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Political movements and personalities have been given nicknames in Zimbabwe. Through an analysis of nicknames used on social and print media as well as in popular music, this paper argues that nicknames describe physical appearances,... more
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      OnomasticsPoliticsResistance (Social)Humour Studies
Pre-print draft of an article to be published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing In the work of Zimbabwean novelist Yvonne Vera, land is shown to be a complex and contested resource to which the typically abject fates of her female... more
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      World LiteraturesPostcolonial StudiesCultural LandscapesPostcolonial Literature
Mining plays a key role in Zimbabwe’s economy, contributing 5% and 23% to the country’s gross domestic (GDP) and total exports, respectively. It also generates foreign currency and supplies raw materials to some industries. As a ‘robber’... more
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      Mining EngineeringSocial SciencesSustainable DevelopmentSustainable Human Development
Documentation of the presence and purpose of cloth as metaphor, structure and object in Yvonne Vera's fiction illuminates the innovations present in the author's published fiction. Vera's confrontation of the often silenced experiences of... more
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      TextilesZimbabweZimbabwean and African LiteratureYvonne Vera
The tense political environment of the late 1990s, in which the Zimbabwean government was confronted with a more vocal civil society and a new political party, set the stage for the introduction of a new private newspaper The Daily News.... more
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      African StudiesMedia StudiesZimbabweLand Issue
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      African HistorySouthern AfricaZimbabwe
The historiography concerning the making of Zimbabwe as an independent nation has been written from various perspectives and by using different sources, both primary and secondary ones. The study constitutes a re-evaluation of the... more
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      Social PsychologySocial SciencesZimbabweGreat Zimbabwe
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      African HistorySouthern AfricaZimbabwe
Research on comprehensive sanctions underlines that targeted leaders are able to create a rally- round-the-flag effect through the distribution of economic resources and strong ideological sentiment. Although the policy shift to... more
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      SecuritizationZimbabweInternational SanctionsFrame Analysis
This article looks at the shifts and continuities in labor relations in Zimbabwe from c. 1900–2000. It does so by looking at three cross sections (1904, 1951, and 2002) to examine the changes that have taken place. By exploring the... more
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      Labour historyZimbabwe
This article discusses how the deep-rooted Shona hegemony across all fields of cultural practice in Zimbabwe has compelled some Ndebele arts performers to use Shona language in order to appeal culturally to a Shona audience. Ndebele... more
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      Cultural StudiesPerforming ArtsLanguages and LinguisticsSouthern Africa
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      ZimbabweElections in AfricaElections and Election Observation
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      African PoliticsAnthropology of the StateZimbabwe
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      Cultural HistoryPolitical ScienceZimbabwe
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      DiscoursePolitical communicationPolitical AdvertisingZimbabwe
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      Cultural LandscapesAbjectionPostcolonial LiteratureDoris Lessing
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      ViolenceMedia HistoryGenocide StudiesZimbabwe
This paper seeks to interrogate the framing of collective memory among Zimbabweans born after 1980 against the background of patriotic history and ZANU PF’s hegemonic control of the state-owned media. In particular it looks at the... more
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      Zimbabwe'Born frees'ZANU PFPatriotic History
This article attributes the crisis in Zimbabwe and the privation of the Zimbabwean people to two malignant factors; the political authoritarianism of the Mugabe regime and the neoliberalism evident in the structural adjustment programme... more
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      ZimbabweLabour MovementsLabor Organizing and Worker's Rights
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      LiteratureNationalismZimbabwe
This paper will seek to ask the tough questions as to why Zimbabwe -- a prosperous nation at the time of transition to majority rule -- collapsed economically as a besieged ZANU-PF reacted against outside public opinion and began undoing... more
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      ApartheidUnited KingdomZimbabweSouth Africa
This study focuses on hegemonic contests in Zimbabwe between Authoritarian Nationalism and Democratic nationalism as competing national visions. It focuses on understanding the tri-factor of: the crisis in Zimbabwe post-2000 in its proper... more
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      PoliticsDemocracyHegemonyCivil Society
This volume is the second edition (expanded and revised) of BiAS 4. The articles in this volume are focused on shedding more light on the relationship between the Bible and Christian practices in African communities, African Churches... more
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      TheologyNew TestamentMissiologyPostcolonial Studies
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      Medical MicrobiologyBiologyMalariaMedicine
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      Primary Health CareTropical medicine (Health Sciences)ZimbabweHumans
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      Public HealthZoonosesZimbabweHumans
