Category Archives: Press reports
Did I Really Do That?
Wisden Cricketer by Emma John 11 August 2010 Henry Olonga was the man who, alongside Andy Flower, risked everything standing up to Robert Mugabe at the 2003 World Cup. Now he’s ready to tell his story. For those of a nervous disposition, Henry Olonga needs to carry a health warning. Within minutes of meeting him, he has demanded […]
Unique scheme helps poor children back into school
The Standard 11 August 2010 by Jennifer Dube MASVINGO — Nyelet Makaya and Rumbidzai Marume may be young but they are fully aware that they have been rescued from a possible life of misery. The little girls from Rujeko primary school recently recounted how a local non-governmental organisation rekindled their hope for a better future […]
Cultural cricketers gather in Scotland
www.cricketscotland.com 9 August 2010 In Tales from Afghanistan on Sunday 15 August, Magnus Linklater is in discussion with James Fergusson, author of Taliban and former Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent, and Tim Albone, director of Out of the Ashes, a film that captures the uplifting story about the Afghan cricket’s team, and hears their views about what lies […]
Education Transition Fund Sensitisation
www.unicef.org by Tapuwa L. Mutseyekwa 4 August 2010 For most people in Zimbabwe, the expression of joy and happiness are best done through music and drama. It was in this spirit that children in Bulawayo inundated the first sensitisation ceremony of the Education Transition Fund (ETF) with an array of drama, song, poem and dance. […]
Ministry proposes improvements to teachers’ conditions
Newsday by Staff Writer 3 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52 […]
Ministry proposes improvement of teachers’ lot
Newsday By Staff Writer 2 August 2010 Education, Sport, Art and Culture ministry has submitted proposals to Cabinet to improve salaries and other working conditions of teachers, a minister has said. Education minister David Coltart announced this during a workshop at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, last week. He was speaking on the $52 […]
Zimbabwe Human Rights – lest we forget
Letter from Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum 01 Aug 2010 Dear Friends, Tonight, 30.07.2010, the Forum will launch, at a high profile event in Bulawayo, the second volume of our “Taking Transitional Justice to the People Outreach Reportâ€. The launch will take place this evening at 6.00pm in the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel. Key speakers will […]
Building a Jerusalem in Zimbabwe’s green and pleasant land
The Guardian By David Smith 29 July 2010 Place names, schools, eloquent oratories and, of course, cricket can make Zimbabwe seem the most English of African countries High tea and cakes to the strains of a grand piano. Rooms with names such as Balmoral, Edinburgh, Windsor, Mirabelle and Edward & Connaught. An oak-panelled grill that […]
The Commonwealth and Africa
Business Day by Kaye Whiteman 29 July 2010 At the risk of readers muttering ‘there he goes againâ€, I find myself making a case for another look at the Commonwealth and its works, even though I wrote extensively last November on the Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). If I return to the topic it is […]
School curriculums overhaul on cards
The Herald by Herald Reporter 29 July 2010 The Government will soon overhaul school curriculums to meet key recommendations of the 1999 Nziramasanga Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Education, a Cabinet minister has said. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said this at Tuesday’s unveiling of the new Zimsec board in Harare. “We […]