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Salaries and the teaching profession in Zimbabwe: importance, desire and reality
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989-07)This article is based on a major research concerned with the recruitment and training of non-graduate secondary student teachers in 1985. Since that study, the author collected more information on the 'gjiobal perspectives’ ... -
SAPES Trust Research: Peace and Security in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa
(Institute of Development Studies Zimbabwe (ZIDS)., 1992)Currently, there are two schools of thought about the region in the post-apartheid era. The first one is an old thesis. It suggests that although SA would no longer pose a military threat as it did before De Klerk came to ... -
Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface water evaporation over Lake Mutirikwi, Zimbabwe
(2012-07-31)Evaporation from large water bodies is an important hydrological parameter as it dominates water balance in arid and semi-arid climates. Small changes in actual evaporation can lead to large changes in surface water ... -
Savings Groups, Community Resilience Building and Social Protection in Hatcliffe, Harare
(University of Zimbabwe, 2019)The prevailing economic environment in Zimbabwe has given rise to intricate vagaries of an economic nature that have worsened the plight of poor households. It creates a need for appropriate social protection mechanisms ... -
Saying 'No' Without Saying 'No': Indirectness and Politeness in Shona Refusals
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2002)Indirect communication patterns are often a means to save the interlocutor’s face: avoiding open refusals is a clear example of that. The Shona of Zimbabwe, like other African peoples, sometimes avoid direct responses ... -
School Counsellors’ Perceptions Of Headmasters’ Attitudes Towards Guidance And Counselling In Zimbabwe Secondary Schools
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 2005-03)The study sought to find out school counsellors’ perceptions of headmasters’ attitudes towards the guidance and counselling programme in Zimbabwe Secondary schools. Two hundred and six (N=206) school counsellors participated ... -
School dropouts in Zimbabwe between 1980 and 2004: Implications for education and training policy twenty-five years after independence.
(Zimbabwe Bulletin of Teacher Education, 2007-09-01)This article analyses the problem of school dropouts in Zimbabwe during the period 1980 to 2004 with the aim of suggesting how the problem can be eliminated. The discussion is important in view of the fact that the country ... -
Schooling And The Drought In Zimbabwe: The Views And Reactions Of Primary School Senior Teachers
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 1993-07)This report presents the findings of a questionnaire survey carried out among a group of primary school senior teachers with at least 10 years teaching experience who attended an in-service course at Masvingo Teachers’ ... -
Science Assisted Medicine And The Future Of General Practice And Public Health
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe (formerly University College of Rhodesia), 1970-02)Our profession has been slow to recognize disease in society as a whole in contrast to its skill in caring for individual sickness. The cost of medical I and surgical treatment has risen from year to year and there is an ... -
Science Teachers' Cultural Beliefs And Conceptions Of the Nature of Science And Instruction
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE), University of Zimbabwe, 1997-09)This paper summarizes findings of a study which explored the relationship between science teachers’ orientation to traditional culture and their conceptions of the nature of science, science-technology related societal ... -
Screening for the effects of selected Zimbabwean plant extracts on enzymes and processes involved in pain and inflammation.
(2016-04)Inflammation is a complex process that is mediated by signalling radicals and prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are produced by conversion of arachidonic acid by cyclooxygenase (COX) isoenzymes. Selective inhibition of ... -
Screening of some Traditional Medicinal Plants from Zimbabwe for Biological and Anti-microbial Activity
(2012-09-04)In Zimbabwe medicinal plants play a critical role in the healthcare delivery system. Ethnobotanical surveys of five districts from the Matebeleland and Manicaland regions of Zimbabwe were done and most commonly used and ... -
SCREENING OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM ZIMBABWE FOR PHYTOCHEMISTRY, ANTIOXIDANT, ANTIMICROBIAL, ANTIVIRAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
(2013-08-02)Fourteen indigenous medicinal plants used by traditional medical practitioners in treating sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections were selected after an ethno-botanical pilot survey ... -
A Search for Constructs
(MaCoTra Publications, 2011)This article is a derivative of my doctoral thesis at the University of South Africa’s (UNISA) School of Business Leadership (SBL) from 2001 to 2003. The electronic version of the thesis is available on the Unisa Institutional ... -
The Search for Molecular Markers, Parental Characterisation and inheritance Studies of Witchweed [Striga Asiatica (L.) Kuntze] Resistance in Sorghum [Sorghum Bicolor (L.) Moench].
(2012-08-30)Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is ranked the third most important cereal crop in Zimbabwe, after maize and wheat. The major biotic constraint to sorghum production by resource poor farmers (RPFs) is attack by the ... -
Seasonal climate prediction and adaptation using indigenous knowledge systems in agriculture systems in Southern Africa: A review
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2015-04-15)Erratic rainfall and increasing temperature is rapidly emerging as one of the most serious global problems affecting many sectors in the world. It is considered to be one of the most serious threats to sustainable development ... -
The secondary school and the needs of industry
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Secondary School Pupils’ And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Context-Led Teaching And Learning Of Science
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE), University of Zimbabwe, 2000-03)The study looked at some Zimbabwean students and teachers’ perceptions about the use of context based teaching / leaming. Questionnaires, teacher reflections and interviews were used to collect data from ten teachers and ...