Bekithemba Dube
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 571202 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bekithemba Dube |
| NOMBRES | Bekithemba |
| APELLIDO | Dube |
| FIRMA | DUBE B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6780-5669 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Continuities of Chibharo
This paper is a comparative analysis of colonial and postcolonial labour practices in Zimbabwe, focusing on the experiences of African workers in European- and Chinese-owned industries. The study answers questions on the perceived mimicking of colonial labour practices by Chinese firms in postcolonial Zimbabwe, with forced labour ( chibharo ) being a common characteristic. It argues that chibharo labour has been continued and reinvented in questi…
Art as activism
This qualitative study employs Critical Disability Theory (CDT) to examine the role of fine arts in disability activism at Cyrene Mission in Southern Rhodesia from c.1930 to c.1960. The research interrogates archival sources, oral traditions, and secondary texts, and engages with critical art analysis to explain the use of handicrafts in activism. It examines the efficacy of fine arts in challenging societal norms and in advocating for inclusion …
Monitoring and Support Practices in Rural Schools
This study investigates how monitoring and support practices are enacted and strengthened to improve matric (National Senior Certificate) performance in the Vhembe East District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Persistent underperformance in rural schools reflects structural challenges related to instructional leadership, limited resources, and weak institutional support systems. While alternative frameworks such as instructional leadership and s…
Esoteric Rumination
The ‘publish or perish’ mantra has long defined university culture worldwide. This research paper thus explored research dilemmas faced by emerging researchers in teachers’ colleges in publishing research. In extant literature, not much attention has been paid to dilemmas facing emerging researchers in teachers’ colleges, particularly in Zimbabwe. This study was framed within the lens of the Integrated Theoretical Model of Research Productivity w…
But We Do Not Know Anything, We Were Born in This Predicament
In this article, we discuss the experiences of learners who face xenophobia in South Africa. While extensive research has been conducted on xenophobia, few studies have specifically examined its impact on school-going children, whose presence at school is not by design in South Africa. We explore their lived experiences within the curriculum, thus exposing various trajectories that hinder effective teaching and learning. To theorise our findings,…
In the wake of canada’s violent eugenic legacies
Eugenics is often misunderstood as a historical set of practices that mobilized outside of Canada and ended after World War II. Less is known about canada’s influence on and participation in the practices/ideologies/movement, and even less about how contemporary fitness practices continue to be tethered to eugenics. ReVisioning Fitness aims to counter/refuse eugenic-infused fitness regimes designed to eliminate ‘unfit’ people, by centring the liv…
Suppression of a salient distractor protects the processing of target features
Using ecumenical experiences to respond to new public life challenges
The description of the history of the church in Zimbabwe highlights the presence of a visibly united church that has been actively involved in supporting public life since the colonial era. The division within the Christian community is not a recent phenomenon but has existed throughout colonial history. The Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) serves as an umbrella organisation that aims at re-uniting Christian efforts of Catholic, …
The dynamics of empowering women in the post-missionary Church of Christ in Zimbabwe
The evolution of the Ladies’ Circle into the Mother’s Union in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) holds great significance in that circles in Africa symbolize collectiveness and consensual decision-making. The Ladies’ Circle emerged as a response by white women influenced by the Victorian Womanhood Cult with regard to the discontent they felt with patriarchy in the church. Black women supported white female missionaries in leadership roles, …
Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-PFism in Zimbabwe
Implementing Internal Quality Assurance Systems in the In-Service Teacher Education Programmes in Zimbabwean Universities
The emerging discourses in the Zimbabwean teacher education system have been on the capacity of in–service teachers to be transformative through their preparation at university. The call, then, has been on universities to improve their quality assurance and its effective implementation for quality programmes and learning outcomes. There have been growing indications and expectations that university in–service teacher graduates should lead in tran…
Integrating Storytelling and Inquiry-Based Approach as Pedagogies of Developing Scientific Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms
Early childhood education (ECD) provides a foundation for a child’s cognitive and social development. In this context, nurturing scientific skills from an early age is crucial for fostering curiosity, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. This theoretical paper explored the potential of integrating storytelling and inquiry-based approaches as effective pedagogies for developing scientific skills in early childhood classrooms. Storyt…
Re-Envisioning Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with Data Analytics and a Borderless Curriculum in a Troubled World
