AS Zimbabwe commemorates Heroes Day this Monday, it is worth reflecting on one of the enduring lessons of the country’s liberation history: that the struggle was never simply about replacing one form of authority with another. At its...
THIS Heroes Day, look past the guns and know that our liberators were fighting a document. Every August, we bring flowers to a sacred hill. We climb the granite terraces of the National Heroes Acre, stand before the Tomb of the Unknown...
HISTORY rarely announces itself at the moment it is being made. There is usually no sign outside an ordinary house declaring that the conversations taking place inside will one day become the subject of textbooks, historical research,...
As we commemorate the 46th edition of our Heroes Day and the 50th anniversary of the Nyadzonia Massacre this week, The Patriot reproduces an eyewitness account by the late freedom fighter and author, Alexander Kanengoni, who captured...