Author Archives: David Coltart
David Coltart’s New Year message for 2017
Senator David Coltart 31st December 2016 I would like to wish all genuine Zimbabwean patriots and those who support the Zimbabwean struggle for democracy throughout the world a peaceful, productive and prosperous New Year. 2016 has been a difficult year for Zimbabweans with the economy in free fall and the country rudderless. It seems almost […]
Mnangagwa denies Gukurahundi role
Newsday 19 December 2016 By Blessed Mhlanga VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has denied accusations he played an active role in the Gukurahundi massacres, which reportedly claimed over 20 000 lives in Matabeleland and Midlands regions in the 1980s. Speaking in a recent interview with United Kingdom-based magazine New States Man, Mnangagwa said reports linking him to […]
Mugabe’s State of the Nation Address, National Budget Keeps Nation Hanging
Financial Gazette By Andrew Kunambura 15 December 2016 LISTENING to both President Robert Mugabe’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) and Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s 2017 National Budget presentation last week, many were left wondering what to make of the two. The SONA, presented two days ahead of the budget, was perhaps […]
Bloomberg.com include “The Struggle Continues” as one of its “Best Books of 2016”
Bloomberg.com By Julie Verhage and Simon Kennedy 8 December 2016 Bloomberg.com has included David Coltart’s “The Struggle Continues – 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe”, at the instance of its contributor Roland Rudd, the Chairman of Finsbury, as one of its best books of 2016. Rudd wrote the following: ““Coltart’s is a remarkable book by […]
Zimbabwe ‘has the strongest currency in Africa’: state media
News 24 7 December 2016 Harare – “This is a fact: Zimbabwe has the strongest currency in Africa”. Sounds unbelievable – but that’s what the official Herald newspaper claimed on Wednesday, hours after President Robert Mugabe resolutely avoided the vexed topic of bond notes in his State of the Nation Address (SONA). In its lead […]
Parallels with Mugabe’s Zimbabwe illustrate the dangers of a Trump presidency
Mail and Guardian Africa By Brooks Marmon 23 November 2016 If Zimbabwe serves as an example of the way the US will go, Americans should be very afraid. COMMENT Much has been made of the warm reception that United States president-elect Donald Trump has received from many African leaders. An enthusiastic pro-Trump editorial in Zimbabwe’s […]
Zimbabwean activists urge population to remain non-violent after attack on pro-democracy leaders
TheZimbabwedaily.com By Elsa Buchanan 19 November 2016 LONDON – Zimbabwean pro-democracy activists have urged citizens to commit to nonviolent action after supporters were assaulted and abducted this morning ahead of a planned demonstration dubbed #MunhuWeseMuRoad. Sources on the ground, who could not be identified for fear for their safety, told IBTimes UK that men abducted […]
Zimbabwe’s former minister David Coltart warns nation faces perfect storm
IB Times 10 November 2016 As the much-anticipated 2018 elections loom, Zimbabwe’s tortured politics face difficult times. IBTimes UK met with David Coltart, Zimbabwe’s former Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, who spoke of his fears of a perfect storm. After almost four decades of quelled frustrations under Mugabes iron-fisted reign, a flurry of […]
Mugabe decrees introduction of ‘new currency’
Africareview.com By Kitsepile Nyathi 1 November 2016 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has declared bond notes legal tender amid charges by experts that the intervention was unconstitutional. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced in May that it would introduce the currency linked to the US dollar. The announcement at the height of serious shortages of […]
Zimbabwe faces ‘a national health crisis’ as lack of drugs worsens spread of cholera and typhoid
IB Times 26 October 2016 An acute and growing shortage of medicines in Zimbabwe is aggravating the spread of deadly infections typhoid and cholera across the country, as the ailing economy worsens the nation’s failing public health system. Zimbabweans are still reeling from the economic and humanitarian crisis of 2008/2009 when more than 4,280 died […]