Author Archives: David Coltart
Mobile Voter Registration Centres for Week 25th-30th June 2013
Please find below a list of all the Mobile Voter Registration Centres that are operating this week in Bulawayo. Ward                     Venue               […]
Statement regarding using schools to conduct primary elections
Statement by the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture regarding using schools to conduct primary elections I have received several reports and complaints today about schools being used countrywide to conduct ZANU PF primary elections. I have stated, as policy, on numerous occasions in the last 4 years that schools should not be used […]
Education Ministry in a quandary Paltry $20 000 allocated for two months
Sunday News By Vusumuzi Dube 23 June 2013 THE Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture is in a quandary after the Government recently allocated it a paltry $20 000 meant to cover administration  costs for the months of May and June, a situation that has been described as traumatic for the education sector. Education, […]
Police ban PTUZ demo against Coltart
Daily News By Mugove Tafirenyika 23 June 2013 HARARE - Police have barred Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) from staging a demonstration against Education minister David Coltart. The teachers union wanted to present a damning petition to Coltart protesting arbitrary transfer of its members from Harare metropolitan province. Raymond Majongwe, PTUZ secretary general said police had […]
City lawyers eye MDC tickets
Southern Eye By Nqobani Ndlovu 21 June 2013 TWO prominent Bulawayo lawyers have forwarded their names for nomination as MDC candidates for the party’s primaries expected to be concluded at the weekend. Sindiso Mazibisa of Cheda and Partners and Matshobana Ncube of Phulu and Ncube are set to slug it out with other prospective candidates […]
Presidential decrees — Mugabe’s lethal weapon
The Independent By Brian Chitemba 21 June 2013 PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe seems to have perfected the art of abusing the draconian Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act (PPTM Act) to make far-reaching changes to electoral laws to suit his political agenda before every election, analysts say. According to Section 2(1)(c) of the Act, the president shall […]
When book education is not enough
The Herald 20 June 2013 By Nyasha Mutena TENDAI KUCHERA (28) is basking in the warm sunshine of the morning, like any other day in his life. He is surely going to spend the day hopping from one person he comes across on the streets to the other, begging for money or engaging in quick […]
Longman Changes Hands
The Financial Gazette By Paul Nyakazeya 20 June 2013 Pearson International, the world’s leading publishing company, has transferred its book publishing and distribution business in Zimbabwe, Longman Zimbabwe, to Consultus Publishing Services (CPS) which has been appointed an exclusive agent in the country, The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets (C&M) can report. CPS, which is registered […]
ZANU PF’s diamond ‘whistleblower’ Chindori-Chininga dies in car crash
SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 2o June 2013 The ZANU PF MP for Guruve South, Edward Chindori-Chininga, died in a car crash in his constituency on Wednesday. No other vehicle was involved in the accident. This has set Zimbabwe talking because last Wednesday he released a damning report about the involvement of ZANU PF […]
Ncube: The big winner in Maputo
News Day By News Day Reporter 19 June 2013 SO the Sadc summit, which was dubbed as a make-or-break Zimbabwean election theatre script has now come and delivered resolutions that continue to tap into the high adrenaline levels that parties in our Global Political Agreement (GPA) sketch went in with. Summit back row rumour has […]