Author Archives: David Coltart

Open Equal Free 28 August 2012 Zimbabwe’s Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport, David Coltart, has recently revealed that US $90,000 was diverted from the education budget to cover the Zimbabwe Football Association’s (ZIFA’s) lodging debts. The move was made while Minister Coltart was attending the Olympics, and he only heard of it upon his […]

The Herald 28 August 2012 Zimbabwe got a vote of confidence from the Africa Hockey Federation to host the 2014 World League Hockey first round tournament. In a letter to the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart, the Africa Hockey Federation said they were in full support of the bid but need […]

Sunday News 26 August-1 September 2012 The number of girls reportedly dropping out from school after the completion of their primary education has reached alarming levels and there is need for the Government to develop mechanisms that will effectively curb this trend, a Cabinet Minister has said. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, Senator David […]

The massacre at Marikana http://t.co/uNwR4d7M via @Borainic Very interesting analysis # Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education http://t.co/xZEBtyTz #TED Amazing thoughts – need to apply this to Zim education! # My eight Olympic lessons: http://t.co/rBLmfWNz via @News24 And most of these lessons apply to #Zimbabwe as well # Highlanders (1) 1 Gunners 0 […]

NewsDay By Problem Masau 25 August 2012 Most boarding schools in the country have continued running entrances tests as money-making ventures despite government warnings. Parents are complaining that the administrative costs charged by schools are exorbitant and the schools are inviting as many students as possible for a limited number of places. Most schools are […]

The Sunday News By Vusumuzi Dube 25 August 2012 THE number of girls reportedly dropping out from school after the completion of their primary education has reached alarming levels and there is need for the Government to develop mechanisms that will effectively curb this trend, a Cabinet Minister has said. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture […]

NewsDay By Moses Matenga 24 August 2012 Rural teachers are set to form a splinter representative union, the Zimbabwe Rural Teachers’ Association, which will cater for their specific interests. The eachers have for long accused existing unions and government of downplaying their grievances. The move came at a time rural teachers were complaining that they […]

The Zimbabwe Independent By Kevin Mapasure 24 August 2012 Troubled Zifa will have to find funds elsewhere to host Angola and the subsequent Warriors trip to Luanda for the 2013 Afcon qualifier as government will not be involved. The desperate football governing body, reeling from the embarrassment of an abortive Under-20 trip to Angola for […]

The African Herald 22 August 2012 Firstly, we must congratulate our Olympic flag-bearer Kirsty Coventry and the entire Zimbabwe Olympic team for their outstanding efforts at London 2012. These ladies and gentlemen not only serve as ambassadors of Zimbabwean athletics but are points of inspiration to aspiring athletes of the next generation, continent-wide. Our athletes […]