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By Tawanda Chenana WE, in the village, believe in not just taking responsibility for everything we do but also ensuring that we are of service to one another. We are almost to the half-mark of the year and reports for various entities of how the first...

Happy with progress at Manhize

EDITOR — WE are very happy to learn that the Dinson Iron and Steel Company (DISCO) is now 50 percent complete. Indeed the US$1,5 billion steel plant is going to be a game-changer and will give our economy a massive boost.  It is also very...

Democracy of the missionary position cannot be Zimbabwean

By Prof Artwell Nhemachena   WHAT I call democracy of the missionary position is a kind of democracy that thrives on Western evangelism, call it secular evangelism if you want.  But even the old missionaries were secular in the sense of serving imperialism rather than serving God. Of...

Similarities between Ancient Israel, Malawi, Zim, Africa and China

By Nthungo YaAfrika MY articles in The Patriot of April 14-20 2023 and April 28-May 4 2023 titled ‘Blacks civilised the East and West and Of Wise Nahasian’... stories that can liberate our race,’ were seen by many as wishful thinking.  This does not surprise me...

Partnerships to colonise Africans ….the dark side of international partnerships

By Prof Artwell Nhemachena  MEN collaborated and partnered in pulling the wagons of the colonial Pioneer Column of the 1890s into Zimbabwe.  Did they realise the coloniality of such partnerships and collaborations? The 21st Century is awash with calls for international partnerships and collaborations but the world...

Another boost for food self-sufficiency …takatonanganisa

By Tawanda Chenana WE, in the village, all year round, interact with the land, getting all we want from it. The winter cropping season is upon us and presents us with another opportunity to bolster food self-sufficiency. The Second Republic has significantly boosted farmers’ potential to utilise...

Cholera outbreak hits Harare

EDITOR —HARARE CITY Health Director Prosper Chonzi has confirmed a cholera outbreak in the capital, with 21 suspected cases recorded.  And rightly, residents should be on high alert lest we have a pandemic on our hands. Cholera, if we are not careful, can spread rapidly....

Favour in context: Part Two …ancestral spirits vis-a-vis Christianity

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in those mountains; power to unlock God’s favour. They stopped to rest among a scattering of boulders apparently also resting on the steep slope. The pastor talked about favour and then led the...

Of ignorance and orphaned minds

By Nthungo YaAfrika  I WILL start this week’s article by a quote from the book ‘ReAfrikanization and the Reality of War’ by Kwame Agyei and Akua Nson Akoto of the Sankofa Movement: ‘‘The mind has strong drive to connect and reconnect itself over a period of...

Rhodies left me half-dead in Chihota

The story of Joseph Gwatidzo I WILL ever live to remember March 16 1978.  I was beaten and left for dead by a native African soldier of the Rhodesian African Rifles regiment at my grandparent’s farm in Muda African Purchase Area, Chihota.  I was 12.  I was in...

‘Know your heroes and enemies’

By Prof Artwell Nhemachena WHEN one does not know one’s enemies, one risks fighting one’s heroes.  When one does not know one’s heroes, one risks worshipping one’s enemies. When Cecil John Rhodes and his band of colonialists, including missionaries, came to Zimbabwe, they had to mislead Africans...

Nothing beats ownership

WE, in the village, take pride in ownership. To say uyu musha waJari, idzo imombe dzaJoromiyo, uyo munda watete Jenny, emboldens us, identifies us. We are happy that our kith and kin in urban centres have received, and more will get, title deeds to their properties. The...

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