THE most critical aspect about the recent approval by Cabinet of amendments to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Bill, also known as the Patriotic Bill, is that it is driven by the Government’s noble drive to further assert its unwavering stance on the...
By Rutendo Benson Matinyarare
ACCORDING to News Hawks, a Zimbabwean lawyer by the name of Siphosami Malunga, has written a book in which he concludes that the Matabeleland unrest or civil war, which killed less than 1 500 people in seven years, according to the...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
AS the country heads towards the 2023 harmonised elections, groups being funded by their Western handlers and advocating regime change are surfacing.
This week, The Patriot digs into activities by the East West Management Institute (EWMI), Internews and the National Democratic Institute or...
AS the BRICS bandwagon continues to gather pace, muted conversations in Harare that now is the time for Zimbabwe to be part of the inclusive-oriented development group are increasingly becoming difficult to ignore.
BRICS’ thrust has been on an upward curve since its formation in...
THE most strange thing about US President Joseph Biden’s stinging attack on ‘unfavourable’ election results denying candidates is how he has forgotten that his country is at the forefront of encouraging the same in countries like Zimbabwe where millions of dollars have been given...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
A DENIER is a person or a group of people who refuse to accept the existence, truth or validity of something despite empirical evidence.
In politics we have many of these, they are called election deniers.
This group of people will not accept an...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
WITHOUT ZANU PF, civil society organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe will shut down.
Secretly they want ZANU PF to win, and they know it will, because it has been transforming the lives of the people albeit the sanctions restraints.
To remain relevant and justify their...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
WHEN the US and the EU first announced their intention to sanction a ‘few’ individuals and entities, many Zimbabweans could neither understand nor fathom the gravity of it all.
That is until the effects started seeping into each and every home.
Sanctions were felt...
By Rutendo Matinyarare
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is managing under ZDERA, EO13469, EU, IEEPA and extra-jurisdictional third party secondary sanctions.
Well, the...
WHEN the world joins Zimbabwe in calling for the unconditional removal of Western-imposed illegal economic sanctions on the country on October 25, it will not only be about preserving Harare’s enduring but agonising history but securing its future.
The country’s sanctions history makes excruciating reading...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
THE Second Republic, through its resilience, is making significant strides towards development under the harshest of conditions wrought by Western-imposed illegal economic sanctions.
There are sellouts who requested the imposition of sanctions and continue urging tightening of the same on Zimbabwe.
Indeed, these are...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
THE so-called champions of democracy and ‘human rights’, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is seemingly failing on the fair practices front resulting in factionalism which has sent the Western-backed party into a tailspin.
Factionalism is rife in the ailing opposition CCC.
It has...
