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‘Hawks and Doves’: Th e Impact of Operation Murambatsvina on Johane Marange Apostolic Church in Zimbabwe

Sibanda, Fortune; Makahamadze, Tompson; Maposa, Richard Shadreck (Exchange 37, 2008)

Th e paper discusses the socio-economic and religious impact of Operation Murambatsvina on Johane Marange Apostolic Church in Masvingo, a city and Zvishavane, a mining town. It adopts a comparative approach in order to ...
‘Battle for Survival’: Responses of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the HIV and AIDS Pandemic in Zimbabwe

Sibanda, Fortune; Makahamadze, Tompson (SMT Swedish Missiological Themes, 2008)

Of all the epidemics that have emerged in history, HIV and AIDS is one of the most widespread and devastating. Since the beginning of this pandemic in the 1980s, it has swept like veld fire around the world. In recent ...
Ngano: Teaching Environmental Education Using the Shona Folktale

Mutasa, Davie E.; Nyota, Shumirai; Mapara, Jacob (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2008-03)

This paper examines the implications of using the Shona folktale as a tool and method for teaching environmental education (EE) which asserts that the folktale is a very effective means in teaching EE since it instructs ...
African Indigenous Games: Opportunities and Challenges

Mapara, Jacob (OSM Communications and Training Solutions, 2009)

This paper argues that indigenous games are those games and related activities that are performed by the indigenous populations of a particular geographical area. In the case of Africa, these are games and activities that ...
Chiedza

Masitera, Erasmus (2009-05-01)
Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Zimbabwe: Juxtaposing Postcolonial Theory

Mapara, Jacob (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2009-09)

This paper argues that indigenous knowledge systems’ emergence via Zimbabwe as an example is more than a case of a sudden realisation on the part of the international community (especially from Western scholars of the ...
The Shona Conception of Euthanasia: A Quest to Depart from Zimbabwe Tradition

Mawere, Munyaradzi (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2009-12)

Euthanasia is among the most popular titles of several academic debates on studying prevailing social norms concerning medical ethics, and thus, most of the literature focuses either on arguments for or against euthanasia. ...
Taboos as sources of Shona people's environmental ethics

Chemhuru, Munamato; Masaka, Denis (Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, 2010)

The Shona environmental taboos foster a sustainable use of the environment. Among the Shona people, an unconscious appreciation of certain ‘environmental taboos’ informs an esoteric environmentally based knowledge that is ...
RECLAIMING THE ZIMBABWEAN VOICE IN MEDIA AND EDUCATION

MASITERA, ERASMUS (2010)

The poltics of domination is rampant in the Zimbabwean political and social arenas .In more definate terms ,the practice is really dehumanizing in that it denies human beings the right to map and shape their own destinies ...
TOWARDS A FAIR AND VIABLE GLOBALIZATION THEORY

Masitera, Erasmus (2010)
On Pursuit of the Purpose of Life

Mawere, Munyaradzi (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2010-03)

This paper concerns the question of the purpose of human life heretofore referred to as life, as it is traditionally viewed by the Shona people of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. To most ‘ordinary people’, the question has no ...
Rethinking green revolution program: The impact of Mozambique’s fast-track green revolution program on the environment and animal rights

Mawere, Munyaradzi (Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment, 2010-06)

The green revolution program (GRP) in Mozambique has taken center stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. While the GRP is meant to reduce the country’s ...
Are physicians’ strikes ever morally justifiable? A call for a return to tradition

Mawere, Munyaradzi (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2010-08-21)

Though physicians strike provides an opportunity to generate more knowledge about the process in which legitimacy of an organization can be restored, it meets with a great deal of resistance not only by the public but from ...
Democracy and the Paradox of Zimbabwe: Lessons from Traditional Systems of Governance

Chemhuru, Munamato (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2010-09-10)

Traditional systems of governance are so outrageous that mulling over them today may seem like flogging a dead horse. In this paper however, it will be argued that; democracy, good governance, peace and development, if ...
Beyond Y2K Compliance: The Impact of Multimedia Technology on Junior Secondary School Learners in Zimbabwe

Sibanda, Fortune; Maposa, Richard S. (International Journal of Educational Research and Technology, 2010-12)

The need to be Y2K compliant took people by storm as the world entered the Third Millennium. Zimbabwe like the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa experienced the same grip of technological mystery, uncertainty and speculation. ...
MORAL DIMENSIONS OF SOME SHONA TABOOS (ZVIERA)

Masaka, Dennis; Chemhuru, Munamato (Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, 2011)

This study analyses the moral dimensions of Shona taboos. It argues that Shona taboos provide moral sanctions that help in shaping a person’s unhu (virtue) in the human community. It is through such inculcation of proper ...
BARRIERS AND CONSTRAINTS TO EPISTEMOLOGICAL ACCESS TO ONLINE LEARNING IN MOZAMBIQUE SCHOOLS

Mawere, Munyaradzi (International Journal of Politics and Good Governance, 2011)

While global corporations and western governments have subtly and systematically peddled the utopia and hype about the capacity of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to radically transform learning and ...
Zimbabwe’s Constitution Making Process and the Death Penalty: A Philosophical Reflection

Chemhuru, Munamato; Masaka, Denis (2011-06)

The institution of capital punishment has a long history. Despite growing consensus that the institution of capital punishment is not inherently sacrosanct and that it breaches fundamental human rights, the present Zimbabwean ...
Ethical quandaries in spiritual healing and herbal medicine: A critical analysis of the morality of traditional medicine advertising in southern African urban societies

Mawere, Munyaradzi (.The Pan African Medical Journal, 2011-09-21)

This paper critically examines the morality of advertising by practitioners in spiritual healing and herbal medicine heretofore referred to as traditional medicine, in southern African urban societies. While the subject ...
African Theology and identity: Reflections on Zion Christian Church experiences and responses to the Zimbabwean crisis, 2000–2010

Sibanda, Fortune; Maposa, Richard Shadreck; Makahamadze, Tompson (Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2011-11)

The contemporary Christian church in Zimbabwe is at crossroads owing to the political, economic and social crises that have affected the country for the past decade. Using the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) as a case study, ...

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