Monthly Archives: June 2010
Has ZC struck a deal with ICC? – Pakistan set to vote with India on Howard issue
The Telegraph Calcutta 22 June 2010 By Lokendra Pratap Sahi Calcutta: The pro-John Howard lobby in the International Cricket Council (ICC) is convinced that Zimbabwe will break ranks and end its opposition to the former Australia Prime Minister’s nomination as the next vice-president of the world body. Sharad Pawar’s successor in the No.2 position will […]
Zim’s cricket charm offensive
Southern Times 21 June 2010 Harare – Zimbabwe sports minister David Coltart has been in Australia meeting government representatives with the hope of resuming cricket ties between the two countries. This follows a meeting with Cricket Australia (CA) officials earlier in the week, including chairman Jack Clarke and chief executive James Sutherland, where Coltart argued […]
Cricket sets its sights on glory
Newstime.co.za Sunday, June 20, 2010 By Nicholas Ndebele ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) is targeting Bangladesh, West Indies and New Zealand as the first batch of countries to play when they eventually return to Test cricket next year. ZC managing director Ozias Bvute has outlined an ambitious programme, driven by sports minister David Coltart’s drive to revive cricket […]
Critical teacher shortage hits Matabeleland North
The Zimbabwean Written by Leonard Ncube Sunday, 20 June 2010 Province needs 1400 teachers BULAWAYO – The Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture is battling to fill vacancies for teachers particularly for critical subjects such as science and mathematics with Matabeleland north alone in urgent need of 1 400 teachers. The Education minister David Coltart […]
The man pushing for change in Zimbabwe
The Australian June 19, 2010 By Malcolm Conn David Coltart is the acceptable face of Zimbabwe cricket. A human rights lawyer and now Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister in Zimbabwe’s fragile inclusive government, Coltart shares a cabinet room with the man who once apparently ordered his assassination, brutal dictator Robert Mugabe. Attempting to rebuild […]
When All is Not Black and White: Lessons from Zimbabwe
Croz Walsh’s Blog 19 June 2010 I was at Auckland airport, just having returned from Fiji last week (of that more later), when I picked up a discarded copy of The Dominion Post* opened at “Mugabe’s Uneasy Ally Pleads for Kiwi Cricket Tour.” Intrigued — and thinking there could be a lesson here for New Zealand […]
We are not anti-Howard for ICC: Zimbabwe Cricket
Zimbabwe Guardian By Nancy Pasipanodya 19 June 2010 ZIMBABWE cricket bosses have denied rumours that they are agitating to stymie former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s nomination as a future ICC president. Zimbabwe Cricket says it has not reached a decision on Australasia’s elevation of Mr Howard to the game’s most senior administrative post despite […]
Zimbabwe closer to Howard consensus
LadyBuzz News 18 June 2010 By Priya Kotappa Melbourne, June 17 (ANI): Though there is no guarantee that Zimbabwe Cricket will vote for former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s vice-presidential candidacy in the International Cricket Council (ICC), the country’s Sports Minister, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail. Coltart was in Melbourne and Canberra this […]
Supporting Howard may supply Zimbabwe with cricket lifeline
Sydney Morning Herald 18 June 2010 By Jamie Pandaram ZIMBABWE’S Sports Minister David Coltart is desperately hoping his nation’s cricket board will endorse John Howard’s nomination as vice-president of the International Cricket Council, and will urge them to support the former Australian prime minister. Coltart fears that any move to block Howard’s ascension to the […]
Zimbabwe hints at Howard’s ICC chances
The Age 18 June 2010 ZIMBABWE’S Minister for Sport, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail when his country votes on John Howard’s International Cricket Council candidacy. Coltart has been in Melbourne and Canberra this week to meet Cricket Australia and the federal government, discussing plans to resume an exchange of cricket tours with Australia […]