This story originally appeared in The Patriot issue of February 15 2018
VALENTINE’S DAY was celebrated on Wednesday this week, with many getting beautiful gifts from their loved ones.
If it wasn’t the candlelit dinner, it could have been a beautiful dress, a card, a teddy...
By Vitalis Ruvando
A HAPPY belated Christmas-New Year to you!
This belated Christmas-New Year message unveils Afro-rural folk’s Valentine promises regarding their heroic bid for legislation of main hallmarks in Afro-humanness and Afro-identity – abridged as hunhu/ubuntu.
The secreted Valentine promises are deduced from innovative research narratives...
WE, in the village, have a lot of faith in our children. We never stop believing that they will continue our work long after we are gone.
As a result, we place value in education just like anyone else.
One of the sectors that the Second...
THERE is no child who is not endowed with sufficient intellectual capacities to manage the basics of life — which is what the first seven years of schooling are about. ccca
To boot, this has been increased from seven to nine years, including ECD A and...
By Kundai Marunya
AN old AVM bus roars from a busy Mbare Musika, blaring a throaty horn as it announces its departure.
It squeezes through the tight loading bays, stops every now and again to avoid hoardes of people flocking the terminus in a last-minute rush...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
THE world has lost 85 percent of its wetlands since the 18th Century and they are disappearing three times faster than forests.
Furthermore, in just 50 years, since 1970, about 30 percent of the world’s wetlands have been lost.
The World Wetlands Day is...
By Shephard Majengeta
IN all cases and acts deployed to solve human problems, human beings must deliberately act to bring about the desired change.
And time has shown that innovation, knowledge and science are not the preserve of Western societies.
Notorious for their refusal to acknowledge African...
TWO critical issues set to determine the future of Zimbabwe and the UK’s fractured relations bring to the fore the latter’s reckless policy on Harare.
The UK has, in recent times, been unsuccessfully trying to strike a balance between maintaining its hostility towards Zimbabwe and,...
By Takasununguka Ziki
THE grandeur of Meikles Hotel in Harare, a five-star establishment renowned for its regal ambiance, stands as testament to the incredible journey of the Meikles family and their involvement in the Rhodesia Loot Committee of 1894.
This committee, established by the British South...
IN 2016, there was a curriculum review.
One scholar, Dr Augustine Tirivangana, is on record saying: “When the curriculum was reviewed in 2016, we made it very clear that there was no room for European history in our schools, not the classical history of Mussolini,...
The story of Garikai Chiwanza (not real name)
IT was around 9am on April 14 1977 when the assembly bell rang.
I was 14 years old and in Grade 7 at Cheza Primary School in Domboshava.
I left the classroom and rushed to the assembly point and,...
LIKE settlements in the New World, the founding economy of the colonial State in south-central Africa built a white settler-economy on the backs of the indigenes.
Contrary to settlers in the New World, the early settlement years of Zimbabwe (during the colonial era that began...