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Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback
The New York Review of Books VOLUME 56, NUMBER 16 • OCTOBER 22, 2009 Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback By Joshua Hammer The arrivals lounge at Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe once provided a sinister foretaste of life under the Robert Mugabe dictatorship. In every corner lurked agents of Mugabe’s Central Intelligence Organization, his domestic […]
Zimbabwe braces for new constitution conference
Xinhua By Tichaona CHifamba 9 July 2009 HARARE, (Xinhua) — The all-stakeholders conference set for Friday and Saturday to chart the way forward for Zimbabwe ’s new constitution will be held against a cloud of uncertainty, suspicion and discord. To many people, the making of a new constitution is one huge step towards a new […]
Hope is on the way
HOPE IS ON THE WAY By David Coltart 20th January 2009 I have just finished celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama by watching it on television with my family. On a day when there is so much gloom in my beloved Zimbabwe – the legacy of decades of oppression – I found the entire […]
Zimbabwe must change now
The Australian By David Coltart December 24, 2008 ZIMBABWE is in the vortex of a perfect humanitarian storm; an unprecedented convergence of AIDS, poverty, hyperinflation, malnutrition, a regime that does not care and, now, cholera. The humanitarian crisis has its roots in the political crisis. The political agreement signed in September by ZANU-PF and both […]
A Port in Zimbabwe’s Storm
Washington Post By David Coltart Wednesday, December 24, 2008 BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — There is a perfect humanitarian storm in my country. The threats of AIDS, poverty, hyperinflation and malnutrition, and now cholera, combined with a regime that has given up on its people, add up to an all-but-untenable state of affairs. It is difficult to […]
Zimbabwe’s humanitarian and political crises need urgent international attention
The crisis in Zimbabwe is getting worse every day. The cholera epidemic is spiralling out of control. Lack of food and famine is increasing in the countryside and according to the UN half of the country’s population of 13.5 million people will need to get food imported to be able to survive. Police brutality is […]
The end of the beginning
By David Coltart Nine years to the day since I stood with Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and many other patriots on the 11th September 1999 at Rufaro Stadium to launch the MDC a deal has been agreed in Harare tonight to bring to an end 28 years of brutal Zanu PF […]
A perspective on the talks and the election of the Speaker
By David Coltart 9th September 2008 During the last few weeks there has been frenzied media speculation that Robert Mugabe has entered into, or is about to enter into, a deal with the MDC formation led by Arthur Mutambara (MDC M ) *1 see below. The MDC M in honouring the terms of the MOU […]
Africa urgently needs its own Age of Enlightenment
GhanaDot.com By James Shikwati August 13, 2008 “The majority of Africans today are poorer than those who lived in the Stone Age Era,” Prof. Gregory Clark tore into our presentation. A Sydney based think tank, The Center for Independent Studies (CIS) introduced Africa to leading Australian business people and politicians. In a forum dubbed ‘Where […]
Ditch this old dictator
The Australian By David Coltart July 25, 2008 WITH talks between the Movement for Democratic Change and ZANU-PF set to determine the future of Zimbabwe, it is incumbent on all to refer to the vision of Zimbabwe held by its most important stakeholders: Zimbabweans. That vision reaches out to gather in the desires and hopes […]