Minister Chombo Threatens Media
News 24 25th September 2017 Harare – Zimbabwe’s home affairs minister on Sunday threatened “renegades and malcontents” who he accused of spreading alarm and despondency by claiming there are shortages. In a chilling threat, Ignatius Chombo said that the government was monitoring the press and social media “to deal a telling blow to the perpetrators
How much longer the night? The remorseless tyranny of Robert Mugabe
Times Literary Supplement By Martin Meredith 22 September 2017 A review of two books by Stuart Doran, “Kingdom, Power and Glory” and David Coltart “The Struggle Continues” In a pastoral letter sent to congregations throughout Zimbabwe ten years ago, a group of Catholic bishops issued a scathing indictment of Robert Mugabe’s rule. The plight of
Hitches blight voter registration process
Newsday 22nd September 2017 By NQOBANI NDLOVU TECHNICAL hitches continued to dog the voter registration exercise in some parts of the Matabeleland region yesterday, with some potential voters claiming it took them longer than necessary to have their fingerprints registered in the biometric voter registration (BVR) scanners acquired by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The
Khumalo “donates” seat to Coltart
Newsday BY BLESSED MHLANGA 13th September 2017 MDC-T deputy spokesperson and Bulawayo East legislator Thabitha Khumalo has resolved to step down and not contest in the 2018 general elections after she ceded her parliamentary seat to MDC’s David Coltart as part of the opposition parties’ coalition deal. “Coltart is most likely to be the MDC
Jacket Notes: Stuart Doran on Kingdom, power, glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the quest for supremacy, 1960-1987
Sunday Times 29th August 2017 Kingdom, power, glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the quest for supremacy, 1960-1987 (Sithata Media) by Dr Stuart Doran The publishing of this book, centred on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s orchestration of the Gukurahundi massacres, is the end of a long process. At one level, it began in 2003 when I discovered
David Coltart’s offices raided
Sunday News 27th August 2017 BURGLARS broke into former Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Senator David Coltart’s law firm offices in Belmont, Bulawayo last weekend and got away with an undisclosed amount of money, it has been confirmed. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango, however, said she was not in a position to comment
Trump is delighting dictators everywhere
Washington Post 21st August 2017 By Michael Gerson We are seeing the sad effects of President Trump’s renunciation of moral leadership on American politics and culture — the waning of civility, idealism and respect, and the waxing of contempt, prejudice and racial division. But how is a similar moral abdication — summarized as the doctrine
Zimbabwe’s untold history: Time luminaries told their stories
Newsday Candour with Nqaba Matshazi 17th August 2017 In 2007, when the country’s political temperatures were rising ahead of a Zanu PF congress and the 2008 elections, I asked now Zapu leader, Dumiso Dabengwa whether he had thought of writing a book, he promised that he was working on something. Dabengwa was clearly on his
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s remarks at the book launch of “The Struggle Continues” August 2017
Centre for Independent Studies Sydney, Australia 10th August 2017 On the 10th August 2017 the Centre for Independent Studies hosted Senator David Coltart for the Sydney book launch of “The Struggle Continues”. Former Australian Prime Minister was the guest of honour. This is the link to the event and Mr Howard’s remarks recorded on uTube:
