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...
WE are now at the mid-year mark, a good a time as any to take stock.
And we take stock not only cognisant of developments that have happened but knowing that we go for another poll, like we have always done when its time, unfailingly...
OPPOSITION quarters, bent on regime change, are deliberately misleading the public by claiming that the recently passed Patriotic Bill is meant to stifle the democratic space and frighten people from criticising the Government.
They go further with their ridiculous argument by asserting the passing of...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
BEFORE Zimbabwe scrapped the IMF-prescribed Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), some of the most original features I wrote for my ‘African Focus’ column in The Sunday Mail dealt with glaring differences between ESAP and the economic, political and social reforms which...
SO the die is cast!
August 23 2023 is Zimbabwe’s date with destiny as all registered voters will put pen to paper, electing the country’s President, House of Assembly members and Councillors.
However, as we go to the polls, lest we forget.
Let us have the liberation...
ZIMBABWEANS go for their harmonised general elections on Wednesday, August 23 2023 as confirmed by Statutory Instrument 85, Proclamation 4 of 2023, published in the latest Government Gazette.
We hope the proclamation will put to bed weird stories, ostensibly meant to discredit the polls.
We expect...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
I REVIEWED, from the perspective of dariro philosophy (hunhu), more than five responses to the on-going controversy in the Western world over ChatGPT, one of several large language models (LLMs) of so-called artificial intelligence (AI) for which promoters and marketers claim intelligence, competence...
THE West’s regime change agenda in Zimbabwe is spreading to other countries in Africa.
This is no paranoia, but a fact.
Zimbabwe is suffering from a marauding West hell-bent on effecting regime change.
Africa is suffering from the menace of pliant regimes.
Which way Africa, is the...
THERE are some unscrupulous businesspeople in the country who are trying to force the Government to re-dollarise by rejecting the local currency component in the multi-currency basket.
But to the best of our knowledge, the Zim dollar remains legal tender.
Alternatively, these businesspeople are conniving with...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
IN her book Sex and Destiny, sociologist Germaine Greer pointed out that, especially in the age of consumerist obsolescence, capitalism detests efficiency.
This explained the growing capitalist hostility, first against the multi-generational family and later even against the stable nuclear family.
The fragmentation...
THE sitting President of Mozambique and leader of FRELIMO is Filipe Nyusi and his historic State visit to Zimbabwe shows the excellent relations enjoyed by both countries before and after independence.
We at The Patriot have always said that historically the people of Zimbabwe and...
The recent lie by US Ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government had supplied weapons and ammunition to Russia, to help it in its war against Ukraine, is yet another example of how the West is trying to destabilise Southern...
