Monthly Archives: July 2011

Senator David Coltart The Annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom 26 July 2011 New South Wales Parliamentary Building, Sydney   “The Kingdom of God is forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it”     This coming September will be the 10th anniversary of the horrors of 9/11, one of the world’s worst […]

Encouraged by Zimbabwe's performance against Australia A – 10 of Aus team have played for Aus test side and we are missing 5 key players # Waiting for news on Zimbabwe's World Cup final match against Australia in polocrosse in UK today – any news out there? # Enjoyable evening with Australia A cricket team […]

The Australian By Bruce Loudon 23 July 2011 IT’S about the last thing you would expect him to be, but David Coltart is an optimist. After more than 30 years fighting for human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe, constantly locking horns with Robert Mugabe and defying the worst Mugabe’s brutal regime could throw at him, […]

Newsday Sport Comment 22 July 2011 Football in Zimbabwe cannot be a matter of life and death. Certainly not. We find it strange some people would want to target one member of the Zifa investigating committee in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal and single him out as somebody who has put their lives at risk. The […]

Newsday By Veneranda Langa 22 July 2011 Zifa yesterday appealed to Parliament and the government to intervene and craft legislation that would impose deterrent sentences for match-fixers and to protect those involved in the investigations of the infamous Asiagate scam. Zifa chief executive officer, Jonathan Mashingaidze and board member (finance) Elliot Kasu told the Parliamentary […]

www.kubatanablogs.net  21 July 2011 A recent headline in The Herald caught my eye: 15,000 teaching posts vacant. It brought to mind a recent post I’d seen on Twitter – despite the high levels of unemployment there, an IT company was struggling to fill 20 vacancies. In Zimbabwe, unemployment is estimated at 90%, with the majority […]

Financial Gazette 21 July 2011 THE three parties in the coalition government yesterday shrugged off their political differences to attend the burial of the late national hero, Andrew Sikajaya Muntanga, at the National Heroes Acre, in a rare show of unity. Although Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was conspicuous by his absence, some of his party […]

Newsday By Stanley Makombe 21 July 2011 The Asiagate match-fixing scandal that has been unearthed by the new Zifa administration is indeed a milestone achievement in bringing sanity to local football. I must applaud the new administration for taking this stance which is not usually easy. They have lived up to the saying “new brooms […]