Category Archives: Blog
Outside looking in – a letter from the diaspora
Zimbabwean Written by Pauline Henson 23 July 2010 Dear Friends, I suppose it’s not really surprising that Zimbabwe doesn’t feature very highly on the world’s news agenda at the moment. The problem – or one of them – is that nothing seems to be happening. The conclusion most non-Zimbabweans draw from that, if they think […]
BBC interview with Henry Olonga and David Coltart
BBC 5 Live Sport 22 July 2010 You can listen back to the BBC Radio 5 live interview in which Henry Olonga questions David Coltart at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t4nbz/5_live_Sport_22_07_2010/. Listen from about 6 minutes in. BBC iPlayer – 5 live Sport: 22/07/2010 www.bbc.co.uk Listen to 5 live Sport
MDC minister David Coltart says an “evolutionary process” will gradually bring democracy to Zimbabwe
BBC Radio 4 22 July 2010 Today MDC minister David Coltart says an “evolutionary process” will gradually bring democracy to Zimbabwe via web r4today BBC Radio 4 Today
David Coltart on Zimbabwe’s unity government on BBC Hardtalk
BBC Hardtalk 20 July 2010 Zimbabwe has had a year and a half of power sharing government but how much power is really being shared? President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party still seems to be the dominant force in politics, the economy and the security apparatus. David Coltart is Zimbabwe’s minister for education and a […]
When All is Not Black and White: Lessons from Zimbabwe
Croz Walsh’s Blog 19 June 2010 I was at Auckland airport, just having returned from Fiji last week (of that more later), when I picked up a discarded copy of The Dominion Post* opened at “Mugabe’s Uneasy Ally Pleads for Kiwi Cricket Tour.” Intrigued — and thinking there could be a lesson here for New Zealand […]
Interview with David Coltart: Zimbabwe’s fragile coalition
ABC Radio Australia PM, 18 June 2010 With reporter Mark Colvin MARK COLVIN: Should Australian cricket thaw out its relations with Zimbabwe, two years on from the election that brought in a power-sharing agreement there? Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF Party lost the election of 2008, and after much negotiation were forced to share power […]
Interview with David Coltart on ABC Grandstand Sport
ABC Radio Grandstand Sport, 17 June 2010 Interview with David Coltart http://www.abc.net.au/news/audio/2010/06/19/2931563.htm
Interview with David Coltart: Zimbabwe’s Transitional Inclusive Government
ABC Radio Australia Late Night Live, 17 June 2010 Philip Adams interviews David Coltart on Zimbabwe’s Transitional Inclusive Government http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2010/2929838.htm
Phillip Adams interviews David Coltart on ABC Radio National, Late Night Live
ABC Radio Late Night Live Interviewed by Phillip Adama 17 June 2010 PHILLIP ADAMS: The last time I spoke to David on this programme was in 2005 when his country was in free fall. Stories of extraordinary political and social upheaval, of famine, the collapse of the rule of law, the descent into political violence, […]
David Coltart Interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand Interviewed by Kathryn Ryan Nine to Noon, 15 June 2010 KATHRYN RYAN: We welcome our feature guest, a Minister in Zimbabwe’s coalition Government of National Unity, who is in New Zealand to lobby New Zealand Cricket to reconsider its cancelled tour to Zimbabwe. David Coltart is a human rights lawyer, a white […]