https://hdl.handle.net/10646/193 2026-04-16T11:47:19Z 2026-04-16T11:47:19Z Chirisa, Innocent Gaza, Marilyn Bandauko, Elmond https://hdl.handle.net/10646/3369 2025-12-14T01:13:16Z 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z

Housing cooperatives and the politics of local organization and representation in peri-urban Harare, Zimbabwe Chirisa, Innocent; Gaza, Marilyn; Bandauko, Elmond Housing cooperatives have emerged in the context of housing challenges in the urban areas as a strategy for securing low-cost housing accommodation in peri-urban Harare. They constitute vehicles that allow people to pool resources and secure tenure. The paper explains the “politics of peri-urban housing” in contemporary Zimbabwe by looking into the resurgence of these new forms of housing cooperatives. The paper compares five sites in Harare (Whitecliffe, Hatcliffe, Caledonia, and Southlea Park and Hopley in Harare South) to provide insights into the politics of peri-urban housing and security of tenure. We argue that political identity, networks, and participation have been at the core of these housing cooperatives as residents sought to secure tenure in the peri-urban areas by enhancing citizenship rights.

2014-12-01T00:00:00Z Chirisa, Innocent https://hdl.handle.net/10646/2968 2026-01-06T01:11:10Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Building and urban planning in Zimbabwe with special reference to Harare: Putting needs, costs and sustainability in focus Chirisa, Innocent This article examines construction and its relationship with urban planning in Zimbabwe. Urban planning has been blamed for making the building process cumbersome, thereby raising transaction costs. Such transaction costs include planning and associated bureaucratic processes, which are often underestimated by construction investors. Although planning is critical for the sustainability of buildings in Zimbabwe, it still relies heavily on outdated building standards set by the British. The social, economic, and physical environment in which construction takes place has greatly changed. Issues concerning costs, investments, building materials, planning laws, and climate change play a key role in shaping urban environments. They are thus examined in the context of sustainable construction, a field of science that addresses relevant societal needs and issues of technology. This article is a theoretical and empirical review of the present needs and costs characterizing the construction industry. It examines both micro and macro-scale building processes and issues raised by different players in the industry. Can sustainability be achieved with the current mantra of building operations, guided by the present planning diktats and procedures?

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Chirisa, Innocent E.W Mumba, Artwell Dirwai, Simbarashe.O https://hdl.handle.net/10646/2967 2025-10-02T01:12:43Z 2014-02-19T00:00:00Z

A review of the evolution and trajectory of the African union as an instrument of regional integration Chirisa, Innocent E.W; Mumba, Artwell; Dirwai, Simbarashe.O This review paper seeks to analyse African integration in terms of its magnitude of solidarity, the state and typology of integration and functioning. It assesses the strengths, weaknesses, objectives, successes and failures of the African integration project as well as threats to its survival. The primary goal is to sift between issues with the view of better informing the future of the integration. The paper acknowledges how, in 2002, the OAU (formed in 1963) convened to reconstitute and become the African Union (AU) composed of eight Regional Economic Communities. The reformed union has spelt out gender equality, strategic planning, intra-trade, non-indifference to suffering in member states and sustainability, as additional objectives to those of the former OAU. This idea has been to foster integration to promote peace, security and cooperation hence solidarity. It can now be assessed succinctly that African integration has arisen in the need for amalgamation of efforts to solve African problems with African solutions.

2014-02-19T00:00:00Z Chirisa, Innocent E.W Kawadza, Shingai T Bandauko, Elmond https://hdl.handle.net/10646/2966 2026-01-06T01:14:09Z 2014-05-09T00:00:00Z

Answering to the domesticability of exotic options and strategies in managing Africa’s urban landscapes for sustainability beyond 2015 Chirisa, Innocent E.W; Kawadza, Shingai T; Bandauko, Elmond This study aims at critically assessing the land management strategies that can be instrumental in bringing sound governance to urban landscapes in Africa with the view of mapping the potential, minimum conditions for success and constraints to doing so. This study is qualitative by approach and case study based by design, assesses practices in land management from a few cities (Nairobi, Abuja, Harare, Kigali, Johannesburg and Addis Ababa). Peculiarities and differences in the practices of land management in these cities is the basis for their purposeful selection. The evaluation of the land management practices in these cities is in terms of the current realities and the possibility for the acceptability of new, exotic but deemed sustainable urban land management styles. Noted strongly in this current discourse is that Africa is a region with varied of contexts requiring a critical assessment of issues before policy strategies are implemented in terms of land tenure, land administration corruption, political will and receptivity of the so-called foreign philosophies in urban land governance. The study recommends relevant training of the land and planning experts in Africa. In addition, there is general need to balance between ‘place prosperity’ with ‘people prosperity’ as they relate to land management noting that space and capital make the difference in sustainable human habitats’ creation and management.

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