Author Archives: David Coltart
Open Letter to Mugabe – by Siphosami Malunga
SW Radio Africa – letter from 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 […]
Mugabe must face trial for his crimes
The Telegraph (UK) One of my Parliamentary colleagues in the Movement for Democratic Change is Fletcher Dulini’Ncube. A veteran campaigner for human rights and a former detainee in the Rhodesian era, he is diabetic. Last November Fletcher was detained by the Mugabe regime on trumped-up charges and held in solitary confinement for over a month […]
Zimbabwe in 2002
The New York Times In the last two years Zimbabwe has been transformed into a state that increasingly resembles Cambodia under Pol Pot. The government seems set on adding famine to the list of oppressions visited on the nation. In May, a law was passed decreeing that any commercial farmer who continued to farm 45 […]
Zimbabwe’s Man-Made Famine
The New York Times In the last two years Zimbabwe has been transformed into a state that increasingly resembles Cambodia under Pol Pot. The government seems set on adding famine to the list of oppressions visited on the nation. In May, a law was passed decreeing that any commercial farmer who continued to farm 45 […]
MDC statement regarding Gwanda food distribution
The MDC has been made aware of further evidence of the illegitimate Mugabe regime using food as political weapon in the Gwanda district of Matabeleland South Province. On Friday the 12th July 2002 a meeting of the “Gwanda drought relief and food distribution committee” was convened in Gwanda. It is pertinent to note that Gwanda […]
Opposition seeks new extension of vote
The Daily Telegraph 10th March 2002 Anonymous ZIMBABWE’S opposition party today again asked a High Court to extend voting in presidential elections, citing continued delays at urban polling stations. “We have applied to the High Court for another 24 hours extension of the polls. We have also asked that the registrar general and those who […]
MDC rallies are cancelled as poll violence spreads
The Daily Telegraph 28th January 2002 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare INTENSIFYING violence yesterday forced Zimbabwe’s opposition to abandon all its public rallies in the presidential election campaign. The decision by the Movement for Democratic Change came after one of its supporters died and several others were critically injured at the weekend. The shadow justice […]
Party rebel puts Mugabe media curb on hold
The Daily Telegraph 17th January 2002 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare A MEDIA Bill intended by President Robert Mugabe to silence his critics was put on hold yesterday after a revolt in parliament from within the ranks of his own Zanu-PF party. Dr Edison Zvobgo, a Zanu-PF founder who heads the parliamentary legal committee, delayed […]
It’s Time to Complete the Change: A New Year’s Message – 2002
In June 2001 I wrote that the political tide in Zimbabwe had turned and that the process of change was inevitable. Nothing has happened since then to alter my view except that we are now only two months away from a watershed election that will enable Zimbabweans to vote into power a man who has […]
David Coltart and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Background Statement David Coltart was elected to Zimbabwe’s parliament in June 2000, representing the Bulawayo South constituency for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and became MDC spokesperson for legal affairs. For eighteen years prior to entering parliament he was an outspoken advocate for human rights and had emerged as one of the leading human […]