Author Archives: David Coltart
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS – DAILY OPINION ROUNDUP – Zimbabwe’s National Unity
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS 25 JUly 2008 • A selection of op-eds and editorials from the U.S. and around the world. Sign up for the email alert or subscribe to the RSS feed. Obama In Berlin, U.S. Mideast Policy, and Zimbabwe’s National Unity July 25, 2008 Australian o National Unity: David Coltart of the opposition […]
GNU, TG Which way forward?
The Zimbabwe Independent Opinion By Constantine Chimakure 25 July 2008 TALKS to find a settlement to Zimbabwe’s decade-long crisis started in Pretoria this week with Zanu PF and the MDC still deeply divided over what the process should produce. The negotiations followed Monday’s momentous occasion when President Robert Mugabe and leaders of the two MDC […]
Habakkuk in Zimbabwe
Christianity Today By a Zimbabwean pastor-scholar Posted 7/24/2008 We’re hungry, angry, and depending on a sovereign God. How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? […]
Firm with licence to print Mugabe’s money
The Independent By Daniel Howden and Tom Armitage in Zurich Thursday, 24 July 2008 The Mugabe regime’s final lifeline is a small Vienna-based software company that helps it to keep printing the money it relies on for its survival, The Independent can reveal. Jura JSP, an Austro-Hungarian firm with just 50 employees, has been dealing […]
A Mugabe deal could land Britain with a dilemma
The Telegraph By David Blair 23 July 2008 A Zimbabwean opposition leader, lauded for his brave struggle against Robert Mugabe, arrives in London on an official visit as the new prime minister. Morgan Tsvangirai asks Britain to recognise his government and offer millions of pounds of aid. He urges the lifting of all sanctions and […]
Zimbabwean leaders agree to negotiations
The Washington Post By Craig Timberg Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed Monday to start urgent negotiations toward forming a new government, a first but very tentative step toward ending that nation’s political stalemate. The deal signed on national television was vague, leaving aside nearly every […]
In Conversation – Remembering Zimbabwe
Inthenews.co.uk By Alex Stevenson 22 July 2008 Lauren St John has first-hand experience of politically inspired violence in Zimbabwe. But she still loved living in the country, where awe at its natural beauty sat side by side with an all-pervasive fear of violence and retribution. Oppression still lingers today, as Ms St John knows only […]
Towards a negotiated settlement in Zimbabwe
Speech given to Bulawayo Agenda meeting: President Room, Rainbow Hotel By David Coltart Friday18 July 2008 Introduction It is appropriate for me to open my speech by conveying hearty congratulations to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday. I think I speak on behalf of all here today in wishing him continued health and happiness as […]
Brown bids to toughen European sanctions on Zimbabwean regime
The Independent By Daniel Howden, Deputy Foreign Editor Monday, 14 July 2008 Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, sought to toughen European Union sanctions against the Mugabe regime yesterday after a bruising diplomatic failure in New York, where China and Russia vetoed action on the Zimbabwe crisis from the UN Security Council. Britain will submit 36 […]
Lament for democracy in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Chicago Tribune By Paul Salopek | Chicago Tribune correspondent June 29, 2008 To a nation living on its knees, violence-plagued polls seem a death knell JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s shattered opposition released its roll call of dead last week. The list, e-mailed to the international media, was clearly prepared in haste. It contains the kind of […]