https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/28 2026-04-14T22:38:29Z 2026-04-14T22:38:29Z Jakaza Ernest https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6609 2025-06-09T13:57:58Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Communicating intimate partner violence on social media: of hidden identities in storytelling and confessions Authors: Jakaza Ernest Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been on the increase at an alarming rate across the globe. IPV is being experienced by both parties involved. Factors behind the increase are highly contested. However, the dearth of the support fabric in the family set up has been touted as one of the reasons why disgruntled partners and/or victims seek solace in the social media spaces for sympathy, empathy and advice. In hidden identities, partners divulge their predicament to the social media family with the hope to be assisted. However, the narratives have been understudied and theorized from a discourse-linguistic perspective. Deploying strands from the Appraisal Theory and Narrative Paradigm Approach, this netnographic study investigates the intimate partner violence reports on Facebook social group, Zimbabwean Deep Secrets (Confessions). The study displays the displacement of the sekuru (grandfather), ambuya (grandmother) and tete (aunt) with social media friend advisors. In hidden identities, the narrative voice confesses to a plethora of factors bedevilling partners in intimate relationships. The indispensable ‘other’ in intimate partners’ lives has successfully been adapted in the social media public sphere and to people’s contemporary existence.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Jakaza Ernest Isaac Mhute https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6274 2024-09-19T06:58:45Z 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The effectiveness of strategic health communication in Zimbabwe: A case of Masvingo Provincial School Vaccinations Authors: Isaac Mhute Abstract: Zimbabwe has been hit hard by a variety of diseases, with AIDS, Covid-19, Cancer, Typhoid andCholera being some of the most recent ones. Lots of lives have been lost in the process resultingin some of the diseases, like AIDS and Covid-19, being declared pandemics in the country. Inan effort to minimise fatalities, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), through the Ministryof Health and Child Care (MoHCC), has resorted to some proactive and reactive measureswhich include prescribing safety precautions, vaccination and treatment of infected citizens.A close look at responses to the initiatives, for instance, in the fight against the Covid-19pandemic, demonstrates mixed feelings in the majority of the populace resulting in fatalmoves like refusing to observe precautionary measures and vaccination hesitancy. The samekind of response seems to be transpiring with efforts towards vaccination against diseaseslike COVID-19 and cervical cancer in schools, which has allegedly seen some parents forbiddingtheir children from taking the doses by going as far as making them bunk-off school each timesuch exercises are scheduled to take place. This is quite worrisome for an environment thatis being frequented by pandemics of quite alarming magnitudes. In this regard, the currentqualitative study sort to analyse the impact of strategic health communication in Zimbabwetaking Masvingo province as a case. It employed interviews and focus group discussions(FGDs) with purposively sampled schools’ teachers, students and parents to generate datathat was analysed using the Conceptual Model for Evaluating Emergency Risk Communication(CMEERC) in Public Health.

2023-04-01T00:00:00Z Isaac Mhute Hugh Mangeya https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5883 2023-10-27T12:28:24Z 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z

Title: The nexus between tertiary students’ ‘side-line’ sports chants and the perpetuation of attitudes towards gender-based violence in Zimbabwe. Authors: Hugh Mangeya Abstract: The study explores the nexus between tertiary students‚ side-line sports chants and the perpetuation of attitudes towards gender-based violence (GBV) in Zimbabwe. Given that GBV occurs in a plethora of forms, and levels, the study submits that attitudes, and their social cultivation, are important in both the perpetration and combating of the social problem. Attitudes are critical in shaping gender relations and power matrices obtaining therein. They benchmark taken-for-granted rules of engagements as well as thresholds beyond which interventions are made from a popular perspective. Whilst there are many spaces on which these attitudes are cultivated, the present study argues that side-line sports chants, an important cultural text in any given society, provide spaces for the negotiation of gendered attitudes in any given social milieu. Thus, they function much more than simply providing support and motivation for both players and coaching staff during tertiary students’ sporting activities. The research uses purposively sampled side-line chants for analysis. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is used in unpacking the ways in which the chants shape and (re)configure gendered power relations amongst this critical demographic group.

2023-06-12T00:00:00Z Hugh Mangeya Mutekwa, Anias https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5745 2025-09-02T11:46:07Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An analysis of intertextual entanglements in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools Authors: Mutekwa, Anias Abstract: This article examines intertextuality in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools (Harare: Weaver Press, 2005), focusing on the novel’s entanglement with earlier texts and its extra-literary context. It argues that the text exhibits generic, stylistic, and thematic entanglements with its precursor texts, particularly Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1988) and Dambudzo Marechera’s Mindblast, or, the Definitive Buddy (Harare: College Press, 1984), and with the post-2000 Zimbabwean context, in ways that enrich and extend current and earlier understandings of these texts. It establishes that, besides generic and stylistic entanglements, Chairman of Fools dialogues with these precursor texts in the representation of the figure of the non-conformist artist, discourses of gender, and discourses of mental breakdown. It also engages with discourses of the post-2000 Zimbabwean crisis, inclusive of the “crisis of masculinity”. The symbiosis of this intertextuality makes visible the non-hierarchical relationships that exist amongst these related texts, both literary and non-literary, and brings into focus the instability and permeability of the boundaries often used to order and create demarcations within and between these texts. The intertextuality also points at some of the literary continuities and discontinuities in the Zimbabwean literary canon—and hence its evolution—together with social and ideological shifts in Zimbabwean society.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Mutekwa, Anias