Author Archives: David Coltart
Livestock is fair trade for school fees
SA Times Moses Mudzwiti August 14, 2009 ZIMBABWE Education Minister David Coltart said yesterday that poor villagers could continue to pay school fees with goats, chickens and other animals. He was quizzed in Parliament on the government’s position on the acceptability of schools demanding fees in cash and kind. Coltart said there was nothing wrong […]
Teachers union says too many centres of power in education ministry
SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 12 August 2009 The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has said too many centres of power in the education ministry are behind the problems bedevilling the sector at present. The PTUZ says it is very bitter because the government has still not addressed the challenges facing teachers, despite […]
Matabeleland South students turn to gold panning
Sunday News 9th August 2009 By Lulu Brenda Harris The number of boys enrolling for education after primary school is declining in Matabeleland South as most of them skip the border to neighbouring countries while others are going into gold panning, an official has said. The Provincial Education Director (PED), Mrs Tumisang Thabela, told Sunday […]
Official Opening Speech of Senator David Coltart at 100th Anniversary celebrations of the Scouts Association of Zimbabwe
Speech by Senator David Coltart 100th Anniversay of Scout Association of Zimbabwe Gordon Park, Matopos 8th August 2009 Thank you once again for your kind introduction and thank you for inviting me to the 100th Anniversary of the Scout Association of Zimbabwe, an organization that is dear to my heart and dear to our country, […]
Herald retracts false story about MDC
30 July 2009 The Herald HARARE -The Herald newspaper was at the weekend forced to eat humble pie and retract a story in which it accused MDC ministers of absconding from official duty during the COMESA summit held early this month in Victoria Falls. Nelson Chamisa: “We call for facts to be thoroughly checked.†The […]
Publish local books
The Herald 28 July 2009 GOVERNMENT has called for local authorship of books following a decline in the publications written and published in local languages. In a speech read on his behalf by Secretary for Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Dr Stephen Mahere at the official opening of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Indaba yesterday, […]
Committee wants ZANU PF officials charged
ZimOnline By Lizwe Sebata 27 July 2009 BULAWAYO – A special parliamentary committee leading Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms wants top officials of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party prosecuted for disrupting a conference to discuss the reforms two weeks ago, one of the committee’s chairmen Douglas Mwonzora said at the weekend. Mwonzora, from Prime Minister Morgan […]
Biti behaved like Father Christmas, says teachers’ union
Zimbabwe Guardian By Ralph Mutema 27 July 2009 THE Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe has slammed Finance Minister Tendai Biti for failing to recognize the importance of teachers in his latest mid-term budget statement. In a statement released to the Zimbabwe Guardian PTUZ said they “feel highly disturbed that the Minister of Finance presented the […]
ZIBF in financial straits
Sunday Mail By Mtandazo Dube 26 July 2009 ALTHOUGH there has been a cash injection by the Culture Fund, this year’s Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF), which kicks off tomorrow and ends on Saturday, could still lack the glitz and glamour of yesteryear due to financial constraints. The money received from the Culture Fund, although […]
The See-Sawing Zimbabwean economy
ZimEye.org By Fortune-Galangwe 24 July 2009 The Zimbabwe economy is showing signs of life commensurately with the Prime Minister’s European trip which hit a brick wall where he met with European heads of state lobbying them for aid. The dollarization of the economy put an end to hyperinflation, artificial interest rates and unrealistic exchange rates. […]