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Planet Cricket – Zimbabwe are being zapped by hapless bosses
www.thecricketpaper.com 21st April 2018 After disappointment, there are a few alternative routes for an organisation or a sports team to take. There is stability, reasoning that those who failed will learn from their errors and put things right; there is well-reasoned change, carefully analysing what went wrong, making carefully-judged changes in personnel, aiming to tweak […]
MDC-T violence must be nipped in the bud!
The Chronicle Propaganda by Hildegarde Manzvanzvike 23rd February 2018 TRUTH can be ruthless and hurtful. There is no substitute to truth for to substitute it would be to give dignity to fabrications. We all wanted to see former Prime Minister in the inclusive Government Mr Morgan Tsvangirai who died on Valentine’s Day accorded a befitting […]
Coltart and Gukurahundi conspiracy against Mnangagwa
The Herald MY TURN (Propaganda) WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA 31st January 2018 Last week, opposition politician and lawyer — one of Zimbabwe’s few politically active white men — David Coltart, published on his blog a statement “on Rhodesian atrocities, his time in the BSAP and an apology for his role in sustaining an unjust system of […]
How ED got it wrong with first Cabinet
The Standard By Violet Gonda 10th December 2017 Journalist Violet Gonda (VG) interviewed former Education minister David Coltart on the Hot Seat programme to understand President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Cabinet soon after he announced it on the 1st December 2017. This is the transcript of the interview which was done before President Mnangagwa changed his Cabinet […]
An hour or so of Chopin and Beethoven may briefly calm the shattered minds of Zimbabweans
Catholic Herald Notebook 6th December 2017 By Petroc Trelawny I got an email this week inviting me to a recital by a pianist called Genaro Pereira. At the Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo. Given the battered, troubled state of the country, it seems almost unbelievable that such events still take place. The people who […]
Let’s break out of the political madness zone
Newsday 1st December 2017 By Conway Tutani Now that the disastrously failed and highly polarising Robert Mugabe is out, the imperative is to manage expectations, which have shot high in a matter of days. CONWAY TUTANI ECHOES Flashback to 1980: There was an outbreak of strikes as over-expectant Zimbabweans demanded immediate change after the attainment […]
“The Zimbabwean crisis exposes the Democratic Alliance’s hypocrisy” – opines Andile Lungisa
Daily Maverick By Andile Lungisa – the former deputy president of the ANC, Eastern Cape 30th November 2017 Sometimes foreign policy reveals much more about a political actor’s position on critical questions in domestic policy than the position they adopt on such matters at home. Foreign policy, it has become trite to observe, is the […]
Much of our current euphoria in Zimbabwe is misplaced – statement by Senator David Coltart
Daily Maverick 19th November 2017 Opinion by David Coltart The message to the Zimbabwe Defence Force must now be – thank you for cleaning up the mess you created but you must now return to your barracks as soon as possible and never again get involved in the electoral process. As I have reflected about […]
“An opportunity for Zimbabwe to embrace democracy” – op ed by David Coltart
The Telegraph 17th November 2017 Op ed by David Coltart For the last eighteen months I have been warning of a gathering perfect storm in Zimbabwe – the unique convergence of several factors including Robert Mugabe’s frailty, his inability to hold his own party together, disunity in the opposition, a collapsing economy, a region distracted […]
Zimbabwe faces a grave constitutional crisis – op ed by David Coltart
Daily Maverick 16th November 2017 By David Coltart Zimbabwe faces a grave constitutional crisis. For all the ambiguity in General Constantine Chiwenga’s statement this week it challenges President Robert Mugabe either to turn his back on his wife and other members of the G40 faction or to face the wrath of the military. In reality […]