Small reservoirs represent one of the most important sources of water for livelihoods in the Mzingwane catchment, which constitutes the entirety of the Limpopo basin in Zimbabwe, because of semi-arid conditions that ...

Zimbabwe undertook a land reform in 2000, where some large scale commercial farms were sub-divided into smaller plots and allocated to new farmers. Reservoirs owned and managed by farmer consortiums were taken over by a ...

The thesis describes experimental investigations on the reductive decomposition of three sulphide minerals, namely (a) stibnite (Sb2S3), a gold and silver bearing antimony sulphide; (b) galena (PbS), a mainly silver bearing ...

Research has shown that effective management of water resources for urban water utilities worldwide still remains a challenge. Pressure management is one of the tools that is known to control water leakages in piped water ...

Following a critical review of the conceptual and laboratory studies on expansive soil behaviour, it is shown that the current understanding of unsaturated expansive soil behaviour is not consistent. In the main, the ...

Among all natural hazards, floods pose the greater threat to property, safety and economic well being of human communities the world over. This study focused on understanding the nature of flooding in areas that are ...

The boiler tubes are operated continuously at high temperature and pressure. Hence at high pressure for forces acting on the boiler tubes will be high. This research paper focuses on the analysis of one of the long term ...

This paper seeks to carry out design of a small scale electrically powered bending machine for a developing nation, case for Zimbabwe. The bending of metal is of great importance in the manufacture of products such as nut ...

A lot of emphasis has been placed on the safety of drinking water from biological contamination with little consideration on the chemical quality although there are well known health risks associated with the consumption ...

This project is based on the incorporation of fly ash and blast furnace slag from industries and mines for the stabilisation of soils for pavement design and construction. The project aimed at the determination of the ...