The New Zealand cricket team have pulled out of their Zimbabwe tour – Zimbabwe Sports Minister David Coltart responds – Audio
New Zealand Talk Radio Tuesday, 16 March 2010 David Coltart is the Zimbabwe’s Sports Minister. He comments on NZ cricket’s decision to pull out of their tour of Zimbabwe. The link to hear the interview is below. http://www.radiolive.co.nz/LUSH–The-New-Zealand-cricket-team-have-pulled-out-of-their-Zimbabwe-tour—Zimbabwe-Sports-Minister-David-Coltart-responds/tabid/506/articleID/12487/Default.aspx
Ewing apologises to Tuskers fans
Sunday News Senior Sports Reporter 14 March 2010 Matabeleland Tuskers cricket franchise captain Gavin Ewing has apologised to the fans for his team’s poor display this season. Speaking at the Matabeleland Tuskers franchise management committee chairman, Delma Lupepe’s cocktail, held at the Tuskers chairman’s enclosure at Queens Sports Club last Friday, Ewing acknowledged that his
Zimbabwe battles to restore basic education
http://www.zicora.com/ 12th March 2010 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, David Coltart has said the main challenge his ministry was facing was restoring basic education for all children, a position that once existed in the 1980s. Minister David Coltart said although the county’s education was improving he hoped the sector would revert to the 1980s
‘Incentives divide civil servants’
Manica Post By Andrew Mambondiyani 12 March 2010 THE Public Service Commission is against the paying of incentives to teachers, as that has created division within the civil services, the commission’s chairman, Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwa, has said. Responding to questions during a meeting with members of the civil service in Mutare on Tuesday night, Dr
Education ministry in battle to restore basic education
www.zicora.com Posted By Own Staff Friday, 12 March 2010 Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, David Coltart has said the main challenge his ministry was facing was restoring basic education for all children, a position that once existed in the 1980s. Minister David Coltart said although the county’s education was improving he hoped the sector
Protests Over Teacher Incentives Indicative of Education Decline
Media Global New York By Rachel Pollock 11 March 2010 On 8 March 2010, 600 members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe (WOZA) gathered in the city of Bulawayo to protest Minister of Education David Coltart and his stance against banning parents’ incentives for teachers. Coltart told parliament last week, “There has been lawlessness in
Oscar winner ‘Music by Prudence’ – King George VI Band
Baltimore Sun 8th March 2010 Many Zimbabweans regard handicaps as signs of sorcery. So singer-songwriter Mabhena and her bandmates in the Afro-fusion marimba group Liyana were stigmatized at birth. Not every band member has an affliction as visible and extreme as Mabhena’s: She suffers from arthrogryposis, a condition that deforms joints and cost her both
Woza marks international womens day with protest in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwean Monday, 08 March 2010 Written by WOZA Six hundred members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) marched to the High Court in Bulawayo today in protest against the utterances of the Minister of Education, Senator David Coltart, made in Parliament last week. The Minister said that he would not stop teachers
Sanctions against Zimbabwe may be helping Mugabe
NRC Handelsblad 8 March 2010 By Peter Vermaas in Harare The sanctions against Zimbabwe are supposed to hurt the clique surrounding president Mugabe. They may be having the opposite effect. Two young men with dreadlocks hung around idly near a mall in Eastlea, one of the better suburbs in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, waiting
Mugabe’s ZANU-PF Deals Serious Blow To Unity Government
VOA 8th March 2010 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare Zimbabwe’s president strips power from three MDC ministries; move seen as deliberate attempt to provoke party into leaving power-sharing deal Zimbabwe’s unity government has suffered its worst blow since its formation a year ago, according to the Movement for Democratic Change and several Zimbabwean political analysts