Promise M Hlungwani

Biographic Data

ID4052541
NAMEPromise M Hlungwani
GIVEN NAMESPromise M
FAMILY NAMEHlungwani
SIGNATUREHLUNGWANI P M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zimbabwe
ORCID0000-0003-2744-7788
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Electoral democracy and human rights during the Covid-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

    E Yingi, Promise M HlungwaniARTICLEAfrican Identities2024References: 20

    The outbreak of COVID-19 ominously heralded a health crisis across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a public health emergency in January 2020 and the world became concerned with the havoc the disease would potentially cause. Though the pandemic was a health crisis, it posed a lethal challenge to shaky contemporary democracies across the world. Governments, including that of Zimbabwe, responded to the pandemic by e…

  • Towards the realization of socio-economic rights of children in Zimbabwe; a child sensitive policy framework

    Open AccessPromise Hlungwani, Promise M HlungwaniARTICLEAfrican Identities2024References: 18

    With high incidences of poverty and a depressed economy as well as limited political will, it will be difficult to guarantee the socio-economic rights of children in Zimbabwe. Children struggle to get access to basic services such as health care, basic education, clean water and proper sanitation. This study critically reviews the implementation or lack thereof, of the key socio-economic rights as enunciated in the constitution and child-sensitiv…

  • Development or destruction? Impacts of mining on the environment and rural livelihoods at Connemara Mine, Zimbabwe

    Martin Magidi, Promise M HlungwaniARTICLESouth African Geographical Journal2023

    This study interrogates the impacts of mining at Connemara Gold Mine on the environment and rural livelihoods for surrounding communities the mine. While we acknowledge that mining is a very lucrative business and one of the major drivers of the Zimbabwean economy, we argue that most of the benefits of mining tend to be enjoyed elsewhere and not by host communities. We roped in the Treadmill of Production and the Resource Curse theories to demons…

  • Impact of Covid 19 on livelihoods of female entrepreneurs in Marondera urban

    Open AccessPrince Muzuva, Promise M HlungwaniARTICLECogent Social Sciences2022

    Urban livelihoods in Zimbabwe were heavily impacted by the emergence of COVID-19 which was accompanied by several lockdown measures which suffocated the livelihood strategies among the low-income group of the economy. This situation is more pronounced in the high-density suburbs where most female breadwinners are employed in the informal sector. COVID-19-induced lockdowns aggravated the potential of small-scale female entrepreneurial projects to …

  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in the Heart of the SDG Agenda: The Role of Education in Zimbabwe

    E Yingi, Promise M Hlungwani et al.ARTICLEAfrica Review2022

    The world has reached the threshold of an absolute overhaul and reconfiguration of society and workplaces. The transformation is being caused by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4 IR ), which is changing every facet of life, including education. The revolution is epitomised by breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology and quantum computing, among others. This comes at a time when the United Nations has conc…

  • Experiences of enacting critical secondary school history pedagogy in rural Zimbabwe

    Open AccessPromise M HlungwaniARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2022

    Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of a critical approach in the teaching and learning, especially for candidates dealing with complex subjects as History. This study corroborates research in this field by reporting on the experiences of a teacher who taught secondary school History as a subject in rural areas. The findings from a teaching practice at one secondary school in Mwenezi District reveal that there are peculiar issues th…

  • The Covid-19 pandemic and regional integration in Africa: Implications of the responses from Ecowas and Sadc

    E Yingi, Promise Hlungwani et al.ARTICLESouth African Journal of…2022

    The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to regional bodies across the world. It resulted in a synchronised disruption of the world economy and regional integration agendas, and the re-emergence of nationalism and protectionism. The response to this health emergency differed across regions as regional and local impact of the disease varied. There were coordinated responses to the health crisis by some regional bodi…

  • Mainstreaming youth policy in Zimbabwe – what role for rural youth

    Open AccessPromise Hlungwani, Promise M Hlungwani et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Youth exclusion in policy formulation and implementation, especially in rural areas, is worsening their socio-economic wellbeing. This article evaluates current youth empowerment policies and the institutions mandated to foster youth emancipation in Zimbabwe. In exploring the compatibility of these policies in a rural context, the researchers purposively selected and interviewed the youths involved in policy implementation and self-help projects …