Mugabe backs Mutambara
Newsday By Owen Gagare 11 February 2011 President Robert Mugabe has refused to swear-in Welshman Ncube as Deputy Prime Minister insisting he wants Arthur Mutambara to remain in that position, MDC secretary-general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga revealed on Thursday. Speaking after the party’s emergency national council meeting called in the wake of Mutambara’s refusal to be redeployed to
Grade-one kids forced to draw Mugabe’s picture
Zimeye.org 11 February 2011 Grade one pupils are being punished for failing to draw President Robert Mugabe’s portrait and congratulatory massages below it. ZimEye witnessed some grade one pupils at Admiral Tait Primary school in Harare being ordered by their teachers to draw the aging President’s portrait and inscribe: ‘21st Movement, happy birthday to you’ below the portrait. Infants
MDC council expels Mutambara
Zimbabwe Independent 11 February 2011 By Paidamoyo Muzulu THE MDC leadership wrangle took a new twist yesterday when the party’s national council expelled former president Arthur Mutambara from the party for having allegedly willfully conspired with Zanu PF in trying to resist his redeployment in government as proposed by the party’s standing committee. The move
Keep Politics Out Of Schools – Coltart
RadioVOP 11 February 2011 Harare. Education, Art, Sports and culture Minister David Coltart has condemned Zanu (PF)’s violent activities which have spread to the education sector where rowdy youths are demanding President Robert Mugabe’s birth day gifts from teachers and school children. “I have said consistently that schools should not be political battle grounds, in
Speech by Senator David Coltart at Greatness Career Conference
Speech by Senator David Coltart Greatness Career Conference Harare: Celebration Centre 10 February 2011 Ladies and Gentlemen, young men and women, Thank you, good morning to you all. I don’t know about you but I certainly want to be here this morning. This is not a ‘have to’ meeting for me at all. And I
Mutambara now represents Zanu PF: MDC
New Zimbabwe.com 10 February 2011 ARTHUR Mutambara’s membership of the MDC was revoked at an emergency meeting of the party’s national council on Thursday, but the party resolved to let him stay on as Deputy Prime Minister in the unity government, but not on its ticket. The MDC said it took the position after President
Cricket In Zimbabwe On A Knife Edge
www.overtimeonline.co.uk 9 February 2011 His eyes betray him. There is nothing there. No emotion at all. Yet the senator talks passion, seemingly oblivious of his all-too familiar bête noir, Robert Mugabe, glaring angrily down at him from the cover of a book. The book sits awkwardly, as if out of place, alongside the hundreds of others
Diaspora chips in to help Coltart rebuild schools
Newsday By Khanyile Mlotshwa 7 February 2011 A group of Zimbabweans based in the United States have set up a committee to help mobilise funds and partner with the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in rehabilitating the country’s education system, especially in the area of science subjects. The group’s spokesperson, Thokozile Mkhwananzi, told
The great illusionists
Sunday Mail 6 February 2011 By Tendayi Regis Mutokonyi We live in a world of magicians or illusionists, people who create scenarios that fool the mind. Some of them practise their trade for purposes of entertainment, like the great acts of the American illusionist Harry Houdini, or film director Steven Spielberg. These acts are essentially
Tribute to a Real Champion – Peter Goosen
Foundationforfarming.org 3 February 2011 By Brian Oldreive Peter Goosen was gifted in many ways, and did many things. His largest contribution was to the mining industry, but I want to remember today the wonderful way in which he brought God’s grace to farming in Zimbabwe and to many other nations. Peter served on the national