This response document will briefly address concerns about the ethical, legal and methodological flaws with past research informing aspects of present PEPFAR program areas; concerns about adverse consequences of PEPFAR program areas; and... more
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      EthicsBioethicsForeign Policy AnalysisAfrica
Drawing on a feminist institutional perspective combined with nego-feminism, this article explores the ways in which women in a mining community in Zimbabwe experience and access power within a patri-archal social structure. Women vary in... more
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      ZimbabweDoing GenderPatriarchal bargainsPower over
It is certainly true that examinations play a major role both in assessment of learning and selection of candidates for subsequent stages of education and/or for employment, (Bray 1998) hence most countries consider assessment and... more
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      ZimbabweExamsAssessment and EvaluationAcademic
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      Animal BehaviorArtiodactylaZimbabweSouth Africa
The study sought to establish factors that contribute towards food security among elderly headed households and then seek ways of enhancing them. The study was conducted in Mudzi District in Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. Data was... more
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      Dietary DiversitySocial SupportFood SecurityZimbabwe
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      Program EvaluationOperations ResearchAdolescentZimbabwe
Sick leave is time spent away from work due to illness or injury. A preliminary review of sick leave records for 2012 for the 6 clinics in Nkulumane showed 3 clinics experienced higher sick leave incidents than the other 3 clinics. The... more
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      ManagementZimbabweBulawayoPrevalence
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      BioinformaticsDemographyLife SciencesZimbabwe
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare To the Editor: The health system in Zimbabwe has collapsed, mainly owing to underfunding and the migration of skilled personnel. [1]... more
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      Non-communicable diseasesCancerZimbabwe
The design of API patterns has grown exponentially over the past few years as compared to the old age meaning that the development of APIs has become of essence than back in the days. This is a research project that will look in the field... more
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      MathematicsComputer ScienceAlgorithmsSoftware Engineering
A beverage manufacturing company reported 59.3% increase in occupational injuries between 2006 and 2007. Factors associated with occupational injuries at this company in Harare were characterized, described the injuries, identified the... more
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      ZimbabweHumansFemaleMale
BantwanakabilesiolarakdabilinenesrarengizVadoma kabilesi, Zimbabwe'nin kuzeyindeki Kanyemba bölgesinde yaşayan bir halktır. Bölge, Mwazamutunda nehri havzasında bulunuyor. Dema dilini konuşuyorlar ve bu dil bölgede ağırlıklı olarak... more
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      Health SciencesZimbabweTribes
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      Sexual BehaviourMedical MicrobiologyAdolescentZimbabwe
This is an article by journalist David Oliveira, in the South African industry periodical "Mining Weekly" vol 22, no. 15 ( 22 April 2016), pp. 10-11. It is mostly based on Oliveira's attendance at a seminay I gave at the Department of... more
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      Social and Cultural AnthropologySouth Africa (History)MiningSouth African history
The design of API patterns has grown exponentially over the past few years as compared to the old age meaning that the development of APIs has become of essence than back in the days. This is a research project that will look in the field... more
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      MathematicsComputer ScienceAlgorithmsSoftware Engineering
‘African’ nationalism, and its complex interpenetrative relationship with dynamics of ethnicity, race, and history, has played a crucial role in the sociocultural and politico-economic climates of post-liberation South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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      Postcolonial StudiesNationalismZimbabweSouth Africa
In this project, we analyzed whether mobile phone-based surveys are a feasible and cost-effective approach for gathering statistically representative information in four low-income countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and... more
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      Social SciencesAfghanistanMozambiqueEthiopia
A short discussion on the pseudo facts left behind after fire destroys beehive huts.
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      Historical ArchaeologySouthern AfricaZimbabweNdebele History
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      Climate ChangeZimbabweSeasonality of Rainfall
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      Natural ProductsMedicinal PlantsBiological SciencesZimbabwe
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      PaleoclimatologyDendroecologyDendrochronologyZimbabwe
The Zimbabwean sculpture movement began in the 1960s and has been marketed as a continuation of “traditional” carving as practiced by the Shona people, the dominant ethnic group in Zimbabwe. European gallery owners who have encouraged... more
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      AnthropologyCultural HeritageSocial and Cultural AnthropologyNational Identity
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      ReligionHistoryAfrican StudiesAmerican Studies
Spending time in a queue for services is not desirable because it causes unpredictability and makes it difficult for travellers to plan their logistics. The study documented the experiences of travellers who crossed the Beitbridge Border... more
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      International BusinessZimbabweSouth AfricaBorder Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and Security