Author Archives: David Coltart
The Mugabe Regime – tyranny about to end?
David Coltart South African President Thabo Mbeki in a recent State visit to Canada assured Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien that talks were taking place in Zimbabwe between the Mugabe regime and the opposition MDC and that a settlement was likely soon. These comments follow similar confident assurances given by President Mbeki to President George […]
FALL TO RISE, SLEEP TO WAKE
When I woke up this morning and thought of the thousands of Zimbabweans who confronted tyranny with their votes this weekend I was reminded of Robert Browning’s words: “One who never turned his back but marched breast forward; Never doubted clouds would break; Never dreamed though right were worsted wrong would triumph; Held we fall […]
Mugabe’s new palace in a land of hunger
The Daily Telegraph 27th August 2003 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare Builders are putting the finishing touches to a retirement home for President Robert Mugabe that will rival the most extravagant of African leaders’ residences. The project is the latest sign of how his regime is prospering while vast numbers of Zimbabweans are close to […]
Report-Back Meeting By The Hon. David Coltart M.P. On 27 June, 2003 (Up-Dated 12 August 2003)
Mr Coltart said that it was a reflection of the state of our “democracy” that the last report-back meeting scheduled to be held in Barham Green had been banned. Two other meetings: one a Christian meeting and the other to be hosted by Bulawayo Dialogue had both been similarly banned. The last six months had […]
Mugabe ‘cannot pay his security forces’
The Daily Telegraph 15th June 2003 By David Harrison in Harare Zimbabwe’s security forces, the front-line enforcers of President Robert Mugabe’s brutal regime, are being paid only a fraction of their salaries as the country’s economic crisis deepens. Many soldiers and police officers, whose loyalty has traditionally been bought with high pay and other perks, […]
Coltart, David; Bulawayo South Candidate 2000
Inter-parliamentary Union In May 2000 when Mr. Coltart attempted to register his candidacy for the MDC party, the Registrar General attempted to bar his nomination claiming he was a British citizen and therefore, ineligible to be nominated. Mr. Coltart was required to prove he was not a British citizen and was a Zimbabwean citizen. In […]
The full story of what is going on in Zimbabwe
Allister Sparks The original plan to bowler-hat Mugabe and put Emmerson Mnangagwa in charge of Zimbabwe has been stymied because the opposition MDC won’t play ball as the ANC wanted, but the plan may now be implemented unilaterally with the Commercial Farmers Union in the token partnership role The first indication that Robert Mugabe might […]
England call for Harare switch
The Daily Telegraph 26th January 2003 By Scyld Berry and Neil Manthorpe in Harare England’s cricketers will declare their deep reluctance about going to Zimbabwe for their World Cup match on Feb 13 in a statement to be issued on their behalf by Richard Bevan, the managing director of the Professional Cricketers’ Association. The statement […]
Politics has no place in sport – so boycott the World Cup
Daily Telepgraph by: David Coltart The decision of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on December 19 to allow Zimbabwe to host World Cup matches has aroused fierce debate in Britain. A similar debate has raged within Zimbabwe for several months, and has threatened to split the cricketing fraternity. As a passionate supporter of Zimbabwean cricket, […]
Open Letter to Mugabe
SW Radio Africa by Siphosami Malunga Dear Mr. President I read with utter dismay what was ascribed to be your comments relating to David Coltart and Roy Bennett as reported in the Herald of 5 September 2002. Those comments have motivated me to set the record straight and jolt your memory somewhat about the past. […]