Author Archives: David Coltart
Zimbabwe hints at Howard’s ICC chances
The Age 18 June 2010 ZIMBABWE’S Minister for Sport, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail when his country votes on John Howard’s International Cricket Council candidacy. Coltart has been in Melbourne and Canberra this week to meet Cricket Australia and the federal government, discussing plans to resume an exchange of cricket tours with Australia […]
Interview with David Coltart: Zimbabwe’s fragile coalition
ABC Radio Australia PM, 18 June 2010 With reporter Mark Colvin MARK COLVIN: Should Australian cricket thaw out its relations with Zimbabwe, two years on from the election that brought in a power-sharing agreement there? Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF Party lost the election of 2008, and after much negotiation were forced to share power […]
Australia to renew ties with Zimbabwe
AFP 17 June 2010 SYDNEY — Australia could renew cricketing ties with Zimbabwe next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams, the African country’s Sports Minister David Coltart has revealed. The Zimbabwe A team will likely tour Australia in mid-2011, the first step in an agreement that would also see an […]
Zimbabwe closer to Howard consensus
Sydney Morning Herald 17 June 2010 By Daniel Brettig AAP Zimbabwe’s Minister for Sport, David Coltart, hopes common sense will prevail in the case of his country’s vote for the John Howard ICC candidacy. But like everything else in the slow, precarious regeneration of his stricken nation, nothing is guaranteed. Coltart has been in Melbourne […]
Missing MDC activist’s wife wants husband declared dead
The Zim Diaspora 17 June 2010 From Our Special Correspondent in Bulawayo THE wife of missing MDC activist Patrick Nabanyama – abducted by Zanu PF thugs from Bulawayo during the night in the run up to the 2000 parliamentary elections has engaged lawyers to try and get a death certificate for her husband – now presumed […]
Boxing Probe Findings Expected Next Week
Herald 17 June 2010 By Fatima Bulla Harare — EDUCATION, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart is next week expected to reveal findings of a probe into the operations of boxing in this country after a report, complete with recommendations, was submitted to him, a senior official said last week. The Principal Director responsible […]
Interview with David Coltart on ABC Grandstand Sport
ABC Radio Grandstand Sport, 17 June 2010 Interview with David Coltart http://www.abc.net.au/news/audio/2010/06/19/2931563.htm
Zimbabwe aim to resume ties with Australia
ESPN Cricinfo 17 June 2010 Australia could host a team from Zimbabwe, for the first time in over seven years, following a meeting between Cricket Australia and the Zimbabwe sports minister, David Coltart. If the tour, tentatively set for mid-2011 takes off, it could be the first step towards a reciprocal arrangement of A tours […]
Zimbabwe Claims Proteas anti-Howard
Herald Sun 17 June 2010 Zimbabwe has denied it was trying to block former Prime Minister John Howard becoming president of the International Cricket Council. A Government minister stopped short yesterday of saying so, but claimed cricket officials were pointing the finger at powerful neighbour South Africa as the leader of the anti-Howard charge. The […]
Interview with David Coltart: Zimbabwe’s Transitional Inclusive Government
ABC Radio Australia Late Night Live, 17 June 2010 Philip Adams interviews David Coltart on Zimbabwe’s Transitional Inclusive Government http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2010/2929838.htm