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Newsday By Richard Chidza 30 July 2011 Once revered as the best on the continent with graduates coming out of our institutions sought-after commodities the world over, Zimbabwe’s education sector has gone off the rails and something has gone awfully wrong. From schools demanding that financially weary parents pay through the nose for school fees, […]

Zimbabwean By Vusimusi Bhebhe 30 July 2011 The West should take some of the blame for propping up Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe whose human rights excesses they conveniently ignored since the 1980s, Education Minister David Coltart said last week. In an address to the Annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom in Sydney, Australia, last […]

Herald 29 July 2011 GOVERNMENT is considering whether or not incentives for teachers should be scrapped owing to salary increments awarded this month. Secretary for Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Dr Stephen Mahere said they will first engage teachers unions before scrapping the incentives. However, Deputy Education Minister Lazarus Dokora says it is too early […]

http://rogerkerr.wordpress.com July 29, 2011 By Roger Kerr I’m at Consilium this week in Coolum as a guest of the Centre for Independent Studies and the recipient of their Alan McGregor Fellowship.  Consilium is the CIS’ annual ideas and think fest that brings together a great cross section of Australia’s leaders of business, politics, academia, and […]

Financial Gazette 28 July 2011 By Dumisani Nkomo MATABELELAND is the traditional seat of opposition politics in post-independent Zimbabwe and this has become increasingly evident in the past 11 years with the advent of the Movement for Dem-ocratic Change (MDC). Pertinently as elections continue to beckon within the next 36 months or so, the battle for […]

Zimbabwean By Tony Saxon 28 July 2011 The Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart has expressed grave concerns over the deteriorating standards of the country’s education system. Speaking after a tour of schools in Masvingo last week Coltart said there was need to revamp the country’s education system and restore Zimbabwe’s status […]

Senator David Coltart The Annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom 26 July 2011 New South Wales Parliamentary Building, Sydney   “The Kingdom of God is forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it”     This coming September will be the 10th anniversary of the horrors of 9/11, one of the world’s worst […]

Encouraged by Zimbabwe’s performance against Australia A – 10 of Aus team have played for Aus test side and we are missing 5 key players # Waiting for news on Zimbabwe’s World Cup final match against Australia in polocrosse in UK today – any news out there? # Enjoyable evening with Australia A cricket team […]

The Australian By Bruce Loudon 23 July 2011 IT’S about the last thing you would expect him to be, but David Coltart is an optimist. After more than 30 years fighting for human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe, constantly locking horns with Robert Mugabe and defying the worst Mugabe’s brutal regime could throw at him, […]

Newsday Sport Comment 22 July 2011 Football in Zimbabwe cannot be a matter of life and death. Certainly not. We find it strange some people would want to target one member of the Zifa investigating committee in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal and single him out as somebody who has put their lives at risk. The […]