Drought and water scarcity constrain the socioeconomic development of many (semi-) arid
regions of Southern Africa. Moreover, due to the increase of water withdrawals upstream, the …

In Zimbabwe, like many parts of the world, climate change has triggered the occurrence of
conflicts, which exacerbates social, economic and political instabilities. In response to the …

Land remains an absolute necessity in agriculture particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where
access to productive land plays an imperative role in food security and poverty reduction …

If the poor who knock at people's doors, begging, are hungry for food; the poor of
Matabeleland, who long to knock at every door including that of the Zimbabwean …

For the contemporary Ndebele people, Matabeleland, as a geopolitical space, has
completely refused to emerge fully formed out of the shells of history. It is hard to imagine …

The last ten thousand years have seen water supply technology developed from the
collection of surface water from rivers and ponds and groundwater from springs and wells in …

The present study sought to determine the appropriateness of conventional water supply
technologies (boreholes/deep wells) by determining the presence and functionality of …