Author Archives: David Coltart
Parliament Heroes, Villains
The Financial Gazette By Clemence Manyukwe 4 July 2013 AS the chapter closed on the Seventh Parliament last week, it was clear that there were heroes and villains among Members of Parliament representing the people from across the political divide. Sworn in on August 25, 2008 before its June 29 dissolution, expectations were that the Legislative […]
MDC Candidates
BULAWAYO PROVINCE CONSTITUENCY CANDIDATE 1 BULAWAYO CENTRAL Sibongile Maphosa 2 BULAWAYO EAST David  Coltart 3 BULAWAYO SOUTH Esnath Bulayani 4 MAKOKOBA Thabile  Ndlovu 5 MPOPOMA-PELANDABA Duduzile Dube 6 ENTUMBANE-EMAKHANDENI Christabel Sibutha 7 LOBENGULA Nhlanhla Dube 8 LUVEVE Israel Mabaleka 9 PUMULA Loyisa Ncube 10 MAGWEGWE Sindiso Mazibisa 11 NKULUMANE Matshobana Ncube 12 NKETA […]
Bulawayo National Assembly candidates
The Chronicle 4 July 2013 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Nketa Constituency Eliphas Mashaba          ZANU-PF Phelela Masuku            MDC-T Charles Mpofu             MDC Joel Dube     […]
Schools fleece parents through entrance tests
News Day By News Day Reporter 2 July 2013 PARENTS and the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) have accused schools of using entrance tests as a fundraising platform through interviewing unreasonably more students than can be accommodated. Schools around the country were charging between $20 and $200 for pupils to go through Form One […]
Take Caf courses seriously
News Day News Day Reporter 2 July 2013 LOCAL coaches were back in class last week for the Caf B Licence – an intensive programme that lasted one week instead of the usual 14 days. Knowledge is power, so they say, and local coaches, who have been content with level this and level that type […]
Bulawayo Province candidates list out
Chronicle By Temba Dube and Pamela Shumba 2 July 2013 A TOTAL of 70 candidates from 13 political parties, together with some running as independents have entered the National Assembly race in Bulawayo while 126 will battle it out in the council elections in the city’s 29 wards. According to results released by the Nomination […]
RG ignores Mawere court ruling: Coltart
New Zimbabwe By New Zimbabwe Reporter 30 June 2013 THE Registrar General’s (RG) office continues to demand that holders of foreign passports surrender them before registering to vote, apparently ignoring last week’s Constitutional Court ruling which effectively endorsing dual citizenship, it has emerged. South Africa-based businessman Mutumwa Mawere filed a successful Constitutional Court application requesting […]
Coltart warns politicians against abusing pupils
The Standard By Musa Dube 30 June 2013 POLITICIANS must stop ordering the closure of schools and forcing pupils to attend political rallies ahead of this year’s harmonised elections. The Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart last week said abuse of teachers and pupils by politicians ahead of major elections was rampant, […]
David Coltart takes on MDC-T’s Thabitha Khumalo
Bulawayo24 News By Lulu Brenda Harris 30 June 2013 INCUMBENT Bulawayo East legislator MDC-T’s Thabitha Khumalo is set to lock horns with MDC’s David Coltart for the House of Assembly seat in the forthcoming elections as the MDCs’ battle to control Bulawayo intensifies. The two candidates, both identified as drawcards and strong candidates for their […]
STATEMENT REGARDING DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE
STATEMENT REGARDING DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE RIGHT OF ZIMBABWEAN CITIZENS BY BIRTH TO REGISTER AND VOTE In terms of sections 36 and 43 of the new Zimbabwean Constitution ALL Zimbabweans born in Zimbabwe who have at least one parent who was either a Zimbabwe citizen at the time of their birth or one parent who […]