Critical teacher shortage hits Matabeleland North

The Zimbabwean Written by Leonard Ncube Sunday, 20 June 2010 Province needs 1400 teachers BULAWAYO – The Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture is battling to fill vacancies for teachers particularly for critical subjects such as science and mathematics with Matabeleland north alone in urgent need of 1 400 teachers. The Education minister David Coltart

The man pushing for change in Zimbabwe

The Australian June 19, 2010 By Malcolm Conn David Coltart is the acceptable face of Zimbabwe cricket. A human rights lawyer and now Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister in Zimbabwe’s fragile inclusive government, Coltart shares a cabinet room with the man who once apparently ordered his assassination, brutal dictator Robert Mugabe. Attempting to rebuild

When All is Not Black and White: Lessons from Zimbabwe

Croz Walsh’s Blog 19 June 2010 I was at Auckland airport, just having returned from Fiji last week (of that more later), when I picked up a discarded copy of The Dominion Post* opened at “Mugabe’s Uneasy Ally Pleads for Kiwi Cricket Tour.” Intrigued — and thinking there could be a lesson here for New Zealand

We are not anti-Howard for ICC: Zimbabwe Cricket

Zimbabwe Guardian By Nancy Pasipanodya 19 June 2010 ZIMBABWE cricket bosses have denied rumours that they are agitating to stymie former Australian Prime Minister John Howard's nomination as a future ICC president. Zimbabwe Cricket says it has not reached a decision on Australasia's elevation of Mr Howard to the game's most senior administrative post despite

Zimbabwe closer to Howard consensus

LadyBuzz News 18 June 2010 By Priya Kotappa Melbourne, June 17 (ANI): Though there is no guarantee that Zimbabwe Cricket will vote for former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s vice-presidential candidacy in the International Cricket Council (ICC), the country’s Sports Minister, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail. Coltart was in Melbourne and Canberra this

Supporting Howard may supply Zimbabwe with cricket lifeline

Sydney Morning Herald 18 June 2010 By Jamie Pandaram ZIMBABWE’S Sports Minister David Coltart is desperately hoping his nation’s cricket board will endorse John Howard’s nomination as vice-president of the International Cricket Council, and will urge them to support the former Australian prime minister. Coltart fears that any move to block Howard’s ascension to the

Zimbabwe hints at Howard’s ICC chances

The Age 18 June 2010 ZIMBABWE’S Minister for Sport, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail when his country votes on John Howard’s International Cricket Council candidacy. Coltart has been in Melbourne and Canberra this week to meet Cricket Australia and the federal government, discussing plans to resume an exchange of cricket tours with Australia

Interview with David Coltart: Zimbabwe’s fragile coalition

ABC Radio Australia PM, 18 June 2010 With reporter Mark Colvin MARK COLVIN: Should Australian cricket thaw out its relations with Zimbabwe, two years on from the election that brought in a power-sharing agreement there? Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF Party lost the election of 2008, and after much negotiation were forced to share power

Australia to renew ties with Zimbabwe

AFP 17 June 2010 SYDNEY — Australia could renew cricketing ties with Zimbabwe next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams, the African country’s Sports Minister David Coltart has revealed. The Zimbabwe A team will likely tour Australia in mid-2011, the first step in an agreement that would also see an

Zimbabwe closer to Howard consensus

Sydney Morning Herald 17 June 2010 By Daniel Brettig AAP Zimbabwe’s Minister for Sport, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail in the case of his country’s vote for the John Howard ICC candidacy. But like everything else in the slow, precarious regeneration of his stricken nation, nothing is guaranteed. Coltart has been in Melbourne