Category Archives: Biographical
Remaining faithful in a situation of crisis and hopelessness
On Sunday evening the 7th December I spoke at my old church from my University of Cape Town days, Christ Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, on the topic “Remaining faithful in a situation of crisis and hopelessnessâ€. I was asked to speak by Christ Church’s Minister-in-charge Duncan McLea in the context of the terrible suffering […]
Harassment of Coltart catalogued
The Zimbabwean Here we continue with the REDRESS report on human rights abuses experienced by opposition MPs and election candidates. This is what happened to David Coltart, Bulawayo South MP, and MDC Shadow Minister and Secretary for Legal Affairs. Harassment of Coltart began early on. In May 2000 when he attempted to register his candidacy […]
Alumnus personality profile: David Coltart (1982)
University of Cape Town: Law update Alumni News After graduating in December 1982 David joined Webb, Low and Barry (WLB) in Bulawayo. He was admitted as a legal practitioner of the High Court in February 1983. In April 1983, after being appointed Secretary of the Bulawayo Legal Practitioners Association, he established the first Legal Aid […]
Coltart, David; Bulawayo South Candidate 2000
Inter-parliamentary Union In May 2000 when Mr. Coltart attempted to register his candidacy for the MDC party, the Registrar General attempted to bar his nomination claiming he was a British citizen and therefore, ineligible to be nominated. Mr. Coltart was required to prove he was not a British citizen and was a Zimbabwean citizen. In […]
The full story of what is going on in Zimbabwe
Allister Sparks The original plan to bowler-hat Mugabe and put Emmerson Mnangagwa in charge of Zimbabwe has been stymied because the opposition MDC won’t play ball as the ANC wanted, but the plan may now be implemented unilaterally with the Commercial Farmers Union in the token partnership role The first indication that Robert Mugabe might […]
Open Letter to Mugabe
SW Radio Africa by Siphosami Malunga Dear Mr. President I read with utter dismay what was ascribed to be your comments relating to David Coltart and Roy Bennett as reported in the Herald of 5 September 2002. Those comments have motivated me to set the record straight and jolt your memory somewhat about the past. […]
David Coltart and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Background Statement David Coltart was elected to Zimbabwe’s parliament in June 2000, representing the Bulawayo South constituency for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and became MDC spokesperson for legal affairs. For eighteen years prior to entering parliament he was an outspoken advocate for human rights and had emerged as one of the leading human […]
Ground Zero – 120 Broadway
A bitter wind drives The sweet acrid stench Of hateful men Deep into my soul. Sharp shards of steel Greet the eye Burnt, twisted, fragile Grotesquely straining upwards Towards what might have been – And what was. Fires burning deep within Yield papers swept away Heavenwards…. The forlorn remains Of ideas crushed. Somebody’s “vitally important” […]
A Good Man in Africa: Vanguard of A New Zimbabwe
Robin Neilson Day One of the mayoral election in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city. David Coltart, Shadow Justice Minister and Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South, didn’t expect any particular trouble, but he rose early nonetheless, planning to vote before touring various polling locations in the area. By 7:00 a.m., the day promised to be […]
Death threat against MDC candidate
Sapa-Sapa-AFP BULAWAYO — A candidate for Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change, David Coltart, said yesterday he had been informed of a new death threat against him, apparently linked to his work as a human rights lawyer during the Matabeleland massacres in the 1980s. Coltart, who has been threatened on several occasions during the election […]