University of Zimbabwe Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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The Integration of Personal Laws: Tanzania’s Experience
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1983)Tanzania’s endeavors to find an appropriate law of marriage and divorce began immediately after independence in 1961 when President Nyerere sanctioned the recording of the personal law of various communities throughout the ... -
Prediction of Peak Expiratory Flow Rates in Stunted Children
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM) , University of Zimbabwe (UZ.), 2001-03)Objective: To assess the effect of stunting on peak expiratory flow rates (PEFR) in Malawian children. Design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Two public primary schools randomly selected in Blantyre, the largest city in ... -
"Popular Justice", Resistance Commitee Courts and the Judicial Process in Uganda (1988-1982)
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The Smallholder Farm as an Appropriate Water Management Unit in Wetland Development
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1995)Rising population pressures in Africa have caused the agricultural use of wetlands to become increasingly important. Developing large surface irrigation infrastructures, as Asia did during the sixties and seventies, often ... -
Reflections on Gender Sensitivity at Masvingo Teachers’ College: A Special Case of 2006/ 2007 Student Representative Council Elections.
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE) University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2008-10)The paper critically examines the concept gender sensitivity with reference to teacher training, particularly at Masvingo Teachers’ College. It outlines the special place the concept has at the college in question and in ... -
Cardiac Disease of Obscure Origin in Africa
(Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University College of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe), 1958-09)Within recent years a number of papers have emanated from East, West, Central and South Africa, all reporting a form or forms of congestive heart failure, the etiology of which remains obscure. Interest in this subject ... -
Criminal Law Policy in Relation to the Defence of Provocation
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1983)All legal systems have had to address the difficult problem of deciding how to deal with the defence of provocation in the context of criminal cases. This defence is very frequently pleaded in relation to crimes of violence ... -
Acute Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction
(Faculty of Medicine; Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe (formerly University College of Rhodesia.), 1958-12)The newborn infant ejected from his comfortable isothermic habitat into a hostile world has many physiological adjustments to make in the first four weeks of life. If, as a result of intestinal obstruction, the newborn ... -
The Views of Blind Students Towards Inclusive Education
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe (UZ)., 2001-11)This study investigated the views of blind primary school pupils towards inclusive education. The main objective was to assess how people with disabilities themselves view inclusive education. Do they appreciate and accept ... -
Using the Type-Token ration in the Study of Repetition Patterns in the Second Language Lexical Development of Learners from Two Different English Language Backgrounds
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe (UZ)., 2009-11)This paper makes a developmental study of vocabulary acquisition by 2 groups of English as a second language learners (School East and School West) who have different degrees of exposure to English input. It focuses on the ... -
Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease
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Women Under Zimbabwean Law
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe ( UZ.), 1988)This article seeks to establish and appraise the position of women under the law of Zimbabwe. Such a task must start from a consideration of the position of women under the constitution. This is because the constitution ... -
Stultifying Gender Binaries in HIV and AIDS Related Novelistic Discourse: Implications for Gender Education
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe (UZ)., 2009-11)The article is an exposition and a critique of selected novelistic voices in Shona, whose subject matter also includes HIV and AIDS. Yet the informing philosophy on HIV and AIDS in the novels is gender difference as the ... -
Judicial Activism and Development: Warning Signals from Zimbabwe
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe ( UZ.), 1991)In January, 1991 the Zimbabwe government was on the brink of enacting into law a fundamental amendment to the country’s constitution: the Eleventh Amendment1. This amendment would have the effect of denying the courts the ... -
The Baobab Tree: A Good Source of Ascorbic Acid
(Faculty of Medicine,Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe (formerly University College of Rhodesia.), 1958-09)In the course of investigating the nutritional value of indigenous foods of Southern Rhodesia, the pulp of the baobab fruit (Adansonia digitata Linn.) was found to contain comparatively high concentrations of ascorbic acid ... -
Assessment of spatial and temporal soil loss in and out of Lesotho using Rusle Model and GIS
(2013-11)Lesotho is one of the major sources to rivers that drain the southern part of southern Africa through Senqu and Sabi-Sand River. However severe soil erosion is the major environmental problem that has left the landscape ... -
Technical efficiency of sprinkler irrigation in Swaziland: a case study of the Lusip Phase 1 in Lubovane area
(2013-11)The purpose of this study was to assess the technical efficiency of sprinkler irrigation of smallholder sugarcane scheme in the Lubovane area of Swaziland in terms of design parameters, frequency of water application, ... -
Willingness to pay for improved water supply services in Shoshong, Phaleng ward, Botswana: application of Contingent Valuation Method (CVM)
(2013-12)Developing countries face the mammoth task of providing basic services and infrastructure. Amongst the top services that have provenmost difficult to provide is the provision of water supply. Since many rural people are ... -
The spatio-temporal soil moisture variation along the major tributaries of Zambezi River in the Mbire District, Zimbabwe
(2013-10)The livelihoods and subsistence of the largest number of people in Mbire communal areas depends on soil moisture evolving from seasonal floods that is tapped for agriculture. The communities have not realised the full ... -
The relationship between production performance and governance in smallholder irrigation schemes in Swaziland
(2013-11)Smallholder sugarcane growing is central to rural development and poverty alleviation in Swaziland. The main objective of smallholder sugar cane growing is to reduce poverty through increased household income. This study ...
