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A Survey of Constitutional Amendments in Post-independence (1980- 1999)
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1999)Zimbabwe's constitution has been amended fifteen times in the past nineteen years. Considering that the American constitution has only been amended 26 times in over 200 years, the Zimbabwean scenario is rather extra ordinary. ... -
Chronic Brucella Pyelonephritis with Calcification: Short Review of the Literature and Report of a Case
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1957-11)The localisation of brucellosis in the urinary tract is an infrequently reported condition. The paucity of recorded cases may be due to the rarity of the condition or to the fact that the profession as a whole is not ... -
Booker T. Washington’s Philosophy of the ‘Grand Trinity’ in Education
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1986)The purpose of this article is to examine the philosophy of the ‘Grand Trinity’ in education of Booker T. Washington. Among other things the following aspects will be examined: his background and factors that influenced ... -
Biochemistry and Benefit to Man
(UZ Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia ), 1977)A biochemist has been defined as someone who ‘talks of Chemistry to Biologists, of Biology to Chemists, and of women to other Biochemists’. However, nowadays there are many of the fair sex among the members of our profession ... -
An Investigation into Sleeping Patterns of Blind Children
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2001-07)Ten congenitally blind primary school children aged between 7 and 12 years were investigated and observed for a reduction or absence of photic input to the hypothalamus, which is required to entrain circadian rhythms which ... -
Insolvency and the Corporate Debtor: Some Legal Aspects of Creditors Rights Under Corporate Insolvency in Zimbabwe
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1995)A debtor who is unable to pay his debts triggers the pursuit of a variety of remedies by his creditors. However, the law has, since historic times, refused to give creditors an unbridled avenue to the debtors' person or ... -
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 ...