Monthly Archives: May 2018
Coltart must leave The Herald alone
The Herald Editorial 21st May 2018 This is the Herald’s rant against me this morning. Irony of ironies it confirms their brazen breach of section 61(4) of the Zimbabwe Constitution. Indeed election times are upon us and these are interesting times when national discourse is centred on which political party has the vision, the stamina […]
Coltart: Polls to be fundamentally flawed as long as ZBC, Zimpapers promote Zanu PF
New Zimbabwe 18th May 2018 FORMER Education minister and MDC Alliance Bulawayo East parliamentarian aspirant, David Coltart says the forthcoming elections will be fundamentally flawed as long as the state media continues to breach section 61 of the constitution which compels all government controlled media to be apolitical and non–partisan. He was speaking at a […]
David Coltart: ZBC Violating SADC Guidelines on Elections
VOA 17th May 2018 David Coltart of the MDC Alliance says the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is currently violating Southern African Development Community guidelines on elections as it is not giving opposition parties fair coverage in the run up to the forthcoming polls. Watch what was actually said here: https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-africa-david-coltart/4397694.html
The advantages Nelson Chamisa has so far
Bulawayo News 24 By Hopewell Chin’ono 14th May 2018 I was just wondering about the upcoming election and pondering on whether there are people still to be won over, so-called floating voters. The electoral dynamics in Zimbabwe are very interesting for political watchers. What matters now is how the protagonists are engaging with the electorate […]
MDC Releases Full List Of Election Candidates
Zimeye 13th May 2018 By Paul Nyathi The MDC has unveiled its 34 House of Assembly candidates to contest this year’s harmonised elections. The party did not have any primary elections but used the discretion of the National Council to decide the candidates where more than one person showed willingness to contest the election. The […]
MDC-T infighting results in candidates deadlock
The Chronicle By Pamela Shumba, Senior Reporter 12th May 2018 INFIGHTING in the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T has resulted in the party failing to finalise its list of candidates who will represent it in Matabeleland in the forthcoming general elections. The party which was supposed to finalise the list of candidates in the three Matabeleland […]
Nelson Chamisa is the only Presidential candidate who has a reasonable chance of ending military rule in Zimbabwe
Senator David Coltart Statement regarding the recent MDC Alliance trip to the UK 12th May 2018 I am back from the UK having accompanied MDC Alliance Presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti. In the course of four days we met the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Africa Minister Harriet Baldwin, the Labour Shadow Foreign […]
Nelson Chamisa: Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ Involvement in Politics, Elections Worrying
VOA 10th May 2018 The leader of the MDC-T formation, Nelson Chamisa, says his party is concerned about the Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ involvement in politics. Speaking at Chatham House in London on Wednesday, Chamisa said despite the army’s move to remove former president Robert Mugabe from power last November, he is confident that there are […]
Nelson Chamisa: Zimbabwe Facing Leadership Crisis, Time Has Come for Change
VOA 9th May 2018 The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance’s presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, says Zimbabwe is currently facing a leadership crisis like other African nations. In his address at Oxford Union in the United Kingdom, Chamisa said there is need for a change of government in the country currently devastated a leadership crisis. In […]
Chamisa, MDC Alliance leaders in another trip of shame
The Chronicle Editorial Comment 8th May 2018 IN December last year, less than two weeks after the dramatic events of November where a new dispensation was ushered into power in the wake of former President Robert Mugabe’s resignation, MDC Alliance leaders Messrs Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti embarked on a trip to the United States […]