ZIMBABWE Football Association (ZIFA) should shoulder the blame for the embarrassing reception accorded the Warriors coach at the Oliver Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, on Monday and the subsequent consequences.
Zdravko Logarusic was barred from entering South Africa for the COSAFA Cup because he didn’t have...
WE always write and talk about how, as a people, we must strive to preserve our hunhu/ubuntu.
Indeed, one way of doing so is by ensuring that we don’t lose our identity as a people because, sadly, we are slowly losing it.
Let us always remember...
AS more areas turned into COVID-19 hotspots and the number of the pandemic casualties kept on soaring, it became evident that a comprehensive countrywide lockdown, as declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday, June 29, would become inevitable.
This followed intensified lockdown measures which barred...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
THE colonial scene during my early childhood was characterised by the absence of role models of African national political leadership and the proliferation of African stooges and collaborators with settlerism and imperialism.
Moise Tshombe, of what is now the DRC, was viewed...
WE recently laid to rest our famous cleric and national hero, Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro, at the National Heroes’ Acre in Harare.
May his soul rest in peace!
There is, however, something unforgettable about Fr Ribeiro.
He prioritised use of local languages and tried his best to...
THE passing on, last week, of former Zambian President Kenneth David Kaunda and Roman Catholic cleric Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro, served as a reminder of the sacrifices made during the liberation war and dedication to that cause, thereafter.
Both died on Thursday June 17 2021.
The...
THIS week we revisit the issue of land and why it is fundamental to all Zimbabweans.
Land is our life.
We live on the land and attach sentimental value to it.
Land is the cause of many battles worldwide and is the anchor of many economic success...
IT is high time the European Union (EU), Britain and the US come to terms with the prevailing reality and forget about their dashed dream of lording it over their colonial subjects forever and a day.
We would like to remind them once more that...
THIS week we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the birth of The Patriot newspaper.
In retrospect, we would like to be judged to what extent we have achieved our objective of making us all ‘celebrate being Zimbabweans’.
This was from the premise that colonialists had characteristically...
WARS are always traumatic and evoke painful memories, but we always need to heal these traumas.
One of the ways to deal with this trauma is to fulfill the promises survivors of the war made to fallen comrades.
Among the fallen are our founding fathers and...
THE recent extension of the localised Kwekwe COVID-19 lockdown should be a rude awakening to those who have tended to relax on the assumption that the pandemic menace is on its way out.
It is not
On the contrary, according to statistics, it could be on...
The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912
By Thomas Pakenham
Published by Phoenix Press (2001)
ISBN: 1 84212488 X
AFRICANS resisted colonialism in different ways when imperialists decided to slice and share the cake (Africa) in the guise of spreading Christianity and civilisation.
In some African States, active resistance was a...
