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Chamisa should carry his cross

By Elizabeth Sitotombe    THE problems bedevilling Nelson Chamisa and his estranged CCC are self-inflicted.  Like the saying goes: ‘You can fool all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.’  When CCC members realised Chamisa’s oratory skills were only...

Why Chamisa quit CCC

THE audacious attempts last week by beleaguered former CCC ‘leader’ Nelson Chamisa to smuggle himself into Government had nothing to do with his feigned love for the country but were a last ditch resort to cushion himself from what inevitably turned to be an...

Counselling Services Unit in drugs row

By Elizabeth Sitotombe IT has come to The Patriot’s attention that the Counselling Services Unit (CSU) has been operating without a medicine dispensing licence.  The CSU runs a clinic that offers treatment and counselling. The CSU was based at 1 Raleigh Street, Kopje, Harare, but when...

CCC threatens members

By The Patriot Reporter “VANHU vakatovharidzirwa neparty vadyiwa ndivo number one kupandukira mukuru. Regai dust rimboderera mutengesi wese anofanirwa kutandaniswa. Kuti uku President varikurwa ne ZANU imi moita zva Tshabangu munotengesa zvinorwadza imi. Kutemesa musoro mwana wamai Nelson. Mose manyorwa apa kana murimuno mugroup chizivai mave...

Cde Shamu warns land barons

By Emergency Mwale-Kmutande, recently in Zvimba West ZANU PF’s national Deputy Political Commissar, who is also Member of Parliament for Chegutu West Cde, Webster Shamu has sent a stern warning to land barons fleecing desperate homeseekers of their hard earned cash. Addressing ZANUPF supporters at a...

Okay Machisa’s Damascene momentmoment

By Okay Machisa  THE coming-in of the Second Republic, led by His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa, influenced my departure from ZimRights in 2019, where I had served as the national director for 11 years, since 2008.  My departure from ZimRights was not a forced circumstance but...

2024: Year of plenty

WHILE there are many things to look forward to for the people of Zimbabwe in 2024, most importantly, Government has put in place plans for another year of prosperity; it has already kick-started processes to make it a resounding success.  Since assuming office in 2017,...

Okay Machisa sets the record straight

Okay Machisa sets the record straight  ...we are past the era of pulling in different directions Machisa THE coming-in of the Second Republic led by His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa influenced my departure from ZimRights in 2019, where I had served as the National Director for...

More fissures in CCC …’Shift the Power Summit’ factor

ON December 3 2023, the Zimbabwe Human Rights (ZimRights) director, Dzikamai Bere, left the country to attend a summit: ‘Shift the Power Global Summit’ where over 700 activists from across the globe assembled in Bogota, Colombia. The Summit took place from between December 5-7. It was...

Hunting benefits the world can’t ignore …visit Masoka hunting community today

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA.  THERE is a generation in which wildlife revenue brought clean drinking water to thirsty humans, built them a school, a clinic, a road that linked them to the rest of the world and created employment. More than 30 years after...

US escalates anti-Zimbabwe war

THERE was nothing surprising or unusual about the US’ extension of its illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe on December 4. The announcement is just another escalation of Uncle Sam’s economic war and hostility against the country. The extension again demonstrates that the US thrives on fooling...

Opposition and the national interest

THERE are many lessons that can be drawn from South African opposition party, EFF’s collaboration with the ruling ANC to cut ties with Israel over its unjustified military attacks on Palestine.  What is clear is that the key to any country’s well being and global...

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