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Are Zimbabweans worth dying for?
Newsday 7th March 2017 By Moses Chamboko Many people have lost their lives fighting for democracy in Zimbabwe. These include Talent Mabika and Tichaona Chiminya, MDC activists who were callously murdered in the lead-up to the hotly-contested 2008 elections. David Coltart’s personal aide, Patrick Nabanyama disappeared on June 19, 2000 and was later found dead, […]
Charamba Bid To Distance Mnangagwa From Gukurahundi
Radio VOP By Sij Ncube 31 January 2017 Harare, January 31, 2017 – PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson, George Charamba is working overtime in a desperate bid to assist Vice President Emmerson Mngangwa’s presidential succession bid in the faction-riddled party Zanu PF leader, analysts say. Mugabe’s party is sharply divided into two distinct camps, Lacoste – […]
Nathaniel Manheru attacks The Struggle Continues in the Herald
The Herald By Nathaniel Manheru 28 January 2017 Web administrator’s note: Nathaniel Manheru is thought to be George Charamba, President Mugabe’s spokesman and a vigorous supporter of VP Mnangagwa. He writes a weekly comment in The Herald from which this diatribe was extracted. Coltart who wrote Late last year, one David Coltart released a book […]
The Struggle Continues by David Coltart — becoming Zimbabwe – a Financial Times Review
The Financial Times History Section By Michael Holman 13th January 2017 An insider’s account of Robert Mugabe’s regime is also a brave act of defiance What is it about southern Africa that creates so many moral heavyweights? It seems that adversity and repression in that part of the world stimulate rather than inhibit, and bring […]
Bloomberg.com include “The Struggle Continues” as one of its “Best Books of 2016”
Bloomberg.com By Julie Verhage and Simon Kennedy 8 December 2016 Bloomberg.com has included David Coltart’s “The Struggle Continues – 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe”, at the instance of its contributor Roland Rudd, the Chairman of Finsbury, as one of its best books of 2016. Rudd wrote the following: ““Coltart’s is a remarkable book by […]
‘THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES’ 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe’ by David Coltart. A contrarian view.
Africa Unauthorised http://africaunauthorised.com/?p=2638 By Hannes Wessels 22nd October 2016 David Coltart is a man who I have long held in high regard. Courageous and principled, he has been at the fore in the dangerous struggle for meaningful change in Zimbabwe and all of us who want better for Zimbabwe are indebted to him. However, reading […]
Cephas Msipa: One of Zimbabwe’s greatest patriots
Financial Gazette By Senator David Coltart 20th October 2016 CEPHAS Msipa’s death this week has robbed Zimbabwe of one of her greatest statesmen and patriots. Although I first only got to meet him in 1994, he became a valued friend, a wise counsellor and an inspirational figure in my life. Although Msipa has captured the […]
A remarkable testament of hope for Zimbabwe
The Spectator 15 September 2016 By Matthew Parris David Coltart’s memoir describes incredible courage as well as political folly and human brutality ‘One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed though right were worsted, wrong would triumph Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight […]
A Minister’s courageous stance shows education is key
Sunday Argus By Chris Chivers September 11 2016 TAXI drivers are usually shrewd judges of reality. Careering around the CBD and well beyond as a priest at St George’s Cathedral I learnt more in the context of minibus taxis about grassroots South African living than I did from most of the church meetings I attended! […]
The Coltart McGrath Regime change agenda
The Herald By Obi Eguna Jnr Simunya 26th August 2016 This is a scurrilous piece regarding my son and daughter in law. For some reason the Herald does not allow one to cut and paste their articles so the link to this article is below. The Coltart/McGrath regime change agenda