Author Archives: David Coltart
You can help Zimbabwe says opposition MP
Sydneyanglicans.net An opposition MP challenging the policies of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is calling on Sydney Anglicans to help fight the abuse of human rights. The spokesperson on justice and legal affairs for the Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Mr David Coltart, spoke at St Swithun’s, Pymble, on Friday night, asking the diocese to […]
Under Siege: Human rights and the rule of law in Zimbabwe
Speech delivered at the Monash University Law Chambers, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Lecture Good evening everyone. It’s very heart-warming to see the magnificent turn out for a country which, after all, is located in the forgotten continent and a country that doesn’t have any oil or anything else like that to attract the […]
Zimbabwe opposition calls for Australian support
ABC Online Presenter: Liam Bartlett Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has called on Australia to use its influence with the United States, Britain and Asia to indict dictator Robert Mugabe for crimes against humanity. David Coltart is the spokesperson for justice from the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe is currently touring the Eastern States of […]
Statement of David Coltart : MDC National Executive meeting – 15 July 2005
I regret that I am unable to attend the meeting. However I am of the view that the topic being discussed at this meeting is of such great importance to the future of the MDC that I have requested that this statement be read out on my behalf at the meeting. The MDC’s commitment to […]
New Zealand earn plaudits for taking stand against corrupt Zimbabwe
The Daily Telegraph 11th July 2005 By Kate Hoey In Bulawayo, just a short walk from the Matatabeleland cricket ground I watched as security police forced the poor to knock down their own homes. Further north and within a few yards of the the Mashonaland Cricket Association’s home ground, Harare Sports Club, I saw families […]
Homeless and hopeless: bulldozers carve out a bleak new reality for poor Zimbabweans
The Guardian In a special report from Harare, Duncan Campbell witnesses Mugabe’s drive to clear the makeshift homes of hundreds of thousands of people The giant prehistoric Balancing Rocks that stand 10 miles from the centre of Harare are one of the great symbols of Zimbabwe, etched on to banknotes and pictured in every tourist […]
Mugabe attacks Blair and turns back on ‘useless’ Commonwealth
Scotland on Sunday ROBERT Mugabe has ruled out ever trying to get back into the “useless” Commonwealth during a blistering attack on Tony Blair and his “gay gangsters”. In his first interview for more than a year, Mugabe also insisted he had discussed the issue at length during a meeting with Prince Charles, where he […]
The MDC’s decision to attend Parliament
There has been considerable controversy surrounding the MDC’s decision to have its 41 elected members of Parliament sworn in and participate in Parliament. A variety of criticisms have been made but most focus on arguments that the decision is a betrayal of those losing MDC candidates who had their seats stolen from them by ZANU […]
Mugabe wages war on poor and jobless
Sunday Independent (SA) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In the course of this week, thousands of poor Zimbabweans living in Harare, Bulawayo and other urban centres have had their lives destroyed by an increasingly vicious, brutal and paranoid regime. On the pretext of a “clean-up”, the regime’s police and army have systematically gone through our cities […]
Harassment of Coltart catalogued
The Zimbabwean Here we continue with the REDRESS report on human rights abuses experienced by opposition MPs and election candidates. This is what happened to David Coltart, Bulawayo South MP, and MDC Shadow Minister and Secretary for Legal Affairs. Harassment of Coltart began early on. In May 2000 when he attempted to register his candidacy […]