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By David Coltart Bulawayo 28th May 2022 It is a great honour for me to be asked by the family to speak today.  As we celebrate Boetie’s life and mourn his passing it is important that we reflect on his life and the principles he stood by so that we can learn from them and […]

Newsday 25th January 2022 BY CATHERINE MUCHIRI STAKEHOLDERS in the education sector have called on government to address the multi-pronged crisis in the sector amid reports that 1,5 million learners have dropped out of school due to poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown. The call came as the world yesterday commemorated International Day of Education. […]

His love for cricket and Zimbabwe drew him back to both time and again. It would also be his undoing BY FIRDOSE MOONDA   www.thecricketmonthly.com  JANUARY 12, 2022 Heath Streak had never heard a silence so loud. It was March 2018 and Zimbabwe had failed to qualify for the 2019 World Cup. Missing out was a matter of […]

Daily Maverick 3rd October 2020 By Peter Fabricius Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change- Alliance (MDC-A), is under severe attack as the country’s ruling ZanuPF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, MDC-T, to help it seize the much bigger party’s parliamentary seats and other elected offices, headquarters and finances. ZanuPF has […]

263 Chat 2nd October 2020 By Fadzai Ndangana Teachers have rejected the 40 percent cost of living adjustment offer by the government demanding a wage in the region of USD 520 for the lowest paid public worker synonymous with their October 2018 pay structure. In an interview with with 263Chat, spokesperson of the Amalgamated Rural […]

Senator David Coltart 17th April 2020 The Zimbabwean Coronavirus lockdown is due to end at midnight on Sunday the 19th April. Mr Mnangagwa has stated that his government is going to review that policy and has suggested he will make a decision on the 20th April, but if it is left that late that will […]

The Mnangagwa regime is deeply concerned about the threat that Nelson Chamisa’s MDC A Party poses to its hegemony and yesterday went to extraordinary lengths to try to neutralise that threat. On the face of it the Supreme Court has ordered Chamisa to submit himself to another Congress of the MDC which will be convened […]

Zimbabwe Independent By Nyasha Chingono 27th September 2019 TWENTY years after it was formed amid high hopes, the opposition MDC’s pathway to power remains hazy amid concerns it lacks the gravitas to mount a formidable challenge to dislodge Zanu PF from power. On the contrary, its nemesis, formed in 1963, managed to win state power […]

Newsday BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE/RUTENDO MATANHIKE/NQOBANI NDLOVU 26th September 2019 udge president Justice George Chiweshe yesterday dismissed the State’s urgent chamber application to stop Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) leader Peter Magombeyi from leaving the country for South Africa to seek medical attention. The State had submitted that it wanted more than two more days to […]

David Coltart Blog Bulawayo 24th September 2019 Zimbabweans can be forgiven for thinking that they must be with Alice in Wonderland because our legal system and law enforcement is so increasingly and utterly bizarre. About 10 days ago a medical doctor, the President of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, who was representing doctors in salary […]