Private lessons: teachers face arrest

The Chronicle By Freedom Mupanedemo 6 July 2012 GOVERNMENT is working on prosecuting teachers who conduct private lessons at a fee in a bid to protect parents and guardians from such unscrupulous educators, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart, said. In an interview on Thursday, Minister Coltart said the ministry was concerned

Bravo David Coltart!

“For some time, I have been concerned about what I perceive as an inequitable distribution of international sporting fixtures in Zimbabwe. For example, the Warriors have not played outside of Harare for some time, thus depriving football supporters throughout Zimbabwe of the opportunity to watch the national team.” With these words David Coltart, the Minister

Zimbabwe Bid to Take Over Schools Illegal: Minister

The following was originally published in TIMES Live: A government notice issued last week by empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere gave foreign-owned banks and private schools a year to comply with a law requiring 51% shareholding by local blacks. But Minister of Education David Coltart, a member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party in

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Says Indigenization Regulations Unlawful

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday dismissed as unconstitutional a government notice published by the indigenization ministry compelling foreign-owned banks, schools and other sectors of the economy to start transferring majority shares to locals. Mr. Tsvangirai said the power-sharing government did not sanction Indigenization Minister Saviour Kasukuwere to issue the notice last Friday which

Unicef pulls out of Beam programme

The Chronicle 4 July 2012 THOUSANDS of orphans and underprivileged primary school pupils under the Basic Education Assistance Module are likely to be stranded after Unicef pulled out of the programme. Unicef has been supporting more than 400 000 disadvantaged primary school pupils for the past three years. Government fully pays tuition fees for Beam secondary

Football Venues Debate Rages On

The Zimbabwe Football Association says they are keen and committed to staging international matches at other venues outside Harare, but the desire to do so is being hampered by severe financial constraints. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation report that the comments come in the wake of the recent concerns raised by the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts

Zimbabwe: Decentralise Venues – Coltart

ZIMBABWE’S Warriors will certainly play their final 2013 Nations Cup qualifier in September at Barbourfields as part of a directive by the Education, Sport and Arts Minister, David Coltart, for national sporting events to be held across the country. All Africa reports that the Warriors have been camped in Harare for years now and have

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-01

Wonderful compliment paid to Andy Flower by one of the world's best bowlers ever – http://t.co/LYgffm0F # Hear some S Africans put down their cricket loss to Zim because their team was not full strength. Nor was ours – no Taibu, Price or Coventry # Congratulations to Brendan Taylor and his merry men for an

Coltart Orders Decentralisation of Soccer Venues

Education, Sport and Arts Minister, David Coltart, has issued a directive for national sporting events to be held across the country with effect from August 1st 2012. As published in ZimEye, in a directive letter to the Sports and Recreation Commission chairman Joseph James, Minister Coltart spelt out the need to decentralise Warriors’ football matches

Coltart Orders Warriors Stadium Rotation

New Zimbabwe reports that Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart has ordered the Sports and Recreation Commission to stage some national team matches out of Harare. David Coltart made the intervention in a letter to the SRC’s board this week. The minister said: “If we are to build national support for all sporting