In an era marked by increasing geopolitical strife and societal challenges, the imperative role of education in bridging divides and fostering understanding is unparalleled. This special issue aims to delve into the transformative potential of integrating data analytics within the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and in crafting a curriculum that transcends borders. Such an endeavour is crucial in effectively navigating and positively…
Robert’s Rules of Order’ on religious conflicts in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe
Church conflicts arise due to poor ethics, hermeneutics or doctrine. Unending conflicts may be historical and conflict resolution may not have been done. This article identifies fissures in the history of conflict in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ). It proposes to use ‘Robert’s Rules of Order’ (RONR) to redirect deliberants’ energies towards comprehensive solutions (Robert 2020). This can eradicate collegial competition, litigious animosi…
A decolonial reading of the history curriculum
This study undertakes a decolonial reading of the Zimbabwean history curriculum as an exemplar of how knowledge and pedagogy could be reframed as the basis for curricular justice in a global imaginary that is predicated on the epistemic hegemony of the Global North. The study which is framed as a conceptual research article introduces and argues for undoing historicide as a heuristic within the broader scope of the epistemic decolonial turn. The …
Violence and Corruption of Megachurch Leaders
This theoretical article argues that megachurches are an inadequately problematised factor in the Zimbabwean crisis and uses, as examples of violent and corrupt megachurch leaders, Emmanuel Makandiwa, Uebert Angel, and Passion Java. As Zimbabwe moves towards elections in 2023, ZANU-PF has resorted to using megachurches to enact propaganda, create voter empathy, and stir up violence, dividing the religious electorate along party lines in the proce…
Retrospective and Prospective Approaches to Christian Education in Church of Christ Schools in Zimbabwe
This article explores the past, present, and future of Christian education (CE) in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) schools under the Dadaya, Mashoko, and Chidamoyo clusters. It highlights the retrospective and prospective aspects of CE within the church by emphasizing the adaptability, collaboration, and utilization of contemporary tools and resources to effectively carry out the mission of CE in Zimbabwean schools. It acknowledges the st…
Bricolising Retired Teachers in South Africa
This paper interrogates the challenges and opportunities related to re-engaging retired teachers in mainstream curriculum practice in South Africa. Some rural schools report poor performance, whereas retired teachers in their locality could help to mitigate this challenge. The paper used bricolage as a theoretical lens, because of its emphasis on using available resources to address ambivalence. The qualitative paper responds to two questions: Wh…
Perceptual distraction causes visual memory encoding intrusions
The legacy of Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd in Zimbabwean public life history
This article investigates the contribution of white liberal politics of an ex-missionary New Zealander, Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd (from 1953 to 1958), on the development of Southern Rhodesia towards becoming an independent state. It outlines the contribution he made towards the progress of black Zimbabweans in a number of spheres. It arouses interest in contemporary Zimbabwean religious and political discourses. Todd held a hybridity of …
Religious leaders as regime enablers
This article interrogates family and religious studies in the context of religious leaders who serve as regime enablers and resistors in Zimbabwe. Some religious leaders have overtly or covertly assumed the role of enablers of the current Zimbabwean political matrix, thereby threatening democracy, social justice, and accountability, by using religious narratives to buttress the status quo. I use critical emancipation research as lens to interroga…
To Hell with Bishops
The article addresses the responses of the government of Zimbabwe and its proxies to a letter issued by Catholic bishops on 14 August 2020, entitled 'The march is not ended'. The response to the letter presents an ambivalent view of the nexus of the state, law and religion in Zimbabwe, which needs to be teased out and challenged in order to reinvent a democratic nation. This theoretical article taps into decoloniality theory to problematise state…
Can religion (un)zombify? The trajectories of psychic capture theology in postcolonial South Africa
‘Police arrested suspected criminals in a satanic place masquerading as a church ... There is no church there, but there is Satanism ... Those people are not praying for anything, but they have hypnotised abantu [ people ]’. Informed by a decoloniality lens in relation to motifs such as coloniality of power and knowledge and being, I argue that mafiarised religions in South Africa thrive through psychic capture theology. Some emerging religious m…
Rethinking the Seven Angels Ministry’s praxis of pneumatology as seen through the lens of decoloniality
Informed by decoloniality motifs such as coloniality of being, knowledge and power, this chapter seeks to problematise the praxis of pneumatology as seen in some emerging ministries. This approach is relevant in this study because the praxis of religion is constantly being accused of being a harbinger of social injustice, oppression, mafia-like practices and criminality. The chapter is underpinned by decoloniality theory whose agenda in this fiel…
