The purpose of this study was to investigate the causes and effects of drug abuse among primary school learners in Shibuyunji district of Zambia. Guided by Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory, the study was qualitative in nature and relied on verbal narrative or descriptions. Four schools in...
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The creation of new districts in Zambia has in the recent past been given more attention following the implementation of the decentralisation by a devolution model in order to take public services closer to the people. The study sought to evaluate the capacity of the new Mwansabombwe Town Council...
Download PDF ↓Introduction: Zambia’s Education system keeps recording high dropout rates among adolescent girls in secondary school due to unintended pregnancy. Teenage pregnancies reported among girls in grades 1-12 at both primary and secondary level from the years of 2010 to 2017 show that at primary level...
Download PDF ↓This study sought to compare agility, cardiovascular endurance and body composition components of physical fitness between 4 v 4 small sided football game players and 11 v 11 large sided football games players at David Livingstone College of Education in Zambia. A Quasi-experimental design using...
Download PDF ↓This study examines the significant constraints on industrialisation (development of secondary industries) in colonial Zambia. The study argues that although a number of imperial scholars have attempted to identify the significant constraints on industrialisation during the colonial period, there...
Download PDF ↓1226. Constructing corruption from minibus and taxi drivers’ verbal accounts in the city of Livingstone
Bribery involving traffic police officers and minibus as well as taxi drivers in Livingstone, (Zambia) is a social problem despite efforts being made to reduce corruption. Police bribing drivers and drivers bribing the police have continued to occur without being abetted. The purpose of this...
Download PDF ↓1227. Consumption or profit? edible caterpillars collection in Northern province of Zambia, 1950-2019
Since the 1950s, edible caterpillars were being collected by the people of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia‟s) Northern Province. They were consumed as a delicacy at household level. In some instances, however, edible caterpillars were sold for cash later when the cash economy was introduced or...
Download PDF ↓The Government of the Republic of Zambia spends millions of kwachas every year for the development of road infrastructure. This was evidenced in the 2020 Budget were over ZMW10.5 billion was allocated for various road projects. With such sums of funds spent on road infrastructure, it is...
Download PDF ↓The study investigated the contribution of local authorities to the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Zambia, with a primary focus on Lusaka City Council (LCC). In an effort to develop SMEs in Zambia, government has, over the years, instituted various reforms which include the...
Download PDF ↓In this thesis, we recall three types of convexities in metric spaces, namely; Menger convexity, Takahashi convexity andM-convexity. We then generalise these convexities to the framework of T0-quasi-metric spaces. Since the concept of convexities heavily relies on the concept of betweenness, a...
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