different perspectives and ideological ...

    • The importance of play in early childhood development: implications on design and technology education in Zimbabwe 

      Kwaira, Peter (Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2015-11)
      In the study leading to this paper, the task was to determine the possibility of the Department of Technical Education at the University of Zimbabwe in-servicing Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers in Design and ...

    • The human factor and conflict in post-Cold War Africa 

      Kambudzi, Admore M. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      The underlying causes of armed conflict in post-Cold War Africa are essentially those of Human Factor (HF) decay Since independence in the 1960s, and throughout the Cold War degraded political conditions such as dictatorship, ...

    • Improving rural livilihoods in semi-arid regions through management of micro-catchments 

      Frost, P.G.H.; Mandondo, A. (Institute of Environmental Studies (IES), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1999)
      This paper reviews some of the issues that need to he considered in external initiatives aimed at improving rural livelihoods and alleviating poverty in semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe through promoting enhanced community-based ...

    • The human factor and effective management of capital and technology 

      Harder, Harold (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      It is commonly supposed in contemporary analysis that economic growth is the main ingredient necessary for the development of a region and that the primary engines of economic growth are investment in capital and technology ...

    • Implications of economic structural adjustment programme on population and environment: the case of Shamva District 

      Wekwete, Naomi N. (Institute of Development Studies (IDS), (UZ), 1998)
      The Government in 1990 introduced the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) in order to improve the lives of the people through a framework of economic management and sustainable development. In the context of ...

    • State-civil society inter-action in policy making: a manual 

      Sachikonye, Lloyd M. (Unpublished., 2000-12)
      'Civil society' has become one of the most fashionable terms our times. There are many civil soviet} organisations (CSOs) which ha\e sprung up in Southern Africa in the past two decades. No discussion about politics, ...

    • Language, culture and human factor development 

      Gethaiga, Wacira (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      On 22 August 1996, Zimbabwe celebrated the launching of the first monolingual Shona dictionary, Duramazwi ReChiShona. The dictionary was conceived, researched, compiled and published by indigenous speakers of Shona. We ...

    • Human factor decay and underdevelopment in Africa 

      Uwakwe, E.E. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      Underdevelopment in most countries of Africa is strongly supported by empirical evidence. Industrial production in Africa for instance, fails to operate at maximum capacity. Agriculture, the economic mainstay of most African ...

    • Human factor development: agenda for the future 

      Chivaura, Vimbai Gukwe (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications, 1998)
      much. The understanding that the HF approach to development must improve human welfare means that people need, among other things, food, clean water, adequate clothing, decent housing, access to efficient health care and ...

    • The human factor: tourism and development 

      Adu-Febiri, Francis (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1998)
      Given the substantial tourism resources of the continent and the rapid growth of tourism globally, African countries can be optimistic about the socio-economic transformative power of tourism as an industry. Africa has ...

    • The human factor and economic development in Africa 

      Anyanwu, Sarah O. (University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1998)
      The imporuuice of adequate investment in the Human Factor (HF) for the inyriad tasks of development has been emphasized in the literature by Schultz (1959), Becker (1962), Harbison (1973), Denison (1962), Kendrick (1961) ...

    • Designing a land information system for rural land use planning in Zimbabwe: a situational analysis and feasibility study report 

      Mugabe, Phanuel; Magaya, Wilson (Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS); University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2003)
      The objective of this project was to investigate the feasibility of constructing a national Land/Geographic Information System (LIS/GIS) for the purposes of rural land use planning that would be easily accessed by different ...