Postcolonial religious hope as stratagem to achieve political enslavement in Zimbabwe
In this article, the author has shown how postcolonial religious praxis has contributed to political oppression in Zimbabwe. This is done by analysing prophetic messages of hope in the face of economic trajectories and argued that prophetic discourses have, covertly and overtly, become a stratagem for political oppression. To this end, religious leaders play a leading role in the zombification of people to accept oppression and marginalisation, t…
Regime enablers and captured religious mandate in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s second republic, born after the fall of Robert Mugabe on 17 November 2017, has been characterised by many controversies. Some of the most important of these include claims that human rights, accountability and democracy are being disregarded, and religious leaders are acting as regime enablers to maintain injustice. This article problematises the role of Nehemiah Mutendi and Andrew Wutawunashe, the harbingers of the second republic. I …
Conundrum of religious mafia and legislation in South Africa
In this theoretical article, I analyse the hearing of the Seven Angels Ministry before the Commission for Religious and Linguistic Rights, and subsequent events that led to the killing of police and army officers at the Ngcobo Police Station. Informed by critical emancipatory research theory, I unpack the emerging nexus of the state, gender, legislation, religious freedom and human rights in the context of religious mafia. I answer two questions …
To Hell with Bishops
The article addresses the responses of the government of Zimbabwe and its proxies to a letter issued by Catholic bishops on 14 August 2020, entitled 'The march is not ended'. The response to the letter presents an ambivalent view of the nexus of the state, law and religion in Zimbabwe, which needs to be teased out and challenged in order to reinvent a democratic nation. This theoretical article taps into decoloniality theory to problematise state…
Engaging critical emancipatory research as an alternative to mitigate school violence in South Africa
In this theoretical paper, we contribute to ongoing narratives that attempt to mitigate and curb school violence. We do this by critiquing school relations through the lens of critical emancipatory research. Critical emancipatory research has the impetus to map skewed relations that exacerbate school violence in South African schools. In order to achieve our aim, we highlight various principles of critical emancipatory research that position the …
Robert’s Rules of Order’ on religious conflicts in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe
Church conflicts arise due to poor ethics, hermeneutics or doctrine. Unending conflicts may be historical and conflict resolution may not have been done. This article identifies fissures in the history of conflict in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ). It proposes to use ‘Robert’s Rules of Order’ (RONR) to redirect deliberants’ energies towards comprehensive solutions (Robert 2020). This can eradicate collegial competition, litigious animosi…
Violence and Corruption of Megachurch Leaders
This theoretical article argues that megachurches are an inadequately problematised factor in the Zimbabwean crisis and uses, as examples of violent and corrupt megachurch leaders, Emmanuel Makandiwa, Uebert Angel, and Passion Java. As Zimbabwe moves towards elections in 2023, ZANU-PF has resorted to using megachurches to enact propaganda, create voter empathy, and stir up violence, dividing the religious electorate along party lines in the proce…
Retrospective and Prospective Approaches to Christian Education in Church of Christ Schools in Zimbabwe
This article explores the past, present, and future of Christian education (CE) in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) schools under the Dadaya, Mashoko, and Chidamoyo clusters. It highlights the retrospective and prospective aspects of CE within the church by emphasizing the adaptability, collaboration, and utilization of contemporary tools and resources to effectively carry out the mission of CE in Zimbabwean schools. It acknowledges the st…
Postcolonial religious hope as stratagem to achieve political enslavement in Zimbabwe
In this article, the author has shown how postcolonial religious praxis has contributed to political oppression in Zimbabwe. This is done by analysing prophetic messages of hope in the face of economic trajectories and argued that prophetic discourses have, covertly and overtly, become a stratagem for political oppression. To this end, religious leaders play a leading role in the zombification of people to accept oppression and marginalisation, t…
Go and Prophesy in Your Own Land
Informed by a decoloniality lens and referencing motifs such as coloniality of power, knowledge, and being, this theoretical article analyses and problematises conflict, and reconstructs the experience of foreign and local prophets in South Africa. There is growing tension between foreign pastors and local pastors, with the former seemingly being popular because of performing 'miracles,' huge followings, and, in some cases, through mafia tendenci…
Engaging critical emancipatory research as an alternative to mitigate school violence in South Africa
In this theoretical paper, we contribute to ongoing narratives that attempt to mitigate and curb school violence. We do this by critiquing school relations through the lens of critical emancipatory research. Critical emancipatory research has the impetus to map skewed relations that exacerbate school violence in South African schools. In order to achieve our aim, we highlight various principles of critical emancipatory research that position the …
