Browsing by Author "Ncube, Mthuthukisi"

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    Mining and Development in Southern Zimbabwe: Myth or Reality in Gwanda District?
    (2024) Moyo, Funa; Ncube, Mthuthukisi; Nkomo, Sithandweyonkosi; Mabhena, Clifford; Ncube, Vusisizwe
    The book chapter explores mineral resource development strategies for community empowerment, poverty reduction and infrastructure development in Zimbabwe's mining areas. Using descriptive survey data, the authors present a proposal on how the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act can be used as a vehicle for mineral resource development. Despite abundant mineral resources, the majority of Zimbabwean indigenous communities living close to the mines have limited access to directly or indirectly benefit from the mineral resources. The chapter argues that pro-poor mining policies that ensure the harnessing of mineral resources for community empowerment, poverty reduction and infrastructure development are paramount. The chapter further argues that the Indigenous and Economic Empowerment Act needs to be harmonised with other sector legislation in the country. The book chapter concludes that the development of infrastructure and provision of public utilities such as electricity, and water, establishing micro-credit to small and medium enterprises and implementing broad-based indigenisation policies are some of the strategies for improving rural livelihoods. Similarly, direct and indirect linkages between the mining sector and the local economy could be enhanced through the provision of food supply to the mine, manufacture of mining inputs, provision of security services and supply of labour by the local community. The harnessing of mineral resources in any country has been a contested terrain. Of late in Zimbabwe, the government has embarked on a massive indigenisation drive that has seen large-scale mines compelled by law to seed at least 10% of their mineral revenue to CSOTS. The authors recommend the harmonisation of legislation that affects harnessing of mineral resources by local communities will ensure community empowerment, poverty reduction and infrastructure development in mining districts in southern Zimbabwe.
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    Paying for Cultural Ecosystem Services: The Case of Apostolic Sects (Vapostori) in Bulawayo Metropolitan province, Zimbabwe
    (2017) Ncube, Mthuthukisi
    Apostolic Sects (Vapostori)‟s Open Space Worship (OSW) practices derive from “Ecclesiology from Below”, characterised by human choices. OSW practices‟ heavy reliance on Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) for religious services set the stage for environmentalism, invoked by one of the two main issues of the Rio De Janeiro Convention (i.e: the regulation of access to biodiversity resources by corporations, who would have to pay for them). The study explores CES drawn by Apostolic Sects and originates viable valuation systems to foster environmental conservation through a Market for Ecosystem Services (MES). The interpretivist paradigm and its attendant methods, alongside literature review were deployed to explore CES from “Masowe” Sects. Purposive sampling, followed by snowballing informed the sampling procedure until a saturation point of eight sects. KIIs, FGDs, and questionnaires were used for Sects, BCC and EMA while literature was gleaned for doctrinal institutions (formal & informal) governing the use of CES by Apostolic Sects. Religion (Vapostori) has embedded its existential roots in the African Traditional Religion, targeted places ATR declared sacred for conservation purposes for spiritual power rejuvenation, healing, and cleansing, threatening to reverse gains made under ATR. Sacred places including forests; hilltops and mountains; water bodies; redemptive open-space fires (Zambara/Choto/Murandera); power status (Tsvimbo); healing/cleansing from spiritual stones/pebbles; plants (Mukonde/Umhlonhlo); sweet-smelling trees like Muchakata/Umkhuna/Hissing are the CES used by OSW Sects. Examples include Chivavarira; Matopos; Inswazi; Fambeki (Van Beek). Chinhoyi Caves; Gonawapotera; Chirorodziva; Nyatsime and Hokoyo pools, alongside local water bodies like China dam; Umguza and Khami complete the list of CES venerated by OSW Sects. The study recommends the creation/valuation of Natural and Worship Parks through Hybridisation of Hedonic; Transport-Cost; Factor-Component; and Bequest Valuation methods, for the benefit of anthropocentric and environmental concerns. Payment options include Lease Agreement; Pay-as-You-Use (PAYU); Polluter-Pays-Principle (PPP) or Public-Private Partnesrhips (PPP) via Policy change.