Daily Archives: Jun 10, 2022

Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death of sungura legend Leonard Dembo.  He died in 1996.  Dembo’s real name was Leonard Tazvivinga as opposed to Kwangwari Gwaindepi as is widely reported.  In fact, Kwangwari Gwaindepi was his grandfather and that...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the US, was asked by one African- American woman from Harlem what plans he had for a free South Africa since all newly independent African countries never seemed to have the...

Windfall for campfire communities

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA CHRISTMAS has certainly come early for Zimbabwe’s hunting communities that...

Diaspora vote and CITES sanctions conundrum

ZIMBABWEANS with long memories would have probably felt belittled once again by reports that...

Always safeguard Zimbabwe

WE at The Patriot have always said our goal is to tell the Zimbabwean...

NGOs at it again

THE unimpressive showing by CCC in the March 26 2022 by-elections has seen the...

Of mupfuhwira and public opinion

EDITOR — I WAS recently disheartened to see a mob bullying a couple that...

Leaving no-one behind

By Tawanda Chenana THE feeling that stalks you, on a daily basis, in the rural...

Patriotic front formations: Part 18…the Chitepo solution was confrontational

OF the whole patriotic front formations cast, the one actor with the clearest and...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 21…the Venetian money changers

ITALIAN cities became the major money centres for 13th and 14th Century Europe.  Those established family firms...

Ignorance of Genesis 1: Vs 26 our downfall

By Nthungo Ya Afrika SAVIS, to those who have not read my articles before, means...

Black skin, white masks: Part Two

WITH most summer crops ripe, harvesting is underway, with emphasis on the storage of...

Black skin, white masks: Part Two

‘BABA namai musandicheme  Kana ndafa nehondo....’goes the refrain of one Chimurenga song sang by combatants...

Life of agric extension service in Zim: Part One…birth of agric extension services

AGRICULTURAL extension services play an important role in agriculture.  In Zimbabwe, the agricultural extension service was initially...

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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...

What is ‘truth’?: Part Three . . . can there still be salvation for Africans 

By Nthungo YaAfrika  TRUTH takes no prisoners.  Truth is bitter and undemocratic.  Truth has no feelings, is...