Conundrum of religious mafia and legislation in South Africa
In this theoretical article, I analyse the hearing of the Seven Angels Ministry before the Commission for Religious and Linguistic Rights, and subsequent events that led to the killing of police and army officers at the Ngcobo Police Station. Informed by critical emancipatory research theory, I unpack the emerging nexus of the state, gender, legislation, religious freedom and human rights in the context of religious mafia. I answer two questions …
Is Gabola a Decolonial Church or Another Trajectory of Freedom of Religion in Post-Colonial South Africa? Rethinking Ethical Issues in Religious Praxis
In this paper, I interrogated the Gabola church in terms of its origins, purpose and its distinctiveness as a postcolonial manifestation of freedom of religion in South Africa. I answered two questions, is Gabola church a representation of a decolonial church and could it be a manifestation of trajectories of the postcolonial ill-defined freedom of religion? In responding to these questions, I used decoloniality, a theory whose agenda among many …
Can religion (un)zombify? The trajectories of psychic capture theology in postcolonial South Africa
‘Police arrested suspected criminals in a satanic place masquerading as a church ... There is no church there, but there is Satanism ... Those people are not praying for anything, but they have hypnotised abantu [ people ]’. Informed by a decoloniality lens in relation to motifs such as coloniality of power and knowledge and being, I argue that mafiarised religions in South Africa thrive through psychic capture theology. Some emerging religious m…
Rethinking the Seven Angels Ministry’s praxis of pneumatology as seen through the lens of decoloniality
Informed by decoloniality motifs such as coloniality of being, knowledge and power, this chapter seeks to problematise the praxis of pneumatology as seen in some emerging ministries. This approach is relevant in this study because the praxis of religion is constantly being accused of being a harbinger of social injustice, oppression, mafia-like practices and criminality. The chapter is underpinned by decoloniality theory whose agenda in this fiel…
Postcolonial religious hope as stratagem to achieve political enslavement in Zimbabwe
In this article, the author has shown how postcolonial religious praxis has contributed to political oppression in Zimbabwe. This is done by analysing prophetic messages of hope in the face of economic trajectories and argued that prophetic discourses have, covertly and overtly, become a stratagem for political oppression. To this end, religious leaders play a leading role in the zombification of people to accept oppression and marginalisation, t…
Regime enablers and captured religious mandate in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s second republic, born after the fall of Robert Mugabe on 17 November 2017, has been characterised by many controversies. Some of the most important of these include claims that human rights, accountability and democracy are being disregarded, and religious leaders are acting as regime enablers to maintain injustice. This article problematises the role of Nehemiah Mutendi and Andrew Wutawunashe, the harbingers of the second republic. I …
Ujamaa and Global Education using a Border Thinking Approach
The researcher navigates the concept of Ujamaa and globality, as possible sites for the construction of a sustainable future for rural Afromontane people. It critiques the cultural mentality that retreats to a fundamentalist approach to life and, thereby, often derails progressive efforts to improve human conditions. A hybrid space is needed, where various cultural orientations can merge to reconfigure a better future for rural Afromontane people…
Revisiting mixture models of memory
Go and Prophesy in Your Own Land
Informed by a decoloniality lens and referencing motifs such as coloniality of power, knowledge, and being, this theoretical article analyses and problematises conflict, and reconstructs the experience of foreign and local prophets in South Africa. There is growing tension between foreign pastors and local pastors, with the former seemingly being popular because of performing 'miracles,' huge followings, and, in some cases, through mafia tendenci…
Bricolising Retired Teachers in South Africa
This paper interrogates the challenges and opportunities related to re-engaging retired teachers in mainstream curriculum practice in South Africa. Some rural schools report poor performance, whereas retired teachers in their locality could help to mitigate this challenge. The paper used bricolage as a theoretical lens, because of its emphasis on using available resources to address ambivalence. The qualitative paper responds to two questions: Wh…
Perceptual distraction causes visual memory encoding intrusions
The legacy of Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd in Zimbabwean public life history
This article investigates the contribution of white liberal politics of an ex-missionary New Zealander, Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd (from 1953 to 1958), on the development of Southern Rhodesia towards becoming an independent state. It outlines the contribution he made towards the progress of black Zimbabweans in a number of spheres. It arouses interest in contemporary Zimbabwean religious and political discourses. Todd held a hybridity of …
Religious leaders as regime enablers
