Entertainment » Sharon Muguwu, Entertainment Writer
Sunday, 31 March 2013 13:30
HARARE - Zimbabwe's public figures are increasingly utilising information technology gismos to promote their profiles in the seamless global village that the world has become thanks to technology. The Internet provides cheaper platforms for celebrities and other public figures to publicise...Read More
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Thursday, 14 March 2013 10:43
HARARE - Half a million school pupils will benefit from the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) after government and its partners committed resources to ensure sustenance of the programme. Beam is a school fees assistance programme targeted at vulnerable children...Read More
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 12:01
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe's “exaggerated” literacy rate by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has caused complacency leading to lower pass rates and standards in schools, minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart has said. Speaking during a book launch...Read More
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Friday, 15 February 2013 12:28
HARARE - The Ministry of Education, Sports Arts and Culture yesterday allocated just over $1 million for all sporting disciplines in the country. The $1 350 000 channelled to sports is part of a total budget of $1 billion apportioned...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis » Guthrie Munyuki, Senior Assistant Editor
Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:06
HARARE - In my view, Education, Sports, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart, fits perfectly into William Shakespeare’s statement that: “there is no art to find minds construction in the face; he was a gentleman on whom I had built an...Read More
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Thursday, 07 February 2013 11:07
HARARE - Sports minister David Coltart yesterday announced the new Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) board, returning lawyer Joseph James as chairperson. Bulawayo-based James, a former lower league football player, will lead the eight-member board of the country’s supreme sport governing...Read More
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Thursday, 07 February 2013 10:51
BULAWAYO - Government remains the biggest threat to the development of the education sector, a Cabinet minister has said. Education minister David Coltart (pictured) has blamed the poor pass rate recorded for last year’s ‘O’ Level examinations on warped government...Read More
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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 12:18
HARARE - Education minister David Coltart yesterday blamed the disappointing November 2012 Ordinary Level examination results on the “extreme crisis in education experienced between approximately 2005 and 2009”. Results released on Monday showed 81,6 percent of the 172 698 who sat...Read More
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Sunday, 03 February 2013 14:34
HARARE - It is supposed to be a “gentleman’s game”, but this sport has not known peace for nearly 15 years now. For a sport long associated with President Robert Mugabe, the latest problems to rock Zimbabwe cricket are just a...Read More
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News » Guthrie Munyuki, Senior Assistant Editor
Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:38
HARARE - Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) managing director Wilfred Mukondiwa is a gentleman at the heart of a gentlemen’s game. His firm commitment to cricket is never in doubt even in the face of stormy waters created by a directive from Education,...Read More
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Sport » Enock Muchinjo, Sports Editor
Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:57
HARARE - Race remains an overriding issue in Zimbabwean cricket, a sport that was a keystone of white Zimbabwean identity in the past. But times have changed. Most cricket players in Zimbabwe now are black - as are around 98 per...Read More
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:03
BULAWAYO - The Ministry of Education has embarked on a serious crackdown on school heads accused of looting teachers’ incentives. Addressing a Zanu PF provincial meeting in Bulawayo at the weekend, deputy Education minister Lazarus Dokora said his ministry has received...Read More
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Monday, 28 January 2013 10:24
HARARE - Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart must be licking his wounds. Two weeks after causing a storm in cricket following the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) notice to implement his new directives governing minority sports, Coltart been...Read More
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Friday, 25 January 2013 09:12
HARARE - Veteran educationist and sports administrator Paul Nenjerama is the new chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Boxing and Control Board (ZNBBC) announced by Sports minster David Coltart yesterday. Nenjerema and his new board have been tasked with leading local...Read More
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Sport » Enock Muchinjo, Sports Editor
Sunday, 20 January 2013 09:14
HARARE - Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has been ridden with controversies and internal squabbles as far back as I can remember. The current row between Sport minister David Coltart and ZC’s selectors convenor Givemore Makoni, therefore, sparks a sad sense of déjà...Read More
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