Monthly Archives: June 2013
Statement regarding Herald article
STATEMENT REGARDING REPORT IN HERALD THAT THE ELECTORAL ACT SHOULD BE CHANGED BY MEANS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWERS The Herald this morning makes an astonishing claim, namely that Professor Lovemore Madhuku has advocated that the current law allowing prospective voters and candidates to register up to 24 hours prior to nomination court be abolished and that […]
Mobile Voter Registration – Manicaland
MOBILE VOTER REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION CENTRES 2013  The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission wishes to inform the public that the Mobile Voter Registration and Inspection exercise shall commence on the 10th of June 2013 and end on the 9th of July 2013. The Registration and Inspection centres will open at 0700hrs to 1900hrs during working days […]
Mobile Voter Registration – Harare
MOBILE VOTER REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION CENTRES 2013  The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission wishes to inform the public that the Mobile Voter Registration and Inspection exercise shall commence on the 10th of June 2013 and end on the 9th of July 2013. The Registration and Inspection centres will open at 0700hrs to 1900hrs during working days […]
Mobile Voter Registration – Bulawayo
MOBILE VOTER REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION CENTRES 2013 The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission wishes to inform the public that the Mobile Voter Registration and Inspection exercise shall commence on the 10th of June 2013 and end on the 9th of July 2013. The Registration and Inspection centres will open at 0700hrs to 1900hrs during working days and […]
Take advantage of voter registration
Daily News By Wendy Muperi 10 June 2013 HARARE - Zimbabweans should fight for their democratic voting right by registering as voters in the forthcoming watershed election. Education minister and Senator, David Coltart told citizens to take advantage of the second voter registration and inspection exercise which commences today nationwide. “The intensive national exercise of voter registration […]
David Coltart – Zim Elections by July 31 IMPOSSIBLE
Afrocomplete Online News 8 June 2013 Official Statement from David Coltart, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in Zimbabwe Biography David Coltart, MDC Senator, has been a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe since his return to the country in 1983. He was first elected to represent the Bulawayo South House of Assembly constituency […]
Zimbabwe Election Watch : Issue 3
The Zimbabwean By Sokwanele 7 June 2013 Zimbabwe Election Watch Issue 3 is written in the wake of a Constitutional Court ruling handed down on 31 May which compels the President to hold elections before 31 July 2013. This ZEW summary focuses primarily on the ensuing issues raised by the ruling. The case was brought […]
‘Constitutional crisis looms’
News Day By News Day Reporter 7 June 2013 THE MDC secretary for legal affairs David Coltart yesterday said there is need to go back to the Constitutional Court to ask it to reverse its decision ordering the holding of elections by July 31 as it has caused a constitutional crisis. Coltart, in a statement, […]
Programme to address learning anomalies launched in Bulawayo
The Chronicle By Pamela Shumba 7 June 2013 THOUSANDS of pupils in Bulawayo cannot read or write and are performing far below their form levels in Mathematics, the Bulawayo provincial Education Director, Mr Dan Moyo, revealed yesterday. Addressing delegates at the official launch of the Performance Lag Address Programme (PLAP), for Bulawayo, at Coghlan Primary School […]
Zim Vote in July Would Violate Constitution – Coltart
Bloomberg Business Week By Brian Latham 6 June 2013 Zimbabwe can’t hold general elections by a July 31 deadline set by the Supreme Court without violating the constitution, according to Senator David Coltart. There isn’t enough time for the registration of voters that ends July 9 and the nomination of candidates 30 days before a […]