Author Archives: David Coltart
Speech by David Coltart: Accountability Problems in Zimbabwean Politics
Accountability Problems in Zimbabwean Politics By David Coltart Address given to the Institute of Bankers: Bulawayo Branch Tuesday 19th May 1992 Accountability is a concept very close to the hearts of all bankers. Not only are you concerned to ensure that your clients are always accountable for their actions to you when they owe you […]
Understanding the Origin of Crime
PRISON FELLOWSHIP ZAMBIA: CONSULTATION ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM – 26 to 28 MARCH 1992 INTRODUCTION At the outset let me say what a great privilege and honour it is for me to be here today not. For many of us in Zimbabwe who have been battling with grave human rights abuses and the oppression […]
Speech by David Coltart: An Introduction to ESAP: Zimbabwe 1992
An Introduction to ESAP: Zimbabwe 1992 By David Coltart 31st January 1992 Danish Volunteer Service Development Workers Meeting, Maphisa It is a great pleasure to have been asked to address you today, but before commencing I should warn you that not much weight should be attached to what I and Jonathan Moyo have to say […]
Structural Adjustment, Human Rights and the Budget
Speech given to Open Forum at Bulawayo The phrase Structural Adjustment is being bandied about so much these days that it seems that it has always been with us. Whilst it is in vogues phrase it is in fact a new one in Zimbabwe at least. The same does not apply to the rest of […]
Building NGO’s in Zimbabwe
Legal Aid and Human Rights Group: Session 4 Paper Presented by Mr David Coltart, Legal Resources Foundation, Zimbabwe Empowering People, Civil Associations and Democratic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 12 – 16 August 1991, International Conference Centre, Arusha, Tanzania INTRODUCTION: Brief History of Legal Aid and Human Rights Groups in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe was colonised 100 years […]
Speech by David Coltart: What the Businessman Can Do Towards the Success of the Structural Adjustment Programme
What the Businessman Can Do Towards the Success of the Structural Adjustment Programme By David Coltart Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe 2nd July 1991 I have been asked to give a short talk this afternoon on what the businessman can do towards the success of the Structural Adjustment Programme. Lawyers, as you […]
Economic Liberalisation: Political Protectionism?
ZIMBABWE’S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Presentation arranged by K P M G Peat Marwick : Bulawayo INTRODUCTION I have entitled my talk today “Economic Liberalisation: Political Protectionism”. My thesis is that the success of structural adjustment, trade liberalisation and the economy generally will, in the long term, stand or fall on the degree of genuine democracy brought […]
Human Rights Violations: Matabeleland
Heads of Denominations, Bulawayo Letter addressed to: Senator J F Mudende, Governor, Matabeleland North Dear Senator Mudende We refer to our meeting with you towards the end of November 1985 when we said we would let you have a report on human rights violations in Matabeleland. Please now find enclosed our report. The cases cited […]
Human Rights Report: Matabeleland
Bulawayo Legal Practitioner’s Association Letter addressed to: The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Dear Sir RE: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT: MATABELAND At the Annual General Meeting of the Bulawayo Legal Practitioner’s Association, held on Friday the 29th November 1985, concern was expressed regarding widespread violations of human rights in Matabeleland. It was unanimously agreed […]
Telegram from Robert Mugabe to David Coltart – 19 August 1981
Dear Mr Coltart Replying to your message of the 17th August – for which many thanks, I am happy and encouraged to learn that Zimbabwean students at Cape Town University are ready and willing to return home upon completion of their studies to serve their country. As you are no doubt aware, we in government […]