The Herald 27 February 2009 THE Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has ordered schools not to turn away children for failing to pay fees while awaiting a Cabinet decision next week on recommendations on a new fee structure. In an interview yesterday, Minister of Education, Sport, Arts an...

CRICKET360 PITCHED BY EDITOR SATURDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2009 It was a bad past few days for cricket and cricket news, with the mother of all cricket scandals, a pitch that crumbled so that playing on it was impossible, and cricket leagues troubled with financial and other troubles. Now however, things ma...

The Independent By Enock Muchinjo 20th February 2009 ONE positive aspect of the new power-sharing government could be the appointment of sports enthusiast David Coltart as the Minister of Education, Sports and Culture. As a schoolboy in Bulawayo, Coltart was a keen cricketer and golfer at Christian ...

Business Day 6 February 2009 By Tony Heard A CACOPHONY of sceptics. That collective noun aptly describes the underlying disbelief over the South African-led peace effort in Zimbabwe. And it will persist. This correspondent has some personal experience of it, because last year in Business Day he vent...

Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 31, 2009 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five...

Washington Post Foreign Service By Karin Brulliard Sunday, January 11, 2009 As More Perish and Poverty Deepens, Kin Abandon Traditions HARARE, Zimbabwe — Noel Nefitali died of cholera on Dec. 28 at age 35, though no one passing by his grave site would know that. The cheapest chipboard coffin a...

Washington Post By David Coltart Wednesday, December 24, 2008 BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — There is a perfect humanitarian storm in my country. The threats of AIDS, poverty, hyperinflation and malnutrition, and now cholera, combined with a regime that has given up on its people, add up to an all-but-u...

On Sunday evening the 7th December I spoke at my old church from my University of Cape Town days, Christ Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, on the topic “Remaining faithful in a situation of crisis and hopelessness�. I was asked to speak by Christ Church’s Minister-in-charge Duncan McLea in the ...

ZimOnline By Juma Donke Thursday 11 December 2008 CAPE TOWN – The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has no option but to accept the flawed September 15 power sharing agreement with ZANU PF for it to start reversing the deleterious effects of the humanitarian crisis that is spreading across...

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 ci...