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Life after COVID-19

By Patience Rusare WITH over a quarter of a million fatalities and close to 4,5 million cases, much of the global population remains socially and physically isolated to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In the past three months, the world came to a screeching halt  as...

COVID-19 and sanctions …NAM stands with Zimbabwe

By Eunice Masunungure  THE US’ tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade policy aimed at bringing Zimbabwe’s economy to its knees has become more inhumane in the COVID-19 pandemic season, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has said. The NAM is a forum of 120 developing world...

NAM still a force

WHEN the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held its virtual summit last week, it was not only a historical moment but a strong message to the world that the entity is still a vital cog in curtailing Western powers’ ever intrusive politics against other sovereign nations. The...

Contradictions in national currency policy

By Dr Tafataona Mahoso THE introduction to the very first top-page story in The Herald for  May 5 2020 goes back to an important issue which The Patriot has been raising through this column since 2014 and which I have raised through other columns since...

Working for the motherland

THERE is an untold story about the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially where Zimbabwe is concerned, where it will be and how it has managed, for two decades to defy the odds and still be able to continue with its long and painful...

COVID-19 turns eye-opener

By Evans Mushawevato INDEED, we are on our own. But this should not be a source of despair.  It should be a clarion call.  It should be a call to take a different course of action.  Zimbabwe, like most developing nations in the world, is in dire need of...

At the mercy of COVID-19

At the mercy of COVID By Fidelis Manyange WITH the cases of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Zimbabwe on the increase, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was spot on by extending the lockdown period. COVID-19, which has affected the world, is real and is a deadly...

Painful road to recovery

FOR COVID-19 patients who respond successfully to intensive care treatment and are discharged from hospital, the road to recovery can still be a lengthy one. The latest report into patients admitted into critical care for COVID-19 so far in England, Wales and Northern Ireland showed...

Sanctions must go now!

THERE are many things that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us. One lesson stands tall in all this. Strife has no limits or restraints. When it visits a people, it is ruthless. It wipes off anything that stands in its way. All in all, it either makes or breaks...

It all happened in April

IT is befitting that we got our independence in April, the very month Mbuya Nehanda was executed and the Battle of Chinhoyi, which marked the onset of the armed struggle, also took place. Gaining our independence hinged, to a great extend, on these two crucial...

COVID-19 and the necessity of state institutions

By Dr Tafataona Mahoso IN The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein wrote the following about the US Government institutions following the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon: “The Bush team, Friedmanite to the core, quickly moved...

Rekindling the spirit of Mbuya Nehanda

By Golden Guvamatanga “MAPFUPA angu achamuka,” (My bones will rise).  These are the words that the iconic Mbuya Nehanda said before the white colonialists brutally murdered her on April 27 1898 for leading the fight against colonialism. Very few could have guessed the import of those prophetic...

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