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Flame or Lily? Revisited: A Response and Elaboration of Rhodesian Racial Attitudes
(UZ Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia ), 1973-12)My book Flame or Lily?' was written out of my enthusiasm for the potential insight provided by the white press into white Rhodesian culture, although I was aware that such data do not provide ‘perspectives on the society ... -
4-Aminoquinoline Prophylaxis of Malaria amongst Semi-Immune African School Children
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1957-12)Drugs used for the prophylaxis of malaria are generally recommended in doses sufficient to suppress the disease in persons without immunity, these amounts being considerably in excess of those required for the protection ... -
Freedoms of Association and of Assembly: Some International and Comparative Perspectives
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1999)The freedoms of assembly and of association, while closely linked and generally serving similar ends in a democracy, are nevertheless different and distinct. However, they are so sufficiently connected1 that it is instructive ... -
Nutritive Value of Foods of Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1989)Many countries, both developed and developing, have tables of the nutrient composition of their food. The data are used by research nutritionists to assess the nutritional value of a nation’s food supply. Home economics ... -
The Place of the Humanities in Medical Education
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1957-11)The word science is derived from the Latin scientia, which means knowledge. There are many compartments of science such as moral, political and natural, but the word “science” in its modern sense means an organised body ... -
The Medical Treatment of Systemic Hypertension
(UZ Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia ), 1958-05)The diastolic blood pressure is the product of the cardiac output and the peripheral arteriolar tone. A resting level in excess of 100 mm. Hg. means that systemic hypertension is present. As such it contrasts with systolic ... -
Hurler’s Syndrome: a Clinical Report on Two Cases
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1958-05)Dwarfism, hideous features, characteristic deformities of the skeleton and other abnormalities involving many systems typify this bizarre and rare condition. It is said to have been first recognized by John Thomson, of ... -
The History of Race Relations in South Africa
(UZ Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia ), 1973-12)Historians do not solve social problems. Indeed it is even possible that they may have a sordid professional interest in keeping them unsolved. They prefer the society which in the Chinese proverb ‘has been through interesting ... -
Anglicans and Roman Catholics before and after Independence
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications. (Department of Soil Sciences), 1988)Writing Church history has its own peculiar problems. No church exists simply in terms of its institutions because a church is not its institutions but the body of believers which pay allegiance to it. Belief in itself is ... -
South Africa’s Foreign Policy and the World
(UZ Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia ), 1973-12)South Africa’s relations with the rest of the world have been a subject of more intense debate at the United Nations and the O.A.U. than any other international problem; but the continuing debate is also about the Republic’s ... -
A. B. S. Chigwedere’s Pre-colonial Histories of Zimbabwe and Africa
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1988)QUARTER OF a century ago, in 1962, the study of the pre-colonial history of Africa as a serious academic discipline was beginning to get under way. This was a period of high hopes. Archives virtually untapped by historians ... -
Traditional Systems of Soil Classification in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1983)Since independence a large number of researchers have scrambled into the communal lands of Zimbabwe to investigate agricultural production in relation to the physical environment as well as the socio-economic structures ... -
Bone and Joint Tuberculosis in Kenya
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1958-08)Throughout Kenya the treatment of tuberculosis in African patients is a problem of considerable magnitude. The writer supposes that over the next ten years this will be the problem that will exercise medical men throughout ... -
Research on School Effectiveness on Pupils’ Achievement in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Malawi: Some Methodological Issues.
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2001-07)Most previous research on the comparative effectiveness of schools in developing and developed countries, particularly the effect of school inputs and resources on academic achievement, have concluded that the effect of ... -
The Roads to Nowhere: Fighting Corruption in Zimbabwe
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1999)Everybody who does not matter knows that something needs to be done.* 1 There was a time in Zimbabwe when the fundamental problem of addressing the issue of corruption and good governance lay in the lack of understanding ... -
The African and Plastic Surgery
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1958-08)Experience with and treatment of Africans in need of reconstructive surgery, including a number of cases at the Salisbury African hospital in the last two and a half years, indicates the need for Africans generally to be ... -
Beyond Phenomenology: Teaching African Traditional Religions in a Zimbabwean University
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2001-07)The crusade by the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe witnessed in I999 during the Constitutional Commission's outreach programme was designed to have Christianity declared the official religion of Zimbabwe. This has the ... -
The Land Question in Zimbabwe: Can Indian Jurisprudence Provide the Answers?
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1999)This paper examines first, the nature of the land issue and how it was dealt with in the Lancaster House Agreement of December 1979* 1 which gave Zimbabwe its independence. Furthermore, the goals of the government's National ... -
An Investigation into the Effects of the Quality of Assignments on Performance among Third Year Students at Masvingo Teachers’ College
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2001-07)The study sought to investigate the effects of the quantity of assignments on quality of performance among third year students at Masvingo Teachers ’ College. The research employed the survey method and data was collected ... -
A Feminist View
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1983)This paper describes the feminist challenge to the social sciences and discusses some of the issues emerging from this confrontation. It then reviews some of the social science literature on Zimbabwean women. An attempt ...