This article interrogates family and religious studies in the context of religious leaders who serve as regime enablers and resistors in Zimbabwe. Some religious leaders have overtly or covertly assumed the role of enablers of the current Zimbabwean political matrix, thereby threatening democracy, social justice, and accountability, by using religious narratives to buttress the status quo. I use critical emancipation research as lens to interroga…
To Hell with Bishops
The article addresses the responses of the government of Zimbabwe and its proxies to a letter issued by Catholic bishops on 14 August 2020, entitled 'The march is not ended'. The response to the letter presents an ambivalent view of the nexus of the state, law and religion in Zimbabwe, which needs to be teased out and challenged in order to reinvent a democratic nation. This theoretical article taps into decoloniality theory to problematise state…
Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-PFism in Zimbabwe
Implementing Internal Quality Assurance Systems in the In-Service Teacher Education Programmes in Zimbabwean Universities
The emerging discourses in the Zimbabwean teacher education system have been on the capacity of in–service teachers to be transformative through their preparation at university. The call, then, has been on universities to improve their quality assurance and its effective implementation for quality programmes and learning outcomes. There have been growing indications and expectations that university in–service teacher graduates should lead in tran…
Integrating Storytelling and Inquiry-Based Approach as Pedagogies of Developing Scientific Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms
Early childhood education (ECD) provides a foundation for a child’s cognitive and social development. In this context, nurturing scientific skills from an early age is crucial for fostering curiosity, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. This theoretical paper explored the potential of integrating storytelling and inquiry-based approaches as effective pedagogies for developing scientific skills in early childhood classrooms. Storyt…
Re-Envisioning Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with Data Analytics and a Borderless Curriculum in a Troubled World
In an era marked by increasing geopolitical strife and societal challenges, the imperative role of education in bridging divides and fostering understanding is unparalleled. This special issue aims to delve into the transformative potential of integrating data analytics within the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and in crafting a curriculum that transcends borders. Such an endeavour is crucial in effectively navigating and positively…
Robert’s Rules of Order’ on religious conflicts in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe
Church conflicts arise due to poor ethics, hermeneutics or doctrine. Unending conflicts may be historical and conflict resolution may not have been done. This article identifies fissures in the history of conflict in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ). It proposes to use ‘Robert’s Rules of Order’ (RONR) to redirect deliberants’ energies towards comprehensive solutions (Robert 2020). This can eradicate collegial competition, litigious animosi…
A decolonial reading of the history curriculum
This study undertakes a decolonial reading of the Zimbabwean history curriculum as an exemplar of how knowledge and pedagogy could be reframed as the basis for curricular justice in a global imaginary that is predicated on the epistemic hegemony of the Global North. The study which is framed as a conceptual research article introduces and argues for undoing historicide as a heuristic within the broader scope of the epistemic decolonial turn. The …
Violence and Corruption of Megachurch Leaders
This theoretical article argues that megachurches are an inadequately problematised factor in the Zimbabwean crisis and uses, as examples of violent and corrupt megachurch leaders, Emmanuel Makandiwa, Uebert Angel, and Passion Java. As Zimbabwe moves towards elections in 2023, ZANU-PF has resorted to using megachurches to enact propaganda, create voter empathy, and stir up violence, dividing the religious electorate along party lines in the proce…
Retrospective and Prospective Approaches to Christian Education in Church of Christ Schools in Zimbabwe
This article explores the past, present, and future of Christian education (CE) in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) schools under the Dadaya, Mashoko, and Chidamoyo clusters. It highlights the retrospective and prospective aspects of CE within the church by emphasizing the adaptability, collaboration, and utilization of contemporary tools and resources to effectively carry out the mission of CE in Zimbabwean schools. It acknowledges the st…
Esoteric Rumination
The ‘publish or perish’ mantra has long defined university culture worldwide. This research paper thus explored research dilemmas faced by emerging researchers in teachers’ colleges in publishing research. In extant literature, not much attention has been paid to dilemmas facing emerging researchers in teachers’ colleges, particularly in Zimbabwe. This study was framed within the lens of the Integrated Theoretical Model of Research Productivity w…
But We Do Not Know Anything, We Were Born in This Predicament
In this article, we discuss the experiences of learners who face xenophobia in South Africa. While extensive research has been conducted on xenophobia, few studies have specifically examined its impact on school-going children, whose presence at school is not by design in South Africa. We explore their lived experiences within the curriculum, thus exposing various trajectories that hinder effective teaching and learning. To theorise our findings,…
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