Monthly Archives: February 2012

Education in Crisis as Mugabe, Tsvangirai Blows Over US $25 million on Globetrotting

Radio VOP 22 February 2012 Zimbabwe’s coalition partners’ addiction with globetrotting might see the country’s ailing education collapsing totally the Education, Sports and Culture Minister David Coltart warned. Coltart on Monday warned government of an imminent dilapidation of the country’s education sector if it continues to its current spending on foreign travel which costs three […]

Zimbabwe will definitely expel Jacob Zuma and jump into elections

ZimEye By Herbert Mugwagwa 21 February 2012 President Robert Mugabe has threatened to reject or better said expel President Jacob Zuma as facilitator to the Zimbabwean crisis. Mugabe on Monday said he would unquestionably hold elections this year, even though the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Movement for Democratic Change party have been […]

Zimbabwe: how we aid profligacy

The Telegraph By David Blair 20 February 2012 Suppose a government chooses to spend nothing on equipping secondary schools, while blowing 1 per cent of public expenditure on trips for the president and the prime minister. Imagine if the two men at the top of this sorry administration reckoned their own offices were more deserving […]

Most Teachers Want Incentives to Stay

The Herald By Wencelous Murape 20 February 2012 Some parents want the gradual scrapping of public service teachers’ incentives as Government reviews their salaries. Some teachers in State schools are now earning well above the poverty datum line calculated at US$565 a month. Even Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart recently hoped that […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19

Ou thoughts are with our neighbours Zambia in the AFCON final this evening – go Chipolopolo Zimbabwe is right behind you! # Hearty congratulations to our northern neighbours, brothers and sisters Zambia on winning AFCON 2012. We are all so proud of the Chipolopolo # Drove around parts of Matabeleland South yesterday and the situation […]

MDC-T dossier chronicles ‘Chihuri violations’

The Zimbabwe Independent By Faith Zaba 19 January 2012 Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri should not be re-appointed as police chief because of his alleged selective application of the law, numerous human rights violations and partisan approach to law enforcement. Chihuri’s actions, the party says, were in violation of the […]

Hon David Coltart – Minister of Education, Sport, Arts & Culture, Zimbabwe, Close, ICTE Summit 2012

Hon David Coltart – Minister of Education, Sport, Arts & Culture, Zimbabwe, closing speech at The Southern African ICT for Education Summit, Elephant Hills Resort, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 26th-27th January 2012.

Hon David Coltart – Minister of Education, Sport, Arts & Culture, Zimbabwe, Opens, ICTE Summit 2012

Hon David Coltart – Minister of Education, Sport, Arts & Culture, Zimbabwe, opening speech at The Southern African ICT for Education Summit, Elephant Hills Resort, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 26th-27th January 2012.

Schools to teach indigenous languages

NewsDay 15 February 2012 The successful introduction of Tonga in the education curriculum has spurred the government to kick-start efforts to pursue a similar programme with other indigenous languages, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart has said. In an interview on Tuesday, Coltart said he had engaged his counterparts in neighbouring countries to […]

Zimbabwe’s Teachers Strike for their Fair Share

Think Africa Press By Kiran Madzimbamuto-Ray 15 February 2012 The government claims it lacks the resources to pay public sector workers above poverty line while hundreds of millions in diamond revenues remain unaccounted for. Double wages may seem an ambitious demand for a public sector strike, but for the 236,000 workers earning well below that poverty […]

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