THE initial choice of Chipadze Stadium in Bindura as the venue of the intended star launch rally for the CCC last Sunday appears to have been a deliberate ploy by the opposition party to play the blame game.
This was supposed to be a very...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
ON July 8 2023, independent pan-Africanist intellectual Chacha Gicheni told me of the persistence or resurgence of collective African habits of the dariro in the treatment of film and television in East Africa.
The first African petty middle class to acquire television...
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, last week.
That was the venue for the second ZANU PF star rally ahead of the August 23 general elections.
The Patriot was there.
The previous rally was held in Chipinge at Mutema Secondary School...
THE choice of venues for the two opening star rallies, addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in ZANU PF’s election campaigns, demonstrates adherence of the revolutionary Party to the generational principles that have evolved to shape our national ethos.
Because our struggle as a nation is...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
THERE will be no shortage of mission statements and star-gazing visions during the on-going election campaign.
Therefore, this is the time for those whose work involves real long-term strategic thinking to ponder the issue of vision/mission versus securing a sustainable national...
The Patriot was at Mutema Secondary School in Chipinge to witness the 2023 ZANU PF elections campaign launch.
Indeed, we are now in the election season.
Some have said the launch was oversubscribed.
Others said it was the mother of all gatherings. Locals on the other...
THE profile of a dictator CCC leader Nelson Chamisa appears to be aspiring to put up; is likely to come back to haunt him, despite the apparent initial success.
CCC has many shortcomings, when compared with other political parties.
What makes it weird is that although...
AS a people, as Zimbabweans, we should, time and again, pause and reflect on some of our own weaknesses which are often taken advantage of by our enemies.
For instance, the belief which most of us have that everything Western is better than anything African...
WHEN CCC leader Nelson Chamisa last week declared that he would never return land back to whites and would instead give title deeds to current occupiers, Zimbabweans must have wondered at the apparent metamorphosis undergone by the American-backed party.
He was addressing a political rally...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
MY February 7 2020 instalment for this column was titled: ‘How history informs and frames the Zimbabwean meaning of reform’.
I assumed that my obligation then was just to illustrate how the changes our country was trying to make in the new...
WE are heading for the much anticipated general elections in the month of our heroes and heroines, August.
In that regard, let us all remember that there are forces out there that want to reverse the gains of our liberation struggle.
They want to bring back...
WITH the campaigns of the August 23 polls gathering pace, the main contesting parties must brace themselves for the voters’ response to what they have observed and experienced vis-a-vis their performances over the past four or so years.
That ZANU PF runs the national Government...
