Author Archives: David Coltart
Pass Rate increased from 2009
BBC News 7 February 2013 Zimbabwe’s education minister has deplored the fact that nearly 82% of students have failed their basic school leavers’ exams, the Ordinary Level. But David Coltart told the BBC this was an improvement on 2009, when only 14% passed and blamed a decade of “chaos”. His Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) […]
‘Govt biggest threat to education’
Daily News By Nyasha Chingono 7 February 2013 Government remains the biggest threat to the development of the education sector, a Cabinet minister has said. Education minister David Coltart has blamed the poor pass rate recorded for last year’s ‘O’ Level examinations on warped government priorities, which have seen ministers and top officials getting luxury […]
Coltart appoints new SRC board
Daily News By Blessings Mashaya 7 February 2013 Sports minister David Coltart yesterday announced the new Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) board, returning lawyer Joseph James as chairperson. Bulawayo-based James, a former lower league football player, will lead the eight-member board of the country’s supreme sport governing association. Experienced athletics administrator Edward Siwela has also […]
Low investment in education to blame for poor ‘O’ level results: Coltart
The Zimbabwean By Edgar Gweshe 7 February 2013 The low investment in the country’s education sector for the past years is largely to blame for the poor Ordinary Level results recorded this year, according to The Minister of Education, Sport Arts and Culture, David Coltart. “The real cause of this is the lack of investment […]
Andy Flower and Henry Olonga, men who spelt out their love of Zimbabwe in black and white
The Times By Alison Mitchell 7 February 2013 Ten years later, the ‘comrades’ who drew attention to the plight of their nation remain convinced it was the right move Andy Flower is struggling — but just about succeeding — to stop his voice from breaking up. He is carefully and deliberately reading aloud from a […]
James re-appointed SRC chairman
The Herald by Ellina Mhlanga 7 February 2013 THE Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart, has appointed a new Sports Commission board that will run the country’s supreme sports regulatory body for the next three years with Joseph James retaining his position as the chairman. The previous board’s term of office expired last […]
Andy Flower & Henry Olonga: the ‘death of democracy’ remembered
BBC Sport By Sam Sheringham 7 February 2013 It was the moment that marked out Andy Flower and Henry Olonga as two of the most courageous figures in the history of their sport. On 10 February 2003, as their country prepared to host its first World Cup match, the Zimbabwe cricketers released a statement to […]
Zimbabwe has a thing or two to teach
The Mercury By Colleen Dardagan 6 February 2013 DESPITE the political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe, UN research shows the country to be one of the most literate in Africa. But teachers are paid half of what their counterparts in South Africa are. The government spends just R18 a child each month. School buildings are […]
Coltart Lynching Clouds Debate
News Day By Kholwani Nyathi 6 February 2013 There is no doubt Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart is one of the best performing ministers in the inclusive government and this makes the ongoing media onslaught against him rather curious. Coltart appears to have touched a raw nerve when he caused the Sports […]
O Level Results Paint Sorry Picture
News Day 6 February 2013 Last week the social media was inundated with results of the sons and daughters of the right and famous in Zimbabwe who had sat for Cambridge Ordinary Level examinations as their mothers and fathers brandished their chains of ‘A’s. But despite our own Zimsec and education system rated as one […]