https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:16:12 GMT 2026-04-10T12:16:12Z https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6991 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6991 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Makape, Precious Kuziwa https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6990 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6990 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Bhila, Tanyaradzwa Jaqueline https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6989 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6989 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Chigapa, Dzidzai https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6988 Title: Power and Identity in film: A case of the text “Black Panther” (2018) Authors: Mathonsi, Nosisa Abstract: The study is about power and identity in film Black Panther (2018). In this case the study critically explains how power and identity are being portrayed in the film Black Panther. The study also gives the reference to the African films that states the identity in films. It is guided by theories that focuses on frame work theory and semiotic theory. The study also found out the debunking of power and identity being revealed on the film that is the misconception about Africa. The study also focuses on the role of women in the text. In films women are viewed as inferior therefore, in this case they are superior as they play the essential role and are portrayed to be mighty in power and be able to challenge the men in the field. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6988 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Mathonsi, Nosisa