Zimbabwe Cricket board praised by ex-minister
Sunday News By Mehluli Sibanda, Senior Sports Reporter 29th October 2017 FORMER Minister of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture, David Coltart has praised the Tavengwa Mukuhlani led Zimbabwe Cricket board for doing a superb job of turning around the fortunes of the sport in the country. Coltart, a personal friend of former ZC chairman, Wilson
Robert Mugabe’s twilight years – an interview on ABC radio
ABC 25th October 2017 Interview by Phillip Adams Pundits have been predicting Robert Mugabe’s death for years. At 93 Zimbabwe’s leader shows no signs of dying or leaving office, but meanwhile the battle over who will replace him pits his wife, Grace Mugabe, against his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man they call ‘The Crocodile’. Neither
Zimbabwe’s Education Minister Dokora on new curriculum
Newsday Monday 16th October 2017 BY VANESSA GONYE PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora has courted controversy since 2013 when he took over from David Coltart, introducing a raft of changes within a short space of time much to the chagrin of parents and pupils, who felt he was on a mission to take
Biti’s PDP dismisses cabinet reshuffle
The Zimbabwean 10th October 2017 The People’s Democratic Party led by former finance minister Tendai Biti has dismissed President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet reshuffle, saying the nonagenarian seems to be “running around a roundabout that will take him to nowhere.” Mugabe on Monday announced a sudden reshuffle where he dropped three ministers and re-assigned 10 others
Minister Chombo Threatens Media
News 24 25th September 2017 Harare – Zimbabwe’s home affairs minister on Sunday threatened “renegades and malcontents” who he accused of spreading alarm and despondency by claiming there are shortages. In a chilling threat, Ignatius Chombo said that the government was monitoring the press and social media “to deal a telling blow to the perpetrators
How much longer the night? The remorseless tyranny of Robert Mugabe
Times Literary Supplement By Martin Meredith 22 September 2017 A review of two books by Stuart Doran, “Kingdom, Power and Glory” and David Coltart “The Struggle Continues” In a pastoral letter sent to congregations throughout Zimbabwe ten years ago, a group of Catholic bishops issued a scathing indictment of Robert Mugabe’s rule. The plight of
Hitches blight voter registration process
Newsday 22nd September 2017 By NQOBANI NDLOVU TECHNICAL hitches continued to dog the voter registration exercise in some parts of the Matabeleland region yesterday, with some potential voters claiming it took them longer than necessary to have their fingerprints registered in the biometric voter registration (BVR) scanners acquired by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The
Khumalo “donates” seat to Coltart
Newsday BY BLESSED MHLANGA 13th September 2017 MDC-T deputy spokesperson and Bulawayo East legislator Thabitha Khumalo has resolved to step down and not contest in the 2018 general elections after she ceded her parliamentary seat to MDC’s David Coltart as part of the opposition parties’ coalition deal. “Coltart is most likely to be the MDC
Jacket Notes: Stuart Doran on Kingdom, power, glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the quest for supremacy, 1960-1987
Sunday Times 29th August 2017 Kingdom, power, glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the quest for supremacy, 1960-1987 (Sithata Media) by Dr Stuart Doran The publishing of this book, centred on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s orchestration of the Gukurahundi massacres, is the end of a long process. At one level, it began in 2003 when I discovered
David Coltart’s offices raided
Sunday News 27th August 2017 BURGLARS broke into former Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Senator David Coltart’s law firm offices in Belmont, Bulawayo last weekend and got away with an undisclosed amount of money, it has been confirmed. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango, however, said she was not in a position to comment