Monthly Archives: April 2011
Coltart backs Aussie cricket tour
Newsday 16 April 2011 Education, Sport, Arts, and Culture minister David Coltart has backed the upcoming cricket tour of Zimbabwe by the Australia A team, arguing that the game has improved vastly in the country. This was in response to efforts by members of the cricket fraternity in Australia who are opposed to the tour. […]
Missing activist Nabanyama, widow sues Attorney General
RadioVop 15 April 2011 A Zimbabwe widow, Patrica Nabanyama, is suing the Attorney General for refusing to prosecute suspected killers of his husband who was abducted 11 years ago under mysterious circumstances from his Nketa home here for his involvement with the mainstream Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Patrick Nabanyama wants the AG, Johannes Tomana […]
Australia’s cricket tour a sign of hope for ordinary Zimbabweans
The Sydney Morning Herald By David Coltart April 14, 2011 While no one would argue that the situation in Zimbabwe is perfect, it is unrecognisably better than when Stuart MacGill chose not to tour. As we have seen with the recent cricket World Cup, cricket may be just a game, but it has an enormous […]
Zim to miss 2015 MDGs deadline
Financial Gazette By Tabitha Mutenga 14 April 2011 WHEN world leaders gathered in New York at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, they all shared the same vision to eradicate world poverty by 2015. However, as the years passed world poverty has increased with over 2,5 billion people living on less than US$2 per […]
Mobile libraries boost literacy rate
Newsday By Ignatius Banda April 12 2011 Across Zimbabwe, the economic and political crisis has forced students to do without books, classroom furniture and teachers, the basics of a conducive learning environment. These learners cannot go to libraries, so the libraries have gone to them. In recent years, Zimbabwe’s rural schools have become notorious for […]
Zimbabwe and its political transition
Zimonline By Dr Sue Onslow 2011 April 12 This paper looks at the factors which helped ZANU-PF as a former liberation movement retain power and lead to a one-party dominant state. It also explores the extent to which ZANU-PF is adapting to democratic politics and multiparty elections. Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF offers important parallels and insights […]
Create employment — Madzongwe
Newsday By Veneranda Langa Apr 11 2011 The President of the Senate, Edna Madzongwe, last week told a visiting delegation of MPs from the Australian parliament that Zimbabwean graduates should focus on creating employment rather than working for other people. She said this after one of the MPs from the delegation of the Joint Standing […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
"Zuma can no longer be trusted if he ever was." Jonathan Moyo, Zanu PF MP, in the Sunday Mail today protesting the SADC communique re Zim # ICC have made an appalling decision to cut next World Cup to 10. They should have dropped to 12 and made Associates qualify for 2 places # The […]
New lease of life for Zimbabwe’s children
Newsday 9th April 2011 Thirteen year old Sarah Motsi (not her real name) is writing her Grade 7 examinations this year and has high hopes of passing. She wants to become a doctor when she finishes school. A few months ago Sarah would not have harboured these ambitions at all as shortages of textbooks and […]
Coltart justifies Longman tender award
Newsday 8th April 2011 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart on Wednesday told Parliament that Unicef has managed $52 million last year to avert a catastrophic textbook shortage and further decline in the country’s educational standards. Coltart made the remarks while addressing MPs in Parliament after they queried how Longman Publishers had won […]