Author Archives: David Coltart

Newsday By Pride Gonde 29 March 2011 A senior Zimbabwe Publishing House (ZPH) official has accused Education, Art, Sports and Culture minister David Coltart of abuse of office after he allegedly unilaterally awarded a printing tender to one company, Longman (Zimbabwe) Publishers. But contacted for comment Monday night, Coltart said: “The tender was awarded by Dr […]

Newsday By Tatenda Chitagu 28 March 2011 Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou has labelled Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart “a toothless bulldog” after his failure to stop Zanu PF from using schools as centres for its political activities. This follows countrywide reports that Zanu PF had invaded schools […]

Sunday Mail Sunday, 27 March 2011 By Goodwill Zunidza A MAJOR football indaba is looming after the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart, summoned the entire Zifa board for a meeting last week where he indicated his desire to have their never-ending problems brought to heel. Coltart hosted the football chiefs in […]

Newsday Comment March 26 2011 Recently, a senior education official in Mashonaland East was in the news for the wrong reasons. Chikomba district education director Ngoni Simon Mujuru told school heads in his district that his ministry would deploy war veterans to teach history to pupils and to lecture on how they used to dodge […]

Newsday By Sports Editor March 26 2011 Zifa convenes its watershed general assembly on Saturday since the current board chaired by Cuthbert Dube took office last year, with key administration issues and the Asiagate scandal likely to dominate the proceedings. The meeting takes place after a board meeting which also took place yesterday and on […]

Newsday By Moses Matenga 26 March 2011 A senior education official in Chikomba District, Mashonaland East province has declared all schools in the district would on Saturday be used as signing centres for the anti-sanctions petition and that all headmasters are required to act as “polling officers”. This is despite a directive by Education, Sport, […]

Telegraph 25 March 2011 By Roland Rudd Two years of economic recovery and relative peace in Zimbabwe may be the calm before the storm, writes Roland Rudd. Britain has recently invested heavily in flooding Zimbabwe’s schools with 13 million new books. Since David Coltart became the Education Minister for the faction of the Movement for […]

Herald 24 March 2011 Herald Reporter Government will soon print textbooks to ease shortages in secondary schools, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart has said. Launching the Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Programme in Chitungwiza yesterday, Minister Coltart said a survey was being conducted to assess the different needs of schools across Zimbabwe. “A survey […]

Nehanda Radio By Besester Gomo 24 March 2011 Zimbabwe’s Education, Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Senator David Coltart has confessed to being a Highlanders fan. Coltart said this while sharing a light moment with officials from bitter rivals Dynamos at his offices. Dynamos officials led by the board chairman Richard Chiminya arranged the meeting to […]

Telegraph By Telegraph staff and agencies 22 March 2011 Pakistan’s World Cup win over Australia has restored the team’s battered image and boosted their credentials as champions-in-waiting, according to captain Shahid Afridi. Pakistan beat Australia by four wickets to end the defending champions’ unbeaten 34-match streak in the World Cup stretching back to 1999. It […]