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    Compatibility Of Ubuntu and Leadership In Three Teachers’ Colleges In Masvingo Province:
    (Great Zimbabwe University, 2020-02) Gwede Sonile
    This study focused on the compatibility of Ubuntu and leadership in three teachers’ colleges in Masvingo Province. The study was motivated by axiological dysfunctions of leadership in teachers’ colleges, which is assumed to be guided by Ubuntu. The Nziramasanga Commission of 1999 provides the terms of reference on the status of Ubuntu in institutions of higher learning. The study employed the qualitative approach which implies that purposive sampling was used to select thirty participants who were drawn from lecturers and students at the colleges under study. Purposive sampling enabled the researcher to select information-rich participants. The data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions, document analysis and observations. To ensure that the findings were plausible, issues of trustworthiness such as credibility, confirmability, transferability and dependability were addressed. Furthermore, there was triangulation of participants’ views and of data collecting instruments. The study revealed that Ubuntu was regarded highly in Zimbabwe. Ubuntu was shown as indispensable in leadership operations. Nonetheless, the study showed that conceptualization of Ubuntu was blurred in teachers’ colleges. It also emerged that policies that govern college leadership operations were not compatible with Ubuntu. Due to compatibility challenges of Ubuntu and leadership, students faced both social and academic problems which affected their performance. There was rampant plagiarism, which compromised the integrity of teachers colleges. The study concluded that the colleges could fully realise their mandate of developing teachers if Ubuntu in its entirety was incorporated in leadership operations. The study recommended that government takes robust measures to align leadership operations in teachers college to Ubuntu.