“Tsvangirai Trained Bandits in South Africa” alleges The Herald in distorting what is written in #StruggleContinues
The Herald, 24 March 2016 By Tichaona Zindoga Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2006 trained bandits in South Africa in preparation for a violent takeover of power in Zimbabwe, a new book by former Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South David Coltart has revealed. Editor’s note – the book #StruggleContinues does not state that Tsvangirai
Zimbabweans Urged to Openly Discuss 5 Brigade Atrocities
VOA Studio 7 By Gibbs Dube 24 March 2016 WASHINGTON DC — President Robert Mugabe once described the Five Brigade atrocities in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces in the 1980s as a moment of madness. In the late 1980s, he set up an inter-ministerial committee headed by the late Vice President John Nkomo to look
Congratulations To Senator David Coltart For His Book
Nigeria News Statement by Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights 23 March 2016 Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights would like to congratulate prolific Bulawayo human rights lawyer and esteemed legislator Honorable Senator David Coltart for his compelling book: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES – 50 YEARS OF TYRANNY IN ZIMBABWE. Coltart’s book is one piece of literary work
‘ Senator David Coltart dares Mnangagwa to sue him over revealing Mnangagwa’s Gukurahundi statements’
The Chronicle 23 March 2016 VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denounced “false and malicious†statements he says are contained in a book recently published by Bulawayo Senator David Coltart (MDC) Mnangagwa said he “noted with concern†claims in Coltart’s autobiography, The Struggle Continues, that he incited violence against civilians in the 1980s at the height
Former Minister David Coltart Clashes With VP Mnangagwa Over 5 Brigade Atrocities
VOA Studio 7 23 March 2016 By Taurai Shava BULAWAYO — Politician David Coltart, who is also a veteran lawyer, maintains that he stands by remarks contained in his book regarding what Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to have said in 1983, when government deployed the North Korean-trained Five Brigade in Matabeleland and Midlands
Mnangagwa Gukurahundi denials stir up hornet’s nest
Newsday 22 March 2016 Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday denied ever uttering inflammatory statements that could have stoked tensions during the Gukurahundi era, but the denial could yet trigger questions on his role during the 1980s killings. Mnangagwa said statements attributed to him that dissidents were cockroaches that needed DDT was to exterminate them were
Zim VP mulling legal action against ex-minister over ‘massacre’ claims
News 24 22 March 2016 News24 Correspondent Harare – Zimbabwean presidential hopeful Emmerson Mnangagwa would be “poorly advised” to sue over claims in a recently-published book that he may have helped incite a notorious massacre, the book’s author David Coltart said Tuesday. Lawyers for Mnangagwa were “currently perusing” former education minister Coltart’s book before deciding
Mnangagwa dismisses Coltart’s claims
Herald 22 March 2016 Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dismissed as false and malicious, claims by former Education Minister David Coltart that he had made inflammatory statements that could have fomented Gukurahundi killings in the late 1980s. Mr Coltart’s sentiments were published in Alpha Media Holdings’ Southern Eye edition last week. In a statement yesterday,
‘DAVID COLTART AUTOBIOGRAPHY (50 YEARS OF TYRANNY IN ZIMBABWE), UNRAVELS GUKURAHUNDI MASSACRES
Southern Eye By Richard Chidza 22 March 2016 VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s role in the Gukurahundi massacres has once again been thrust into the limelight, with former Education minister David Coltart accusing him of making inflammatory statements that could have formented the killings. In his autobiography, The Struggle Continues: 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, Coltart
“Emmerson Mnangagwa would be ill-advised to sue me” – David Coltart
News24 22 March 2016 This is after Zanu-PF big wig took exception to a review of opposition politician’s new book The Struggle Continues Zim VP mulling legal action against ex-minister over ‘massacre’ claims Harare – Zimbabwean presidential hopeful Emmerson Mnangagwa would be “poorly advised” to sue over claims in a recently-published book that he may