Category Archives: Press reports

Leader in The Guardian Tuesday May 13 2008 Morgan Tsvangirai was right to decide to return to Zimbabwe to contest the second round runoff. His departure, over a month ago, to lobby the governments of southern Africa was initially a shrewd move, and did much to undermine Thabo Mbeki’s attempts to shield his embattled friend […]

The Nation (Nairobi) 5 May 2008 By Kitsepile Nyathi in Harare Even if President Mugabe bludgeons his way into a victory in the runoff he will find governing during a sixth term untenable, warns Zimbabwean opposition legislator and legal expert, Mr David Coltart. He spoke as it finally dawned on election weary Zimbabweans that a […]

The Telegraph By Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg 5 May 2008 Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, came under growing pressure yesterday to take part in a second round of the country’s presidential election. His party, the Movement for Democratic Change, insists that Mr Tsvangirai won the vote in March outright and that no run-off is necessary. […]

Sunday Independent (SA) By Maureen Isaacson May 04 2008 Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is not Tom Cruise. Tendai Biti, the MDC secretary-general and one of Zimbabwe’s top lawyers, says Tsvangirai, the former mineworker who looks set to rule Zimbabwe, is no actor, nor is he manipulative in the […]

The Independent on Sunday By Raymond Whitaker Sunday, 4 May 2008 Taking part would allow Mugabe to steal election, opposition leaders fear Zimbabwe’s opposition leaders face an agonising dilemma today as they meet to decide whether to contest the second round of the presidential election against President Robert Mugabe. On Friday, nearly five weeks after […]

The Zimbabwe Guardian By Dyke Sithole Sunday, 04 May 2008 THE newly elected MDC Senator for Khumalo constituency, David Coltart says there is need for the transformation of both the public and private media into critical and analytical institutions of the government of the day and opposition political parties. Addressing journalists in Bulawayo during the […]

The Observer, Sunday May 4 2008 By Tracy McVeigh and Parker Khesani in Bulawayo MDC members fail to make a decision as their leader Morgan Tsvangirai remains abroad amid fears for his safety After a day of top level meetings, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party yesterday failed to make a decision on whether it will take […]

The Standard, 4th May 2008 Information and Publicity Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu last week disrupted a function for journalists celebrating World Press Freedom Day when he took issue with the organisers after they asked him to respond to a keynote address by Senator David Coltart. Ndlovu, who arrived shortly before the meeting at the Bulawayo Press […]

Chicago Tribune Apr 30, 2008 Suspiciously delayed poll results, army trucks fanning out through villages, police ransacking opposition party offices, and reports of torched huts and broken-limbed civilians _ such has been the ugly face of democracy for nearly a decade in Zimbabwe, and by now most political experts have given up asking whether millions […]

The Zimbabwean 30th April 2008 Wayne Munroe, a farmer in Nymandlovhu (just outside Bulawayo in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe), has been under siege since early this morning. His property has been encircled by in excess of 100 “war veterans”. He phoned the police in Nymandlovhu to inform them of the problem and was on the phone […]