Author Archives: David Coltart
Now even the doubters can doff hats to peacemakers
Business Day 6 February 2009 By Tony Heard A CACOPHONY of sceptics. That collective noun aptly describes the underlying disbelief over the South African-led peace effort in Zimbabwe. And it will persist. This correspondent has some personal experience of it, because last year in Business Day he ventured a test swim against this particular tide. […]
Liberalise CIO, says Coltart
Zimbabwe Times 6th February 2009 By Raymond Maingire HARARE –David Coltart, the Senator for Khumalo representing the Mutambara-led MDC, has called for the liberalization of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and the Attorney General’s (AG) office, saying they have been used as partisan institutions to entrench President Robert Mugabe’s rule. As parliamentarians across the political […]
Bill sails through
The Herald 6 February 2009 By Zvamaida Murwira CONSTITUTION of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 19) Bill that seeks to give legal effect to the framework of the inclusive Government was unanimously passed by both the House of Assembly and Senate yesterday. The Assembly passed the Bill with a margin of 184-0 with the Senate giving it […]
Zimbabwe Senate passes constitutional bill for inclusive government
www.chinaview.cn 2009-02-06 HARARE, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwe’s senate on Thursday passed Constitutional Amendment Number 19, paving the way for the establishment of an inclusive government. The bill now awaits the signature of President Robert Mugabe to enact it into law after 72 senators who are in the House voted for its passage with no […]
Zimbabwe Opposition Agrees To Form Unity Government
Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 31, 2009 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five-month impasse that had paralyzed the government as a humanitarian and economic crisis […]
Rivals agree to form government in Zimbabwe
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Saturday, 31 January , 2009 08:12:00 Reporter: Andrew Geoghegan ELIZABETH JACKSON: It’s taken almost most five months of wrangling but Zimbabwe’s Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has agreed to form government with his bitter rival Robert Mugabe. The agreement comes as Zimbabwe’s economic and humanitarian crisis deepens. Cholera has now killed more than […]
Zimbabwe Opposition Agrees To Form Unity Government
The Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 31, 2009 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five-month impasse that had paralyzed the government as a humanitarian and economic […]
Hope is on the way
HOPE IS ON THE WAY By David Coltart 20th January 2009 I have just finished celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama by watching it on television with my family. On a day when there is so much gloom in my beloved Zimbabwe – the legacy of decades of oppression – I found the entire […]
Staring down the barrel
Mail and Guardian Homepage By Jason Moyo January 16 2009 The future of Zimbabwe’s power-sharing agreement will likely be decided on Sunday when the national executive of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) meets to decide whether to join President Robert Mugabe in a unity government. Meanwhile, Parliament is expected to resume sitting on […]
Joining Govt only option available to main MDC – Coltart
Zimdaily 12 January 2009 ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Senator David Coltart of the Arthur Mutambara-led MDC says the main MDC must join government saying there is no other viable non-violent option open to Zimbabweans. “The combined MDC should join the transitional government under protest and reserve its right to withdraw from the government if need […]