https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/37 2026-04-05T17:18:10Z 2026-04-05T17:18:10Z Makape, Precious Kuziwa https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6991 2026-03-13T09:48:53Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Study Of Harare Urban Expansion And Its Impact On Rural Domboshava Community, 2000-2020 Authors: Makape, Precious Kuziwa Abstract: Using the social history approach, the study explores the dynamics surrounding Harare Urban expansion and how it has affected the rural community of Domboshava between 2000 and 2020. This is achieved by using oral interviews, archival sources, and theoretical innovations of the study of how peri-urban communities like Domboshava are being affected by inward migrations of people from the overpopulated cities. The research explains that the influx of people into Domboshava is largely a result of the problems arising in Harare because of the overpopulation in Harare. These problems have encouraged people to move into Domboshava. These migrations have however resulted in many sociocultural and economic changes in Domboshava, which can be identified as both negative and positive changes. These transformations caused by the inward migration of people into Domboshava have also opened doors to many conflicts in the area.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Makape, Precious Kuziwa Bhila, Tanyaradzwa Jaqueline https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6990 2026-03-13T09:47:56Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The use of Factionalism by Robert Mugabe to protect power 1980 to 2017 Authors: Bhila, Tanyaradzwa Jaqueline Abstract: This study serves to identify the ways that Robert Mugabe used to protect power. Its central concern is in the way he eventually became malevolent and compassionate at the same time. His use of Mugabeism is also a call of concern in this study, together with the ever growing corruption and self- aggrandizement of the ZANU PF party members. It tries to establish how factionalism was used successfully to consolidate power through aspects such as the elimination of threats to power, the use of heroism as a catalyst of factional politics, the constant use of tribalism as an agent of factionalism and how power politics later became the aspect that was used against Mugabe in the end. The study confirms how Mugabe victimised ZANU PF and how he later became a victim of ZANU PF. It elaborates on the use of strategies that were used to supress the public by virtue of operations such as Operation Murambatsvina, Operation Wavotera Papi and the Land issue. The study’s focal point is on the continuous use of both the political and tribal factions in order to perpetuate power by Robert Mugabe. For instance, how the Zezuru ethnic group remained as the only governing power in both the ZANU PF and the Zimbabwean Government, at the expense of other ethnic groups. It will show how factional disputes went out of hand as tension grew between the Lacoste under Mnangagwa and the Mujuru faction. However it will be disclose how factionalism was used as a shield to classify the citizens of Zimbabwe, at the expense of development and economic growth. The study will also look into how Mugabe embodied the party and became the law that was above the Zimbabwean constitution as well as that of the ZANU PF.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Bhila, Tanyaradzwa Jaqueline Chigapa, Dzidzai https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6989 2026-03-13T09:47:00Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The scourge of landmines on the Sengwe Communal areas, Chiredzi District, Zimbabwe, 1980-2019. Authors: Chigapa, Dzidzai Abstract: The research provides an analysis of the scourge faced by Shangaan people in Sengwe Communal area in South Eastern Lowveld as a result of the deadly landmines, a legacy of the liberation struggle. The research contends that the scourge faced by the Shangaan, Sengwe dwellers as a result of landmines was under researched. The research emphasized the dwellers that is borderland villages continues to suffer the scourge of landmines deployed by the RSF in the hinterland. Landmines recognized no treaty, it continues to cause grave consequences to the inhabitants of Sengwe after Zimbabwe gained its independence. Landmines killed, maimed and caused permanent disability. Economically, it reduced the area for cultivation and the resultant food insecurity. Dwellers loss large herds of livestock and the menace of landmines prevented the development of infrastructure. The study further explores the predicament faced by Shangaan children to prove them as the worst victims of landmines. Children suffer directly and indirectly to landmines. The study further explores strategies devised by Sengwe dwellers to live side by side with landmines and the measures devised by the Government of Zimbabwe in partnership with Non-Governmental Organization to deal with the threats of landmines. The research contends that Sengwe corridor was being neglected in terms of demining since demining started late in 2012 after demining in other minefields already started. The effectiveness of the interventions are also discussed by the study. The research made use of both primary and secondary sources.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Chigapa, Dzidzai Tawanda V. Chambwe Victor M. Gwande https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6475 2024-12-12T06:38:57Z 2024-09-11T00:00:00Z

Title: African Entrepreneurship in urban colonial Zimbabwe: The case of Highfield, 1953–1965 Authors: Tawanda V. Chambwe; Victor M. Gwande Abstract: This paper examines the importance of Highfield to the African entrepreneurship history of colonial Zimbabwe, then known as Southern Rhodesia. The Southern Rhodesia co lonial state established the township of Highfield in its capital city, Salisbury (now Harare), in 1936 as part of its spatial and racial segregation policy. The policy made Africans tempo rary residents in the urban areas. However, the post-Second World War industrial growth forced the colonial state to revisit its stance on African urbanisation. Seen as critical for the expanding manufacturing sector, African labour now had to be accommodated in the urban areas, which triggered the colonial state to expand the township of Highfield in 1956. That very year, enterprising Africans responded by taking up the expanded township’s entrepreneurial opportunities. This response and the subsequent evolution of African entrepreneurship in Highfield township are the focus of this paper. The paper provides a historical kaleidoscope of Highfield as a place of African entrepreneurship, which thus far has been occluded and separated from the dominant literature on the township’s role in the rise of African national ism and anti-colonial struggles. Highfield emerged as a cultural milieu hosting an African Re naissance in food, fashion and lifestyle inspired by a mix of modernity and indigenous ethos. Thus, the paper argues that Highfield was the entrepreneurial centre of various businesses and startups. These colourful stories of African entrepreneurship are gleaned from handwrit ten business stand applications by African traders, archival documents, and newspapers in piecing together an urban history of African entrepreneurship in the township of Highfield in colonial Zimbabwe

2024-09-11T00:00:00Z Tawanda V. Chambwe Victor M. Gwande