Author Archives: David Coltart
Coltart: My main focus is not private schools
Financial Gazette 5 March 2009 By Njabulo Ncube AFTER a year of industrial action, public schools burst into life on Monday following an agreement between government and the two unions representing teachers – the Zimbabwe Teachers Union (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ). The Financial Gazette Political Editor, Njabulo Ncube (NN), sought […]
Learning resumes at Zimbabwean schools
Zimonline By Patricia Mpofu Wednesday 04 March 2009 HARARE – Learning resumed this week at schools across Zimbabwe as teachers heeded calls by the new unity government to return to work after several months striking for more pay and better working conditions. Education Minister David Coltart, who met teachers’ unions immediately after he was appointed […]
Zimbabwe Education in Desperate Circumstances
VOA By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 04 March 2009 Like everything else in Zimbabwe, education has felt the impact of the crisis of government under President Robert Mugabe and of an economy contracting at a record rate. The advent of the unity government has revealed the scale of devastation in a sector that is key to […]
School heads allegedly in voucher scam
Sunday Mail 1 March 2009 From Bulawayo Bureau SOME headmasters are allegedly taking advantage of the absence of teachers who skipped the country to cash in on their vouchers, it has emerged. Teachers were awarded the US$100 vouchers while the Government tries to source more funds early this month. According to impeccable sources, some headmasters […]
Zimbabwe’s Students, on Their Own – Many Schools Are Closed; Others Lack Teachers
The Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, February 28, 2009 HARARE, Zimbabwe — On many weekdays last year, Kundai Kanyemba, 16, donned his high school uniform, sat in the library and studied textbooks titled “Geography Today,” “Focus on English” and “General Mathematics,” tattered volumes he hoped would prepare him for year-end […]
June 2008 results out
The Herald 28 February 2009 THE June 2008 Ordinary and Advanced Level results are ready and the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council is urging candidates to collect them from their schools or other centres. Zimsec director Mr Happy Ndanga yesterday said the results had been sent to Zimsec provincial offices from where the schools would collect […]
Call back our professionals in the diaspora
The Chronicle Comment 27 February 2009 THE Government should consider calling back professionals who are living in the Diaspora, as the availability of skilled human resources plays a pivotal role in the process of rebuilding the economy. The Inclusive Government has put its main emphasis on reviving the economy, as the best way to improve […]
Is Chamisa in government?
Zimbabwe Guardian Terry Mufambi ― Opinion 27 February 2009 DEAR EDITOR – Mr Nelson Chamisa was a regular interviewee on media outlets in the United Kingdom before he was Minister of Information Communications Technology (ICT). I am concerned that he still features on programs threatening that the MDC-T party will move out of the inclusive […]
The cost, in rands, of a Zim bail-out
The Mail and Guardian MAYA FISHER-FRENCH JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – February 27 2009 Although South Africa can technically afford to give Zimbabwe the R6-billion that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has reportedly asked for, it would have to be part of a broader financial bail-out package if South Africa does not want to throw good money […]
Schools ordered not to turn away pupils
The Herald 27 February 2009 THE Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has ordered schools not to turn away children for failing to pay fees while awaiting a Cabinet decision next week on recommendations on a new fee structure. In an interview yesterday, Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart confirmed the […]