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Inhuman sentencing of children: A foucus on Zimbabwe and Botswana
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The prevalence of corporal punishment and life imprisonment sentences for children in Africa is tied to their legal history. Colonialism had an extensive impact on the criminal law of most African States, including the ...
Factors affecting adherence to anti-retroviral therapy among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
With the improvements in the effectiveness and availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), perinatally infected children are surviving to adolescence and emerging as a significant sub-population living with HIV/AIDS in ...
The use of information and communication technologies for accessing HIV and AIDS information by healthcare professionals in Zimbabwe
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This study sought to investigate the information needs of selected HIV and AIDS health organisations in Zimbabwe with a view to proposing a framework for developing an information access platform. ICTs can play a pivotal ...
Spatial analysis of stunting and its associations with key child health and nutrition determinants at provincial level in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Childhood stunting is an issue of global public health concern, and its irreversible effects can have far-reaching consequences, well into adulthood. Despite various interventions and efforts, stunting in Zimbabwe remains ...
Liminality, Papers and Belonging amongst Zimbabwean Immigrants in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Introduced in 2010, the Dispensation Zimbabwe Program (DZP) regularised undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. When DZP was closed, the Zimbabwe Special Permit was introduced, which was also replaced by the ...
Factors affecting adherence to anti-retroviral therapy among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Background: With the improvements in the effectiveness and availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), perinatally infected children are surviving to adolescence and emerging as a significant sub-population living with ...
Liminality, papers and belonging amongst Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Introduced in 2010, the Dispensation Zimbabwe Program (DZP) regularised undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. When DZP was closed, the Zimbabwe Special Permit was introduced, which was also replaced by the ...
Local government duality and its discontents: Rural governance and contestations for power and influence between elected officials and traditional leaders in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This thesis deploys deliberative democracy in order to explore interactions in polity dualism in
Matebeleland South and Matebeleland North, in Zimbabwe. The thesis was premised on two
major problems in the way the issue ...
Commissioned women soldiers and politics in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), are strongly interlinked in politics since independence, that is, the Army largely functions as the military wing ...
An assessment of the use of viral load monitoring on people living with HIV/AIDS taking antiretroviral therapy by nurses working at rural health centers in Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection remains a major global public health issue despite all the efforts being made to control and manage infections worldwide. Data reported in Mberengwa district suggests that less ...