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A Comparative Study of Comrade's courts under Socialist Legal Systems and Zimbabwe's Village Courts
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A Comparison Of Governance Of Some Community Based Woodland And Wetland Projects With Grazing Schemes In Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe
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Alteration of the Constitution
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1997)Constitutional Bills must be published in the Government Gazette not less than thirty days prior to being introduced into Parliament. This is a mandatory requirement and unless and until it has been complied with, a ... -
Capital Punishment, the Death Row Phenomenon and the Supreme Court of Nigeria: Onuoha Kalu vs. The State [1998] 12 S.C.N.J. 1
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1999)The issue of constitutionality1 2 of capital punishment and some aspects of the punishment came before the Supreme Court of Nigeria in Onuoha Kalii v The State? This was the first time that the issue was properly raised ... -
Conquest, Colonial Education and Cultural Uprootedness in Africa — the Role of Education for Hunhu/Ubuntu in de-rooting the African in Zimbabwe
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2008-11)There is disagreement between colonial and post-colonial Africanist historiography over the impact ofcolonial education on the indigenes of Africa. Theformer maintain that colonial education benefited the Africans tremendously ... -
Constitutional reform in Zimbabwe: history and way forward
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2009)Zimbabwe is in the middle of a decade old but climaxing unprecedented and multi-faceted economic and political crisis. The crisis is on the one hand, political, that is the autocratic rule and crisis of legitimacy of the ... -
Customary Law Courts Restructured Once Again: Chiefs and Headmen Regain Their Judicial Functions
(Faculty of Law, University of Rhodesia ( now University of Zimbabwe.) (UZ), 1989)After the attainment of independence on 18 April, 1980 the colonial judicial administration of Headmen, Chiefs and Native Commissioners which had been primarily responsible for the administration of customary law during ... -
Decentralisation Policy in Zimbabwe: Impact on Local Government Performance
(Institute of Development Studies (Zimbabwe) (ZIDS), 1993-11)Decentralisation is the most common concept used in Zimbabwe to describe the relations between the centre and the local communities. Whether this is the most appropriate mode to capture these intricate relations is not the ... -
Democratisation of Governance in Tertiary Institutions: A Critical Analysis of Perceived Involvement of the Student Union in the Administration of Institutions of Higher Learning in Nigeria
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe., 1998-03)The study investigated the perception of academic and non-academic staff, heads of tertiary institutions, students, student union executives, and parents about the participation of student unions in the administration of ... -
Educational Administration At Local Level In Zimbabwe: Conflicts, Achievements And Challenges.
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE), University of Zimbabwe., 2003-11)The practice of having government sharing powers and responsibilities with local school communities in the provision and administration of education is world-wide. Generally this is termed decentralisation. Decentralisation ... -
Externally Sourced Finance and its Impact on the Doctrine of Sovereignty and Equality of State
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993)The Third World financial and economic crisis sprang from a number of factors. This paper will not seek to exhaustively examine the genesis of the crisis bedeviling the majority of the developing countries. Instead the ... -
Interest Groups in South African Politics.
(UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia), 1969-01)Any survey of political behavior in South Africa, ought to begin with a consideration of the role of pressure groups or interest groups. The term “interest group" is to be preferred to "pressure group" because the latter ... -
Introducing Systems Dynamics in National Planning
(Institute of Development Studies (Zimbabwe) (ZIDS), 1989-01)The purpose of this paper is to provide elementary knowledge of Systems Dynamics and to provide a brief indication of its advantages and shortcomings, as an approach to development in planning. The background of Zimbabwe, ... -
Judges and Lawyers in Africa Today: Their Powers, Competence and Social Role
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe ( UZ.), 1988)Judges and legal practitioners, both public and private, in independent African countries have clamored and continue to clamor, not only for societal recognition and acceptance of the hallowed ideal of “independence of the ... -
Judges in the Storm: the Judicial Review Debate
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Last Days of White Rhodesia
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1983)The title of this essay review is that of Dennis Hills’s book on events in this country from mid-1978 to mid-1980.1 This is his second book on the subject within three years,2 and, although enjoyable, is symptomatic of the ... -
Law and Legal Education in the Period of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
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Law and Social Transformation: the Chilean Experiment
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1988)The victory of the Unidad Popular Party (UP) led by Salvador Allende in the Chilean general election of September 4, 1970 which led to the unfolding of political, economic and social processes never experienced anywhere ... -
Modern Thinking on Theories of Punishment
(Department of Law, University of Rhodesia ( now University of Zimbabwe.) (UZ), 1972-04)The author is a third-year law student at the University of Rhodesia, and submitted this essay in the normal course of his studies. Taking the classical theories of punishment in turn, he concludes that in the light of ... -
Planning Laws For Urban And Regional Planning In Zimbabwe: A Review
(Rural and Urban Planning (RUP), University of Zimbabwe., 1989-09)There exists a wide variety of laws (statutes) which underpin the activities of regional and urban planning. These forms of planning are part of public planning which is primarily carried out by the state and its agencies ...