Author Archives: David Coltart

NOTE: This is the letter I wrote in reply to the letter sent to me on the 4th November 2010 which was delivered to the Association’s offices on the the 5th November 2010 5 November 2010 Mr. Mpofu Provincial Chairman Zimbabwe Liberation War Veteran Association Harare Province Cnr Jason Moyo and 4TH Street Harare Dear […]

Herald 5 November 2010 Harare — Most Government primary schools in Harare’s low-density areas are reportedly charging parents seeking Grade One places as much as US$300 for 2011 as registration fees. Investigations by The Herald yesterday also revealed that the charges do not include school fees or other levies. The charges do not even guarantee […]

NOTE: Verbatim copy of a letter written to Senator Coltart and delivered to his offices on Thursday 4th November 2010 ZIMBABWE LIBERATION WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION Harare Province Cnr Jason Moyo/ 4th Street Harare                                                             mobile 071 2 359 548 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ 04 November 2010 DAVID COLTART (Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture) AmbassadorHouse Kwame Nkrumh Avenue […]

Financial Gazette 4 November 2010 By Levi Mukarati, Senior Political Reporter THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) has formally written to President Robert Mugabe informing him of its selection of Moses Mzila Ndlovu, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as a replacement of the late Gibson Sibanda in the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and […]

Herald Opinion by Alexander Kanengoni 3 November 2010 We are used to young people of his age who, when thrust in a similar situation outside the country, find it easier to condemn their country because we all know, that is the language the West wants to hear to grant them the permission to stay. THE […]

Newsday 2 November 2010 By Lesley Moyo The saga of renowned artist Adam Madebe’s controversial statue of a nude man looking up into the sky which was pulled down from Bulawayo’s Tower Block gardens in the 1980s has sucked in Education, Sport and Culture minister Senator David Coltart. Coltart has vowed to fight for its […]

Newsday By Mernat Mafirakurewa 1 November 2010 Education, Arts, Sport and Culture minister David Coltart has equated the post-independence disturbances in Matabeleland that left an estimated 20 000 people dead, to genocide. Coltart said it was a shame that the country had failed dismally to deal with past disturbances by setting up a truth, justice […]

Zimdiaspora.com Sunday, 31 October 2010 BULAWAYO – A Zimbabwean Cabinet Minister  David Coltart says it was a shame that Zimbabwe was failing to address the Gukurahundi genocides which left 20 000 Ndebele speaking people dead inMatabeleland and Midlands provinces. Coltart said it was a shame that the country had failed dismally to deal with past disturbances by setting up a […]

Zimbabwean By Gift Phiri 30 October 2010 The 13 million textbooks donated by the UN Children’s Fund to revive the struggling public school system are not getting to schools in rural areas, a legislator told Parliament last week. Mutare South constituency representative Fred Kanzama told the House during question and answer time that two months […]

The Annual Lozikeyi Lecture By Senator David Coltart Bulawayo National Art Gallery 29 October 2010 The Lozikeyi Lecture now in its thirteenth year has been graced by the likes of Professor Terence Ranger(1998), Professor Welshman Ncube (1999), Marieke Faber Clarke (2000) Pathisa Nyathi (2001) and many other academics. Queen Lozikeyi was one of King Lobengula’s […]