Author Archives: David Coltart

New Zimbabwe.com 27 October 2010 By Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana THE historical revival of PF ZAPU and the formal re-entrance of Dumiso Dabengwa in the troubled Zimbabwean political landscape are both very grave matters of history. Very grave, first because of what ZAPU is, has gone through and aims to achieve in the contested Zimbabwean historical […]

www.zimcricket.org 26 October 2010 It’s been outstanding.”  That is the verdict of the New Zealand A manager, Mark O’Donnell, on his team’s recent tour of Zimbabwe.  New Zealand A played three four-day matches against Zimbabwe A and won the series two-nil with one match drawn. The weather was very hot, but they handled that well […]

Newsday By Fortune Moyo 25 October 2010 Patricia Nabanyama, the widow of Patrick Nabanyama, is pushing for her husband’s alleged abductors to be charged with murder, after he was declared dead last week. Nabanyama, who was abducted under mysterious circumstances from his home in June 2000, was declared dead by Bulawayo provincial magistrate, Rose Dube. […]

The Zimdiaspora By Job Sikhala www.zimdiaspora.com 25 October 2010 “There is only one President. Hanzi dai ndakaconsultwa”. These words came from the colossal and unmatched Zanu PF strongman and Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe. He was addressing a small group of no more than one hundred very old women of his same age who looked senile and starving at […]

Herald 25 October 2010 From George Maponga in MASVINGO GOVERNMENT is in the process of acquiring about 70 vehicles worth nearly US$1,3 million for senior education officers to improve monitoring schools throughout Zimbabwe. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said the vehicles would be distributed to senior education officials in an attempt to […]

Standard http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 24 October 2010 By Caiphas Chimhete A Harare headmaster is suing four teachers for US$150 000 after they allegedly wrote to the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture accusing him of looting school funds. Vainona High School headmaster David Makanza, through his lawyers Muvirimi and Associates, said the allegations by the teachers were highly […]

Newsday 21 October 2010 By Mernat Mafirakurewa Last month Finance minister Tendai Biti revealed shocking statistics that ministers in the inclusive government were ignorant of technology with a mere 10% bothering to open and use e-mail addresses. He said some ministers even raised a storm over the amount of money allocated to the Information Communication […]

www.nzfgw.org.nz By Esther Watt, NZFGW Fellow 21 October 2010 My year at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, studying for the LLM has been amazing. Academically, the year has been challenging and very rewarding. I took four papers relating to areas of my interest. Although the LLM paper in which I had hoped to write my thesis was unavailable this year, I was able to examine key aspects of […]

Newsday 20 October 2010 By Phillip Chidavaenzi and Veneranda Langa Within the forbidding prison complex, Rudo Masara (not her real name), sits silently, her vacant eyes gazing into the future, now just a wasteland. For a year now, she has been in this grim dungeon of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, to which society has banished […]

Newsday By Fortune Moyo 19 October 2010 Patrick Nabanyama, who disappeared after being abducted at the beginning of Zimbabwe’s political turmoil in 2000, has finally been declared dead. The declaration was officially made on August 11, but the announcement was made by his wife Patricia Nabanyama only Tuesday. She immediately applied for private prosecution of […]