Monthly Archives: May 2008

MDC faces impossible choice over Zimbabwe run-off vote

The Independent on Sunday By Raymond Whitaker Sunday, 4 May 2008 Taking part would allow Mugabe to steal election, opposition leaders fear Zimbabwe’s opposition leaders face an agonising dilemma today as they meet to decide whether to contest the second round of the presidential election against President Robert Mugabe. On Friday, nearly five weeks after […]

Coltart says Zimbabwe media needs transformation

The Zimbabwe Guardian By Dyke Sithole Sunday, 04 May 2008 THE newly elected MDC Senator for Khumalo constituency, David Coltart says there is need for the transformation of both the public and private media into critical and analytical institutions of the government of the day and opposition political parties. Addressing journalists in Bulawayo during the […]

Zimbabwe’s opposition divided over boycott of election re-run

The Observer, Sunday May 4 2008 By Tracy McVeigh and Parker Khesani in Bulawayo MDC members fail to make a decision as their leader Morgan Tsvangirai remains abroad amid fears for his safety After a day of top level meetings, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party yesterday failed to make a decision on whether it will take […]

Minister disrupts Press function addressed by Senator Coltart

The Standard, 4th May 2008 Information and Publicity Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu last week disrupted a function for journalists celebrating World Press Freedom Day when he took issue with the organisers after they asked him to respond to a keynote address by Senator David Coltart. Ndlovu, who arrived shortly before the meeting at the Bulawayo Press […]