Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-17
Reckless and unacceptable war talk by an immature and inexperienced South African Cabinet minister http://goo.gl/xsYfl Jonathan Moyo rants # Fantastic Masters. But brutal. # Scott slices – will be blow the lead? # Come on Schwartzel for Africa at the Masters! # Schwartzel in the lead on 16th!!!! Go South Africa, go Africa! # Come
Coltart’s pronouncements on education good but . . .
Newsday Comment 16 April 2011 Pronouncements by David Coltart, Minister of Education, Arts, Sport and Culture that the Government is putting in place measures to ensure gifted but disadvantaged children are given the chance to complete their education is welcome news. Coltart told members of the House of Assembly this week that every province was
Coltart backs Aussie cricket tour
Newsday 16 April 2011 Education, Sport, Arts, and Culture minister David Coltart has backed the upcoming cricket tour of Zimbabwe by the Australia A team, arguing that the game has improved vastly in the country. This was in response to efforts by members of the cricket fraternity in Australia who are opposed to the tour.
Missing activist Nabanyama, widow sues Attorney General
RadioVop 15 April 2011 A Zimbabwe widow, Patrica Nabanyama, is suing the Attorney General for refusing to prosecute suspected killers of his husband who was abducted 11 years ago under mysterious circumstances from his Nketa home here for his involvement with the mainstream Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Patrick Nabanyama wants the AG, Johannes Tomana
Australia’s cricket tour a sign of hope for ordinary Zimbabweans
The Sydney Morning Herald By David Coltart April 14, 2011 While no one would argue that the situation in Zimbabwe is perfect, it is unrecognisably better than when Stuart MacGill chose not to tour. As we have seen with the recent cricket World Cup, cricket may be just a game, but it has an enormous
Zim to miss 2015 MDGs deadline
Financial Gazette By Tabitha Mutenga 14 April 2011 WHEN world leaders gathered in New York at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, they all shared the same vision to eradicate world poverty by 2015. However, as the years passed world poverty has increased with over 2,5 billion people living on less than US$2 per
Mobile libraries boost literacy rate
Newsday By Ignatius Banda April 12 2011 Across Zimbabwe, the economic and political crisis has forced students to do without books, classroom furniture and teachers, the basics of a conducive learning environment. These learners cannot go to libraries, so the libraries have gone to them. In recent years, Zimbabwe’s rural schools have become notorious for
Zimbabwe and its political transition
Zimonline By Dr Sue Onslow 2011 April 12 This paper looks at the factors which helped ZANU-PF as a former liberation movement retain power and lead to a one-party dominant state. It also explores the extent to which ZANU-PF is adapting to democratic politics and multiparty elections. Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF offers important parallels and insights
Create employment — Madzongwe
Newsday By Veneranda Langa Apr 11 2011 The President of the Senate, Edna Madzongwe, last week told a visiting delegation of MPs from the Australian parliament that Zimbabwean graduates should focus on creating employment rather than working for other people. She said this after one of the MPs from the delegation of the Joint Standing
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
"Zuma can no longer be trusted if he ever was." Jonathan Moyo, Zanu PF MP, in the Sunday Mail today protesting the SADC communique re Zim # ICC have made an appalling decision to cut next World Cup to 10. They should have dropped to 12 and made Associates qualify for 2 places # The