Author Archives: David Coltart
Zimbabwe return to Tests against Bangladesh, unpaid and uncontracted
Guardian.co.uk 3rd August 2011 By Andy Bull While the world’s attention is focused on what is happening at the top of the Test rankings, there are about to be some intriguing developments at the bottom. Zimbabwe start their first Test in six years on Thursday, against Bangladesh in Harare. At any other time their return […]
Miners forced to buy Zanu (PF) cards
Zimbabwean 2 August 2011 By John Chimunhu Zanu (PF) militants forced workers at the targeted Mimosa Platinum Mine here to buy the unpopular party’s membership cards at extortionate prices, The Zimbabwean has learnt. Mimosa Mine is the the target for Zanu (PF) sharks, who are also demanding to be given service and supply contracts. According […]
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority Demands More Taxes From Poorly Paid Teachers
VOA 2 August 2011 By Gibbs Dube Union sources said Revenue Authority officials are visiting schools and demanding that teachers account for all of the so-called incentive payments they have received from school associations since 2009 The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority is demanding that teachers who received supplemental pay from school development associations report such income […]
Book Fair Blitz on Local Languages
Herald Chemist Mafuba 1 August 2011 ANGELINE KAMBA has had to speak six languages to a man in the street to prove that she knows her mother tongue. The chair of the Harare International Festival of the Arts revealed this during the Book Fair workshop on society and development. “When I went to park at […]
Southern winters and lunar eclipses
DFID Blogs http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2011/08/southern-winters-and-lunar-eclipses/ By Ian Attfield 1 August 2011 Contrary to popular belief, Africa can get really cold at night! I’m currently spending my first winter proper in the Southern Hemisphere, with dry sunny days and crisp nights under the Southern Cross – and temperatures plummeting to zero in Harare. When I told people I […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-31
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“COPAC: A waste of money. People Driven Constitution: Impossible”
www.bulawayo24.com By Shephard Dube 2011 July 31Â What do they mean by a ‘people driven constitution’? “From what I know a constitution is meant to constitute rules about what the structure of government should be and what powers it may and may not exercise. A constitution authorizes a government to exist; it dictates that government’s […]
West propping dictatorial regimes — Coltart
Newsday By Bridgette Bugalo 30 July 2011 Education minister David Coltart has accused the West of encouraging and appeasing dictators in Africa. Coltart, who is MDC MP for Khumalo in Bulawayo, made the startling remarks while delivering the annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom at New South Wales Parliamentary Building in Sydney, Australia, on […]
Zimbabwe’s education sector gone awry
Newsday By Richard Chidza 30 July 2011 Once revered as the best on the continent with graduates coming out of our institutions sought-after commodities the world over, Zimbabwe’s education sector has gone off the rails and something has gone awfully wrong. From schools demanding that financially weary parents pay through the nose for school fees, […]
West partly to blame – Coltart
Zimbabwean By Vusimusi Bhebhe 30 July 2011 The West should take some of the blame for propping up Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe whose human rights excesses they conveniently ignored since the 1980s, Education Minister David Coltart said last week. In an address to the Annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom in Sydney, Australia, last […]