Category Archives: Press reports

Newsday 2 April 2016 PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was reportedly offered asylum by his then Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade in the aftermath of his electoral loss to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at the 2008 polls, former Education minister David Coltart has claimed. In his autobiography, The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny, Coltart said former South […]

Radio VOP 30 March 2016 By Staff Reporter Harare, March 30, 2016 – PROFESSOR Welshman Ncube’s MDC has stood by party top official David Coltart who is under fire for allegedly publishing falsehoods concerning political rivals. The former education minister, who is also MDC Secretary for Legal and Constitutional Affairs, recently launched his book entitled […]

The Zimbabwean 30 March 2016 THE opposition MDC party has condemned attacks on party Senator David Coltart by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the justice ministry secretary, accusing both of trying to intimidate and harass citizens exercising their right to freedom of expression. Self-assured and usually unflappable, Mnangagwa hardly reacts to adverse media reports about […]

Bulawayo 24 News 29 March 2016 AN MDC-T official Promise NMkhwananzi has said claims made by MDC senior official and former Education Minister David Coltart in his book are a serious reverse of the gains of the democratic process which were instigated by the opposition party. Coltart claimed in his book that MDC-T leader Morgan […]

VOA Studio 7 By Gibbs Dube 27 March 2016 WASHINGTON — Zimbabweans have been urged to push for a private citizens’ bill, which will result in the tackling of the Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s that left an estimated 20,000 people dead, hundreds displaced and others maimed. Dr. Shepherd Mpofu of the University of Johannesburg […]

Independent Foreign Service 27 March 2016 at 12:11pm By: Peta Thornycroft Harare – Zimbabwe’s former education minister David Coltart says he is ready to face vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa in court after the Zanu-PF strongman threatened to sue him. Mnangagwa is tipped to succeed President Robert Mugabe, 92, when he retires or dies. The row emerged […]

Zimeye 24 March 2016 The President of The Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe(PDZ), Barbara Nyagomo, has called on embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign following revelations that he made controversial remarks during the Gukurahundi atrocities in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces. In a statement released earlier today Nyagomo said instead of attempting to pour cold water […]

The Herald, 24 March 2016 By Tichaona Zindoga Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2006 trained bandits in South Africa in preparation for a violent takeover of power in Zimbabwe, a new book by former Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South David Coltart has revealed. Editor’s note – the book #StruggleContinues does not state that Tsvangirai […]

VOA Studio 7 By Gibbs Dube 24 March 2016 WASHINGTON DC — President Robert Mugabe once described the Five Brigade atrocities in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces in the 1980s as a moment of madness. In the late 1980s, he set up an inter-ministerial committee headed by the late Vice President John Nkomo to look […]

The Chronicle 23 March 2016 VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denounced “false and malicious” statements he says are contained in a book recently published by Bulawayo Senator David Coltart (MDC) Mnangagwa said he “noted with concern” claims in Coltart’s autobiography, The Struggle Continues, that he incited violence against civilians in the 1980s at the height […]