Government will use ETF fund for secondary school textbooks – Coltart
Newsday By Khanyile Mlotshwa 30 November 2010 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart says government has resolved to publish textbooks for secondary schools through the Education Transition Fund (ETF). Coltart told NewsDay the decision was made last week. “As the distribution of textbooks to primary schools rounded up, a decision was made last
Develop junior football — Chamisa
Newsday By Sports Reporter 29th November 2010 Kuwadzana Member of Parliament Nelson Chamisa over the weekend said football leaders should focus on developing junior football. Chamisa said football fosters unity among Zimbabweans. “In government we have realised how important sport is and I assure you that I will to speak to Sports minister David Coltart
The invisible line between trust and mistrust
Newsday By Conway Tutani 26 November 2010 Somebody had to say it, and Mutumwa Mawere did so this week. Jonathan Moyo has bounded and rebounded from one stance to another in his much-travelled but relatively short political career as to defy label for what he really stands for. He seems to constantly redefine and reinvent
Rural folk will decide next election – analysts
Zimbabwean By Gift Phiri 25 November 2010 HARARE – Next year’s general elections in troubled Zimbabwe will be decided largely by the country’s rural population, as both Zanu (PF) and MDC scale up their efforts to win over the local chiefs. Last week Prime Minister Tsvangirai met with Fortune Charumbira, the president of the Council
Lance Guma’s interview with Senator David Coltart on Question Time
SW RadioAfrica 24th November 2010 Part One of Question Time, where SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Senator David Coltart (pictured). Questions from the listeners centred on what his Ministry is doing to stop the harassment of teachers by ZANU PF youth militia, the alleged incompetence
Boxing – Ambunda faces Zim challenge
Southern Times 22 November 2010 Harare – Paulus Ambunda takes to the ring on November 25 in defence of his World Boxing Organisation Africa title which he has so far managed to hold onto since claiming it in October last year. With an impressive 13-0 record  (seven of his fights victories by KnockOut)  the 30
Schools to get more books
Zimbabwean 21st November 2010 By Mxolisi Ncube JOHANNESBURG – An American non-governmental organisation says it is shipping more books to Zimbabwe for distribution in poor public schools where large numbers of pupils still have to share a single textbook. The group known as Project Aspire: Textbooks for Zimbabwe and headed by Zimbabwean-born writer Bob Scott
A Golden Generation – Zimbabwean Football
Herald 20 November 2010 Column TIMES have certainly been hard in Zimbabwean football — the gloom brought by Asiagate, the chaos triggered by the abortive recruitment of Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet and a 2012 Nations Cup campaign that remains on the edge after four dropped points in two matches that ended in draws. We still
Muckraker: These people are very much with us
Zimbabwe Independent 19 November 2010 THE bigger the lie the more people are inclined to believe it, Nazi Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is reputed to have said. There are a number of “big lies†currently circulating. Muckraker drew attention recently to the claim that Roy Bennett was a Selous Scout. We noted last month that
Outside looking in – a letter from the diaspora
Zimbabwean 19 November 2010 By Pauline Henson ‘The dictator only lets go of what he can control’ I read that comment somewhere as I was studying the reports of Aung San Su Kyi’s release from house arrest last week and I wondered how the generals were going to ‘control’ this woman. Were there any conditions