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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"Zimbabwean"”.
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The Zimbabwean Women's Movement, 1995-2000
This research project comes out of my own 7-year engagement with the Zimbabwe women's movement. It reconstructs a herstory of Zimbabwe Women's organising with the aim of reinstating a herstory in order to challenge malestream narratives that seem intent on disappearing women. In doing this it seeks …
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Urbanisation, Shona culture and Zimbabwean literature
… thesis examines the impact of urbanisation on Zimbabwean culture, particularly the Shona culture as it is represented in Zimbabwean literature. My main argument in this thesis is that Zimbabwean literature suggests that urbanisation is harmful and destructive to the Shona culture and the way of …
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The Zimbabwean crisis : problems and prospects
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-88).
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Capital structures under hyperinflation : the Zimbabwean experience
… conventional capital structure theories in the Zimbabwean environment between 1998 and 2006. In the literature review, the research presents an overview of four main capital structure theories namely; trade-off, signalling, pecking order and agency theory. The research critically examined …
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White discourse in post-independence Zimbabwean literature
… space for white discourse in postcolonial Zimbabwean society. In addition to the displaced moral space, and the removal of the economic and political power base, there has been an appropriation of control over the material means of production of any discourse and white discourse, which has …
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An exploration of the experiences of Zimbabwean women informal cross-border traders at the Zimbabwean/South African BeitBridge border post
… and harassment. This research worked with eleven Zimbabwean cross border traders to explore the theoretical tensions between notions of ‘empowerment’ and notions of ‘disadvantage’ arising from the traders’ experiences. The study concentrated in particular on the traders’ representation of their …
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Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families
<p>Approximately one quarter of Zimbabwean adults left their country of birth during the past twenty years. These sojourners are increasingly dispersed as tightening immigration regimes in preferred destinations and fluctuating global opportunities lead them to places with fewer historical links to …
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Mourning and Melancholia in Zimbabwean Culture and Cinema
… the little remaining evidence of written Zimbabwean culture before colonialism. Today, there is a fragment of evidence that shows pre colonial Zimbabwean culture: it is forever lost. The colonial era is also relatively sparse regarding its cultural outputs, which is typical of any trauma …
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Herstory : Maidei Chivi, an HIV positive Zimbabwean woman
… of a 36 year old HIV positive middle class black Zimbabwean woman, Maidei Chivi (pseudonym). Maidei is well educated, financially secure and wields enormous power both within her family and at her workplace. She therefore, unlike many women, does not fall into the typical HIV victim category, …
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
"This thesis details how Zimbabwean stone sculpture has been creatively conceived in terms of a ""tribal"" renaissance by the first director of the National Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, Frank McEwen. Despite the complexity belying the movement's history, McEwen initiated the Shona sculpture …
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Estimation of Zimbabwean migration for the period 1992-2012
… research seeks to estimate the net number of Zimbabwean migrants for the period 1992 to 2012, by using census data from Zimbabwe and census data from the major receiving countries of Zimbabwean migrants (South Africa and the UK) and data from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs …
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Representations of post-2000 displacement in Zimbabwean women's literature
This study examines literature by Zimbabwean women that explores evictions and migrations of people from 2000 to 2009 when the crisis subsided with the enactment of the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
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The Effects of Dollarisation to the Zimbabwean Economy (1990-2017)
… to establish the effects of dollarisation on the Zimbabwean economy covering a period of 28 years from 1990 to 2017. The study employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to establish the short and long run relationship between dollarisation, financial performance indicators (FPIs) …
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CSR practices in the Zimbabwean mining Sector: A Structuration Theory Perspective.
… policy, and regulation formation in the Zimbabwean mining sector. The study used the survey and archival documentary methods to collect data from 34 mining companies in Zimbabwe from 2017 to 2019. The study adopted a mixed methods approach supported by structuration theories. The result …
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Race, Identity, and Belonging in Early Zimbabwean Nationalism(s), 1957-1965
… traditional understandings of race within Zimbabwean nationalism. It explores the interactions between socio-cultural identities and belonging in black African nationalist thinking and politics, and focuses on the formative decade between the emergence of mass African nationalist political …
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Ethnic migration patterns in South Africa: A case of Zimbabwean immigrants
Zimbabwean-born migrants form the largest proportion of the foreign-born population in South Africa; however, relatively little is known about both the international and internal migration behaviour of this population group. This study reviews several migration theories, and existing evidence on …
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Feminist judgments: interrogating Zimbabwean judgments using anti-essentialist feminist legal theory
… this thesis offers commentary on how three Zimbabwean appeal judgments, selected from a reading and review of some of the most prominent cases in the last 20 years, could have been decided differently from an anti-essentialist feminist perspective. The three cases cover the following topics: …
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Analyzing Thabo Mbeki's policy of 'quiet diplomacy' in the Zimbabwean crisis
This thesis discusses the approach taken by the South African government in response to the political and economic crisis that has gripped neighbouring Zimbabwe since the year 2000. Its aim is to explain why South Africa, under the leadership of Thabo Mbeki, adopted the controversial policy widely …
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