Author Archives: David Coltart

Daily News By Wendy Muperi 10 June 2013 HARARE - Zimbabweans should fight for their democratic voting right by registering as voters in the forthcoming watershed election. Education minister and Senator, David Coltart told citizens to take advantage of the second voter registration and inspection exercise which commences today nationwide. “The intensive national exercise of voter registration […]

Afrocomplete Online News 8 June 2013 Official Statement from David Coltart, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in Zimbabwe Biography David Coltart, MDC Senator, has been a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe since his return to the country in 1983. He was first elected to represent the Bulawayo South House of Assembly constituency […]

The Zimbabwean By Sokwanele 7 June 2013 Zimbabwe Election Watch Issue 3 is written in the wake of a Constitutional Court ruling handed down on 31 May which compels the President to hold elections before 31 July 2013. This ZEW summary focuses primarily on the ensuing issues raised by the ruling. The case was brought […]

News Day By News Day Reporter 7 June 2013 THE MDC secretary for legal affairs David Coltart yesterday said there is need to go back to the Constitutional Court to ask it to reverse its decision ordering the holding of elections by July 31 as it has caused a constitutional crisis. Coltart, in a statement, […]

The Chronicle By Pamela Shumba 7 June 2013 THOUSANDS of pupils in Bulawayo cannot read or write and are performing far below their form levels in Mathematics, the Bulawayo provincial Education Director, Mr Dan Moyo, revealed yesterday. Addressing delegates at the official launch of the Performance Lag Address Programme (PLAP), for Bulawayo, at Coghlan Primary School […]

Bloomberg Business Week  By Brian Latham 6 June 2013 Zimbabwe can’t hold general elections by a July 31 deadline set by the Supreme Court without violating the constitution, according to Senator David Coltart. There isn’t enough time for the registration of voters that ends July 9 and the nomination of candidates 30 days before a […]

Southern Eye by Nduduzo Tshuma 6 June 2013 Zanu PF is going all out to entice voters ahead of the next election, with the party now sending text messages, even to political opponents, pleading for the endorsement of President Robert Mugabe. The party started dispatching messages on Monday, as it seeks to woe voters, particularly […]

Southern Eye By Dumisani Nkomo 6 June 2013 BULAWAYO is famed as the City of Kings largely due to its rich epic regal history of King Mzilikazi and Lobengula Khumalo and the Mambos before them. Is Bulawayo, or more generally Matabeleland, or even more broadly the southern region of the country, able to produce an […]

6 June 2013 Statement by the MDC regarding the announcement made by the Registrar of Voters that the Voter registration exercise mandated by the Section 6(3) of the Constitution will commence on Monday the 10th June 2013. Were it not for its desperately serious consequences the Constitutional crisis regarding the deadline of the 31st July […]

SW Radio Africa By Tichaona Sibanda 6 June 2013 The SADC summit on Zimbabwe, which was due in Maputo, Mozambique on Sunday, will now be held in Pretoria, South Africa on Monday, according to sources. SW Radio Africa is reliably informed that the summit was postponed by a day to give all parties to the […]