Author Archives: David Coltart
Cellphones in schools: Who is to blame?
Sunday News By Vusumuzi Dube 9 October 2011 A cellphone is a gadget that was originally designed to make communication easier and more efficient but like all inventions made for the good of mankind, it can be abused. In recent media reports, school children have been reported to be largely taking advantage of this gadget […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09
Magnificent rain – purple skies to match the Jacarandas – Zimbabwe at its finest – hopefully this will now stop the bushfires # There is nothing quite like a Zimbabwean thunderstorm at night – stunning lightening and the freshest air the world can offer – spectacular! # Tutu consistently gets it right: on apartheid, on […]
Turn violent groups into cleaning brigades
The Standard By Navanji Madanhire 9 October 2011 I got the missive below from Marshall Ngwenya a reader from Bulawayo: Thanks for your piece on litter. I stay in Bulawayo and it’s not any different. I see very beautiful smartly-dressed ladies throwing used tissue-paper on the pavement and they just spoil their outlook. I hope […]
US$10m secondary school textbooks ready for distribution
The Herald By Felex Share 7 October 2011 Government has finished printing eight million textbooks worth US$10 million to be distributed to secondary schools next month. This will help Government achieve its target of one textbook per pupil for the six main subjects – Mathematics, English, Science, Geography, History and indigenous languages. Education, Sport, Arts and […]
Muckraker: You don’t have to be racist to be a patriot
Indepdendent 6 October 2011 How many readers have heard of the “Cuban Fiveâ€? It would be surprising if you haven’t because the state media in Zimbabwe has given them an inordinate amount of publicity. The five were arrested in Miami in 1998 and charged with espionage. The five claim they were helpful to the US […]
Kunonga evicts teachers in Mhondoro a week before exams
SW Radio Africa By Tererai Karimakwenda 6 October, 2011 The ex-communicated Anglican Bishop, Nolbert Kunonga, has struck another blow at the Church Province of Central Africa (CPCA), by serving eviction notices on all the teachers at St Mark’s in Mhondoro, where hundreds of students are due to take exams next week. False Bishop, Nolbert Kunonga […]
Grave containing up to 60 people found at Zimbabwe school
The Guardian By David Smith 5 October 2011 Remains thought to belong to victims of 1980s Gukurahundi massacre discovered after football pitch caves in. A mass grave containing up to 60 victims of a massacre by President Robert Mugabe’s troops has reportedly been discovered by children playing football at a Zimbabwe school. The pupils stumbled […]
Zimbabwe children ‘condemned to life without education’
BBC 5 October 2011 Thousands of children in Zimbabwe, who were forcibly evicted from their homes six years ago, are still not receiving proper education, a rights group says. The government had promised 700,000 families a better life when it demolished slums in major cities in 2005 under Operation Murambatsvina. But Amnesty International says many […]
Zambia’s white vice-president hails ‘cosmopolitan’ new era
The Guardian By David Smith 4 October 2011 Guy Scott says post-colonial condition is behind Zambia and urges other African states to move beyond race. Guy Scott believes his appointment could push other African nations to come to terms with their colonial histories. He is outspoken, has the popular touch and just became the second […]
Sundowns braced for Mushekwi, Mwanjali bans
New Zimbabwe.com 4 October 2011 Sundowns boss Patrice Motsepe says the club will accept any punishment meted out to his players Method Mwanjali and Nyasha Mushekwi after they were named in a ZIFA report into match fixing. FIFA has encouraged ZIFA to impose severe penalties, including life bans, on close to 80 players, coaches and […]