Category Archives: Press reports

Newsday 6th July 2017 By Blessed Mhlanga The government’s failure to implement electoral reforms and create a conducive environment for free, fair and credible elections makes the 2018 polls a futile academic excise, a leading political scientist has said yesterday. Southern Africa Political and Economic Series director, Ibbo Mandaza told a University of Zimbabwe elections […]

The Standard By Obey Manayiti 18th June 2017 BLAKISTON Primary School in Harare has started offering driving lessons as the government’s controversial education reforms begin to take root. The government school in the capital’s Milton Park area notified parents about the new developments through a secular last week. “Come and register at the school,” read […]

NewZimbabwe.com 7th June 2017 FORMER Primary and Secondary Education Minister, David Coltart, says the government prioritises presidential and cabinet foreign trips while routinely allocating meagre budgets to the education sector. Speaking at the Trust of Schools Zimbabwe Association meeting in Victoria Falls on Monday, Senator Coltart said for the past 25 years, the Zanu PF […]

The Standard By Nqobani Ndlovu 4th June 2017 Suspected human bones believed to be of victims of the Gukurahundi massacres discovered in Kezi, Matabeleland South last week were “hurriedly” reburied without any forensic analysis, raising questions that government is “hiding something”. Kezi is one of the areas that bore the brunt of the mass killings […]

The Standard By Xolisani Ncube 28th May 2017 President Robert Mugabe spent a staggering 77 days out of the country in the first five months of the year as his love for foreign travel continues to drain the cash-strapped government. Mugabe arrived in the country on Friday after spending a week at the Mexican resort […]

Byo24 News By Stephen Jakes 24th May 2017 MDC senior official David Coltart who is also a former Education Minister has said Zimbabwe 37 years after its independence still has no single serviceable plane amid the ban of its dangerous plane from flying into European zones. He said although the ruining party (Zanu PF) controlled […]

Eyewitness News 12th May 2017 Zimbabwe’s four-year-old Constitution allows people to hold more than one passport, but Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede says he wants to change that. A top Zimbabwe official wants to ban dual citizenship and lawyers are outraged. Zimbabwe’s four-year-old Constitution allows people to hold more than one passport, but Registrar General Tobaiwa […]

News 24 By Njabulo Ncube 5 May 2017 Harare – Zimbabwe clergy Evan Mawarire of #This Flag fame is bringing together social movements against President Robert Mugabe ahead of the 2018 polls amid increasing calls for opposition leaders to swiftly bring to finality a grand coalition. Elections are tentatively set for July 2018 but the […]

Irish Times 21 April 2017 By Bill Corcoran Movement for Democratic Change and National People’s Front sign pact ahead of 2018 vote The leaders of Zimbabwe’s two main opposition political parties have forged an alliance to take on President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party in the southern African country’s general elections next year. Movement […]