Author Archives: David Coltart
The Global Search for Education: Got Mobile? Get it Right!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ By C. M. Rubin 21st September 2014 “Globally, more than 6.5 billion mobile contracts exist today. If each person has two contracts, then mobile is already in the hands of around half the world.” — Gavin Dykes The latest Education Fast Forward debate (EFF11) focused on which elements we should consider when we create […]
Statement regarding the award of host city status of the 2014 ZONE VI Games to Bulawayo
Statement regarding the award of host city status of the 2014 ZONE VI Games to Bulawayo I have noted that the Herald and Chronicle have published a story today regarding what President Mugabe is reported to have said at the launch of the ZONE VI Games yesterday at State House in Harare. The Herald includes […]
‘We are ready’
Newsday By Henry Mhara 19th September 2014 THE government says it is ready to host the 6th edition of the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Under-20 Youth Games which would be staged in Bulawayo from December 5-14 this year. This was said by Senior Minister of State in the Office of the President […]
Coltart: Improve Existing Schools Before Building New Ones
Voice of America By Sithandekile Mhlanga 15th September 2014 Former Education Minister David Coltart says contracting Chinese companies to build schools in the country constitutes a misallocation of funds. Educationists have expressed mixed feelings over the government’s plans to build more schools in the country to improve educational standards, with some welcoming the move, and […]
Fletcher Dulini Ncube: A great fighter for democracy
New Zimbabwe.com By Kurauone Chihwayi 15th September 2014 THE death of Fletcher Dulini Ncube has robbed the country, the MDC and Dulini Ncube’s family of a great man who contributed immensely to the liberation of Zimbabwe. Some of us find it unfair and difficult to exonerate the ruthless Zanu PF regime from the death of […]
“President Mugabe fit as fiddle†– Herald
The Herald By Peter Matambanadzo, Senior Reporter 11 September 2014 A senior MDC official has publicly admitted that President Mugabe’s health is not in question saying he keeps himself as fit as a fiddle. In an interview with the Australian broadcasting Corporation during his trip down under, Bulawayo Senator David Coltart, told his interlocutor that […]
Education curriculum review consultations start next week
Newsday By Tatenda Chitagu 10th September 2014 Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has said the nationwide consultative process for review of the national curriculum is set to start next week. Dokora, who is roundly accused of reversing the gains made in the education sector by his predecessor David Coltart during the coalition government […]
Has Zimbabwe dropped off the world radar?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Mark Colvin Interview 9th September 2014 MARK COLVIN: There was a time when the Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was constantly in the world headlines. Yet in the last few days, when he’s suggested that all whites remaining in the country should go back to England, or that president Obama is afraid of […]
Who would you prefer to succeed Mugabe – Mujuru or Mnangagwa?
The Zimbabwean 3rd September 2014 “Apa mandiremedza madzimai†hamuoni ndabata rushaya sure? – Munyaradzi Shumba Neither. – Colin Copeland Zanu Bokoharam-PF falling into extinction. – Joel Mutasa Cry my beloved country cry…Tongogara is surely turning in his grave. – Emmanuel Mashonga Mnangagwa is quiet and diplomatic. Mai Mujuru talks too much and most of times […]
Bulawayo water activist Arnold Payne dies
http://www.bulawayo24.com/ By Ndou Paul 26th August 2014 Bulawayo water activist Arnold Payne has died. He was 75. Born in Mtshabezi area in Gwanda district in 1938, Payne had been involved in water activism all his life. Payne, an enduring thorn on the side of government, the local authority and all those that he viewed as […]