by Kundai Marunya
EVERY year on May 1, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating Workers’ Day, a tradition rooted in the struggles of the labour movement for fair wages and better working conditions. However, in recent years, the relevance of these...
By Evans Mushawevato
IN 2025, the ghost of imperial semantics still breathes down the neck of the African worker. And in Zimbabwe, the headline reads: '95 percent unemployment'. Yet the fi elds are tilled. Shops are open. Buses are driven. Children are taught. Bricks...
IN a world where symbols often overshadow substance, the idea of a black Pope appears, at face value, to be revolutionary. It promises diversity, inclusion, and historic correction. But for the discerning, the very prospect reeks of a calculated deception, one designed to...
By Kundai Marunya
THE possibility of a black Pope emerging as the next leader of the Catholic Church has ignited fi erce debate among theologians, historians, and social commentators. At a time when the world is increasingly advocating for racial equality, the election of...
MBUYA NEHANDA and Sekuru Kaguvi were not engineers. They were not computer scientists. They were not policymakers. And yet, they were the most visionary innovators of their time, for they understood the original principle of sustainable development: that to defend the land is to...
By Kundai Marunya
ONCE ridiculed on social media as the epitome of backwardness, Gokwe is on the verge of a dramatic transformation that defies the stereotypes long associated with it.
For years, jokes like “Are you from Gokwe?” were weaponised to question someone’s awareness. But this...
AS Zimbabweans across the nation celebrate the country’s 45th Independence Anniversary today (Friday, 18th April), one message rings clear: “Iwe neni tine basa — “you and I have work to do”.
This mantra, rooted in the country’s war of liberation, is a call to shared responsibility...
THIS year Easter coincides with Zimbabwe's independence celebrations.
April 18 is both Good Friday and Independence Day and Zimbabweans are spoilt for choice on which one to celebrate: Gamba rakafira Zimbabwe kana kuti the son of the God of Israel?
But for the discerning, the historical...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
IN politics, opposition parties play a crucial role in holding governments to account and offering an alternative to ruling parties. However, not all opposition movements are created for that purpose. While some genuinely represent the people’s grievances, others operate as career opposition...
I DID NOT know much about The Patriot newspaper when I fi rst encountered it. I would spot it at newspaper stands but never took the time to understand what it was all about. That all changed one day in Kwekwe when Mrs P....
THE Government’s introduction of innovation hubs at all State universities is perhaps the best self-development initiative that has happened in the entire history of the motherland. If handled with delicate care, this should translate to sustainable self-development. The ‘caution’ is in view of the...
THE myth of Rhodesia as the ‘Grain Basket of Africa’ was born out of the 1931 Land Apportionment Act and the 1952 Land Husbandry Act scandals and, it is consistent with the establishment of Rhodesia as ‘a commercial enterprise’, in the words of...
