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Coltart: My main focus is not private schools
Financial Gazette 5 March 2009 By Njabulo Ncube AFTER a year of industrial action, public schools burst into life on Monday following an agreement between government and the two unions representing teachers – the Zimbabwe Teachers Union (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ). The Financial Gazette Political Editor, Njabulo Ncube (NN), sought […]
Rivals agree to form government in Zimbabwe
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Saturday, 31 January , 2009 08:12:00 Reporter: Andrew Geoghegan ELIZABETH JACKSON: It’s taken almost most five months of wrangling but Zimbabwe’s Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has agreed to form government with his bitter rival Robert Mugabe. The agreement comes as Zimbabwe’s economic and humanitarian crisis deepens. Cholera has now killed more than […]
Hope is on the way
HOPE IS ON THE WAY By David Coltart 20th January 2009 I have just finished celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama by watching it on television with my family. On a day when there is so much gloom in my beloved Zimbabwe – the legacy of decades of oppression – I found the entire […]
Staring down the barrel
Mail and Guardian Homepage By Jason Moyo January 16 2009 The future of Zimbabwe’s power-sharing agreement will likely be decided on Sunday when the national executive of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) meets to decide whether to join President Robert Mugabe in a unity government. Meanwhile, Parliament is expected to resume sitting on […]
Zimbabwe must change now
The Australian By David Coltart December 24, 2008 ZIMBABWE is in the vortex of a perfect humanitarian storm; an unprecedented convergence of AIDS, poverty, hyperinflation, malnutrition, a regime that does not care and, now, cholera. The humanitarian crisis has its roots in the political crisis. The political agreement signed in September by ZANU-PF and both […]
Constitutional Amendment Now Focus In Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Saga
VOA By Blessing Zulu Washington 18 November 2008 Zimbabwe’s troubled power-sharing process involving the long-ruling ZANU-PF and the majority Movement for Democratic Change focused Tuesday on the constitutional amendment required to establish the office of prime minister to lead a national unity government. Sources in both parties indicated competing drafts of such an amendment were […]
Robert Mugabe to form government ‘as soon as possible’
The Telegraph By Sebastien Berger And Peta Thornycroft in Johannesburg 10 November 2008 The opposition Movement for Democratic Change had been demanding control of the home affairs ministry, but a Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Johannesburg at the weekend said the post should be shared. “We will try to institute it as soon […]
Exodus Of South African Ministers Adds To Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Concerns
VOA By Delia Robertson & Blessing Zulu Johannesburg & Washington 23 September 2008 The resignation on Tuesday of 11 South African ministers following that of President Thabo Mbeki increased concern the shuffle in Pretoria could have a negative impact on the delicate power-sharing transition already running into difficulty in Zimbabwe. VOA’s Delia Robertson reported from […]
Rivals in Zimbabwe sign power-sharing agreement
New York Times By Celia Dugger 15 September 2008 HARARE, Zimbabwe — After almost three decades of untrammeled power, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Monday signed an agreement that gives his longtime rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, the authority to shape and carry out government policies as the country’s new prime minister. The power-sharing deal, a […]
The end of the beginning
By David Coltart Nine years to the day since I stood with Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and many other patriots on the 11th September 1999 at Rufaro Stadium to launch the MDC a deal has been agreed in Harare tonight to bring to an end 28 years of brutal Zanu PF […]