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Date Issued:: 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: This paper attempts to trace the historical development of social security in Zimbabwe and to explore the possible options for developing a comprehensive social security system. The paper postulates that the development of social security in Zimbabwe is inextricably linked to the country's colonial history. Racial discrimination in colonial Rhodesia led to the introduction of fragmented social security schemes (for the non-African population) old age pensions, public assistance and occupational pensions for purposes of income maintenance in cases of involuntary loss of income. The same protection was not extended to Africans because it was assumed that their needs were simple and easily met within the peasant economy. Although attainment of independence brought an end to all forms of racial discrimination, Zimbabwe still does not have a comprehensive social security system. A unique administrative framework could be set up to enable the rural population to participate in a contributory social security scheme and at the same time benefit from a non-contributory social security scheme. The success of such an approach depends on linking it to a strategy of rural development geared towards increasing the productivity of the poor.
Date Issued:: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: For a long time, Pan-Africanists have advocated the establishment of a Pan-African University. In spite of various efforts in this direction, the hope has failed to materialise. The challenge is that such a university must be a new university, not only in the approach to teaching and research, but more fundamentally, in its strategic conception and its placement at the base of African and human emancipation and liberation. The establishment of the Pan-African University should have as its overall goal the provision of opportunities for higher and advanced education for students and adult learners in the context of a new African-based epistemology and methodology. The models of Western Universities which Africa adopted have proved completely unsuitable for Africa's needs. But for the Pan-African University to set a new path in the search for knowledge and truth, it must first and foremost be built on a sound spiritual basis that highlights those aspects of African spiritual life that has enabled the African people to survive as a human community throughout the centuries. It is time that such a task be embarked on headlong.
Date Issued:: 2003-06-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: African Journal of Political Science