Category Archives: Speeches

By Senator David Coltart Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Harare 28th September 2009 “ Back to the future” Introduction Mrs Robertson, Chairlady of CHIZ, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for this invitation to open your annual conference. I note that your theme is “Back to the future” and that this represents a feeling […]

Speech: Launch of Education Transition Fund By Senator David Coltart Harare: 14 September 2009 The Hon Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Paurina Gwanyanya, Your Excellencies, Dr Peter Salama, Permanent Secretary Dr Mahere, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls; It is my honour to formally launch the Education Transition Fund. The Fund is an initiative […]

Speech given at the opening of a conference on Christian Education at Gateway School, Harare Monday 31st August 2009 By Senator David Coltart Introduction I am grateful for the invitation to open this conference. Although I am a lawyer, not an educationalist, I have been involved in Christian education in Zimbabwe since 1986 when the […]

Speech by Senator David Coltart 100th Anniversay of Scout Association of Zimbabwe Gordon Park, Matopos 8th August 2009 Thank you once again for your kind introduction and thank you for inviting me to the 100th Anniversary of the Scout Association of Zimbabwe, an organization that is dear to my heart and dear to our country, […]

TRANSCRIPT OF SERMON BY SENATOR DAVID COLTART, CHRISTCHURCH, KENILWORTH, CAPE TOWN : 7TH DECEMBER 2008 “Nevertheless, each one of you should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches. Was a man already circumcised […]

Speech given by Senator David Coltart Law Society Summer School: Troutbeck 14th November 2008 I am grateful to Beatrice Mtetwa, President of the Law Society, for giving me a blank cheque today to speak about our electoral system. You may say that this is useless, since cheques are all but worthless in Zimbabwe at the […]

Speech given to Bulawayo Agenda meeting: President Room, Rainbow Hotel By David Coltart Friday18 July 2008 Introduction It is appropriate for me to open my speech by conveying hearty congratulations to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday. I think I speak on behalf of all here today in wishing him continued health and happiness as […]

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Zimbabwe MP David Coltart Yesterday afternoon the Mercatus Center sponsored some brief remarks by Zimbabwe opposition MP David Coltart (wikipedia entry) who is in Washington trying to gain gain assistance for his beleaguered nation. Mr. Coltart is an interesting character, at least to American eyes: a white Zimbabwean, a former supporter […]

By Eileen Sawyer – former National Director of the Legal Resources Foundation Chatham House, London, 4th September 2007 “Gukurahundi” is the Shona name which the Mugabe regime used to describe the massacres in Matabeleland and the Midlands in Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1987. It means the early rain which washes away the chaff before the […]