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Anaesthesia in Obstetrics
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1959-01)Anaesthesia for obstetrical cases is regarded by the general practitioner and occasionally even by the anaesthetist with great respect and a certain amount of fear; and rightly so, for in the hands of an inexperienced ... -
Essay Review: Turmoil and Tenacity: The Road to the Unity Accord
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1991)Turmoil and Tenacity is both an academic and political study. It could not have been otherwise given its inspiration and the occupations of its contributors. The project was inspired by the signing of the Unity Accord ... -
State and Industrial Relations in Developing Countries: Focus on Zimbabwe: Paper prepared for the 8th World Congress of The International Industrial Relations Association, Brussels: 4 - 8 September, 1989
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Housing Policy, Production and Consumption in Harare: a Review
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1990)This article analyses housing policy, production and consumption in Harare. It reviews most (hopefully all) of the recent literature on urban housing in Zimbabwe, most of which is on the low-income sector in Harare. The ... -
Community Development in Pre-Independence Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1985)AIMS OF THE STUDY. Community Development Policy was officially adopted in Rhodesia in May 1962. From this date, until after its climax in f970, it was one of the major rural planning policy instruments in the African Tribal ... -
An Investigation into Language Attitudes of Secondary-School Students in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1990)This article seeks to explore some of the contradictions in the language attitudes of school children in Zimbabwe that were discovered in the data collected for a study of language attitudes among secondary-school pupils.1 ... -
The Imperative of Educational Co-Operation: the Time for Action: a University Public Lecture Delivered on the Eve of the Conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa on the Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe on 1 June 1984
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1984)This is the second in the series of University of Zimbabwe Public Lectures inaugurated last year by the Prime Minister, the Honourable Comrade Robert G. Mugabe. We feel greatly honoured by your presence tonight, Comrade ... -
Towards a Curriculum Analysis Model for National Development
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1986)In this article, it will be postulated that existing methods of analysis and describing the curriculum, as a basis for providing information feedback in order to understand its planning and development, are inadequate. The ... -
Essay Review: Famine in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1990)The major arguments of this attractively written and easily comprehensible publication are: pre-colonial famines did not normally cause mass starvation and were not responsible for the low population before 1900. Under ... -
Ethics in Administration
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1986)The SUBJECT of ethics and morals and their application to educational administration is a relatively recent phenomenon. Ethics and morals had been left to the philosophers, but now issues and problems are being raised in ... -
Traditional African Stories as Learning Materials
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1986)Oral story-telling, conducted through many generations of Southern African peoples during the period before the onset of Western colonial influence, provided one of the most significant developments in traditional African ... -
Observations Upon the Oral Mucosa of the African
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1958-03)The oral cavity, quite apart from those structures properly included in the realm of dentistry, is of great clinical importance, for it lends itself readily to inspection and examination and, like the eye, can reflect the ... -
Situational Analysis on Primary Teacher Preparation for Environmental Science Education in Zimbabwe
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2001-11)Knowledge of the existing situation and of current practices is fundamental to human resources development and training programmes. This article reports on a situation analysis to explore the structural problems, teaching ... -
A Survey of Bindura University of Science Education Student Teachers' Perceptions of the Mentoring Model of Teaching Practice
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2001-11)The study investigated student teachers 'perceptions of the mentoring model of teaching practice that they went through with a view to improving future mentoring programmemes for student teachers from this university and ... -
Epilepsy and its Variations
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1959-01)Epilepsy is an extremely common disease, although actual statistics on racial and geographical distribution are virtually unobtainable. Turner in 1907 estimated that the ratio of epilepsy per thousand of the population in ... -
Strategies Used by Chitungwiza Day Care Centre Caregivers to Deal with Separation Anxiety in Preschool Children
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2009-11)This study was conducted to investigate strategies used by Chitungwiza day care centre caregivers to deal with separation anxiety in preschool children. It was important to have an insight into the strategies used because ... -
Primary School Teachers’ Colleges’ Preparation of Student Teachers for the Teaching of Children’s Literature - The Case of Marymount, Masvingo, Mogernster and Bondolfi Teachers’ Colleges
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE) University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2007-09)The study was an investigation into the primary school teachers' colleges' preparation of student teachers for the teaching of children's literature. It was established that there is no systematic and deliberate preparation ... -
Book Review: Mujajati, G. (2008) Mwana Waamai (My Mother’s Daughter)
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2009-11)Written in the ChiShona language of Zimbabwe, Mwana Waamai, Gorge Mujajati’s fifth literary offering, grimly predicts the horrendous Joseph Fritzl tale of incest and abduction (first brought to light in April, 2008 and ... -
The Propriety of Administration of Oaths and Affirmations by Prosecutors in the Magistrates Courts in Zimbabwe
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1991)This article was mainly inspired by rather an anomalous but rampant practice by the magistrates in Zimbabwe of requiring prosecutors appearing before them to swear in witnesses. This practice is common at the Rotten Row ... -
Simple Guide to Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in Relation to Surgery
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1959-02)The rapid advances in surgery and anaesthetics are making more extensive surgical procedures possible and allowing more “poor risk” patients to be operated on with a reasonable chance of survival. An important advance has ...