Ministry proposes improvement of teachers’ lot
Newsday By Staff Writer 2 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52
Ministry proposes improvement of teachers’ lot
Newsday By Staff Writer 2 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52
Zimbabwe Human Rights – lest we forget
Letter from Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum 01 Aug 2010 Dear Friends, Tonight, 30.07.2010, the Forum will launch, at a high profile event in Bulawayo, the second volume of our “Taking Transitional Justice to the People Outreach Reportâ€. The launch will take place this evening at 6.00pm in the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel. Key speakers will
U Tube link to David Coltart’s interview on BBC Hardtalk originally aired on 20 July 2010
U Tube 29 July 2010 Stephen Sackur asks David Coltart the hard questions on what the GPA has done for Zimbabwe. (There are 3 parts to the interview on Youtube) BBC Hard Talk on Zimbabwe 1of3 www.youtube.com Interview of David Coltart, Zimbabwean cabinet minister. Cut and paste this link: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUwSd4QAmX4Y&h=eed93
Building a Jerusalem in Zimbabwe’s green and pleasant land
The Guardian By David Smith 29 July 2010 Place names, schools, eloquent oratories and, of course, cricket can make Zimbabwe seem the most English of African countries High tea and cakes to the strains of a grand piano. Rooms with names such as Balmoral, Edinburgh, Windsor, Mirabelle and Edward & Connaught. An oak-panelled grill that
The Commonwealth and Africa
Business Day by Kaye Whiteman 29 July 2010 At the risk of readers muttering ‘there he goes againâ€, I find myself making a case for another look at the Commonwealth and its works, even though I wrote extensively last November on the Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). If I return to the topic it is
School curriculums overhaul on cards
The Herald by Herald Reporter 29 July 2010 The Government will soon overhaul school curriculums to meet key recommendations of the 1999 Nziramasanga Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Education, a Cabinet minister has said. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said this at Tuesday’s unveiling of the new Zimsec board in Harare. “We
McCully Has NZ$2855 Dinner With IRB
www.voxy.co.nz 29 July 2010 By Paloma Migone of NZPA Wellington, July 29 NZPA – Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully could have scored points with the International Rugby Board after an extravagant $2855 dinner. Credit card statements released today from April 1 to June 30 show more $2800 was charged on the staff credit card
Coltart appoints new Zimsec board
Herald 28 July 2010 Herald Reporter Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart has announced a new 18-member Zimbabwe School Examinations Council board as part of efforts to revamp operations at the body. He retained three members from the old board. The new board is chaired by Solusi University Vice Chancellor Professor Norman Maphosa
Breaking down borders in an effort to learn
www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk 28 July 2010 By Sandy Neil Traquair House is inviting you to travel beyond borders and explore the world’s small nation cultures at the new international arts festival Borders, Books and Bikes on August 14 and 15. Writers, thinkers and artists from Palestine, Zimbabwe, Georgia, Kurdistan and Sierra Leone will join storytellers from Scotland