Monthly Archives: February, 2024

Baby Mouse and Baby Snake

BABY MOUSE went out into the field to play. She met Baby Snake. They became friends. They spent all day playing games. At sundown they broke company and went to their respective homes. In the Mouse household Mrs Mouse asked her daughter how she had spent her day and...

Colonial injustices: The time for reparations is now

AS previously colonised nations continue to call for closure and justice for crimes against humanity that were committed by their erstwhile colonisers, the question that begs is: Are ‘apologies’ enough?  Zimbabwe has been subjected to heinous post-colonial trauma by its former coloniser, Britain, which has...

Black South Africans must learn to appreciate

EDITOR — BLACK South Africans, you may complain about the ANC, but the fact...

Geingob and the land question

THE death of Namibian President Hage Geingob on February 4 was a devastating loss...

African special ownership operations: Part 7 … the weaponisation of multiplicities

By Professor Artwell Nhemachena INSTEAD of counting how many resources or how much land has...

Why celebrate Valentine’s Day?

This story originally appeared in The Patriot issue of February 15 2018 VALENTINE’S DAY was...

Rural community ethos for development: Part One … Afro-rural folk eye hunhu/ubuntu referendum, legislation, renaissance

By Vitalis Ruvando A HAPPY belated Christmas-New Year to you! This belated Christmas-New Year message unveils...

Zimbabwe’s economy grew faster than SA’s over past 30 years

By Rutendo Matinyarare ACCORDING to the World Bank, Zimbabwe’s black-controlled and owned economy grew faster...

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE Patriot of February 2-8 2024 featured an article by Golden Guvamatanga...

Education 5.0 is fast transforming Zim

WE, in the village, have a lot of faith in our children. We never...

Secret behind Sulu’s dendera success story

By Fidelis Manyange A NUMBER of departed yesteryear music greats have bequeathed their legacy to...

Gaza is under siege . . . as world commemorates International Day for Prevention of Violent Extremism

THE UN General Assembly (UNGA), which is the main deliberative, policy making and representative...

Veritas torches racism storm

Golden Guvamatanga and Elizabeth Sitotombe A DAMAGING racism scandal has hit pro-opposition entity, Veritas, amid...

African Catholics rebuff Pope on homosexuality

By Kundai Marunya A WAR against nature is brewing in the West. Through popular (pop) culture,...

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Baby Mouse and Baby Snake

BABY MOUSE went out into the field to play. She met Baby Snake. They became friends. They...

Colonial injustices: The time for reparations is now

AS previously colonised nations continue to call for closure and justice for crimes against...

Reparations: Justice delayed is justice denied . . . bygones cannot be bygones

By Elizabeth Sitotombe FOR centuries, Africa has borne the brunt of European colonial brutality.  The story,...

Reparations — Part 2 …damned if you do and damned if you don’t

AFRICAN scholarship has ignored to study the history that leaves no illusion as to...
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