Author Archives: David Coltart
Cultural cricketers gather in Scotland
www.cricketscotland.com 9 August 2010 In Tales from Afghanistan on Sunday 15 August, Magnus Linklater is in discussion with James Fergusson, author of Taliban and former Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent, and Tim Albone, director of Out of the Ashes, a film that captures the uplifting story about the Afghan cricket’s team, and hears their views about what lies […]
Senator David Coltart’s Opening Speech at The Official Opening Of The Exhibition Of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture in China
It gives me a great sense of honour and pride to address this august gathering on the occasion of “African Cultures in Focus 2010†—Zimbabwe Culture Week and the Exhibition of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture, especially when this Exhibition of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture is held in a foreign land. At the outset however please would you […]
Education Transition Fund Sensitisation
www.unicef.org by Tapuwa L. Mutseyekwa 4 August 2010 For most people in Zimbabwe, the expression of joy and happiness are best done through music and drama. It was in this spirit that children in Bulawayo inundated the first sensitisation ceremony of the Education Transition Fund (ETF) with an array of drama, song, poem and dance. […]
Ministry proposes improvements to teachers’ conditions
Newsday by Staff Writer 3 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52 […]
Ministry proposes improvement of teachers’ lot
Newsday By Staff Writer 2 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52 […]
Ministry proposes improvement of teachers’ lot
Newsday By Staff Writer 2 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52 […]
Zimbabwe Human Rights – lest we forget
Letter from Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum 01 Aug 2010 Dear Friends, Tonight, 30.07.2010, the Forum will launch, at a high profile event in Bulawayo, the second volume of our “Taking Transitional Justice to the People Outreach Reportâ€. The launch will take place this evening at 6.00pm in the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel. Key speakers will […]
U Tube link to David Coltart’s interview on BBC Hardtalk originally aired on 20 July 2010
U Tube 29 July 2010 Stephen Sackur asks David Coltart the hard questions on what the GPA has done for Zimbabwe. (There are 3 parts to the interview on Youtube) BBC Hard Talk on Zimbabwe 1of3 www.youtube.com Interview of David Coltart, Zimbabwean cabinet minister. Cut and paste this link: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUwSd4QAmX4Y&h=eed93
Building a Jerusalem in Zimbabwe’s green and pleasant land
The Guardian By David Smith 29 July 2010 Place names, schools, eloquent oratories and, of course, cricket can make Zimbabwe seem the most English of African countries High tea and cakes to the strains of a grand piano. Rooms with names such as Balmoral, Edinburgh, Windsor, Mirabelle and Edward & Connaught. An oak-panelled grill that […]
The Commonwealth and Africa
Business Day by Kaye Whiteman 29 July 2010 At the risk of readers muttering ‘there he goes againâ€, I find myself making a case for another look at the Commonwealth and its works, even though I wrote extensively last November on the Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). If I return to the topic it is […]