Official page of Senator David Coltart, former Zimbabwean Minister of Education, Sport, Arts & Culture, Christian, human rights lawyer, Mayor of Bulawayo
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
There's so much evil in #Zimbabwe at present. Many Christian leaders are silent. This thread is what the Bible says about it.
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The so-called 'nyika' does NOT include my home province of Matabeleland North
1. Victoria Falls road is a death trap
2. Lupane Provincial Hospital is abandoned
3. Gwayi Shangani dam remains unfinished
4. Lupane state university forgotten
5. Nkayi road at a standstill
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BREAKING: Israel orders army to prepare to fully close West Bank after attack
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South Africa have levelled their Test series against Australia in spectacular fashion 🔥
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EDUCATION IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, NOT A BUDGETARY AFTERTHOUGHT
UNICEF's findings on Zimbabwe's education financing raise serious questions about our national priorities.
Government celebrates economic growth and improved GDP rankings, yet schools remain under-resourced, teachers struggle with poor remuneration, and vulnerable children face barriers to education.
A budget allocation is not the same as money reaching the classroom.
We need adequate funding, timely disbursements, better teacher remuneration, properly funded BEAM programmes and transparent accountability for education expenditure.
Section 75 of our Constitution guarantees the right to education. Government must give practical meaning to that promise.
A country cannot claim economic transformation while neglecting the education of its children.
The future of Zimbabwe is being shaped in its classrooms today.
Education is not a cost to be minimised. It is an investment in our nation's future.
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Israel’s far-right politicians are protesting to block food from entering Gaza.
These are the same politicians who insisted in May 2025 that “there is no starvation in Gaza.”
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, standing next to his grandson, the next in line to rule once his father, the army chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has had his turn as president 🤣🤣🤣
In Uganda, the presidency is not won at the ballot box, it is passed down at the family dinner table.🤣🤣🤣
Succession politics African style!
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Notice:- Interruption of Water Supplies to areas supplied by the Tuli Reservoir.
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🚨Notice from the City of Bulawayo on illegal informal trading and relocation to designated areas.
@CityofBulawayo
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Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit yesterday broadcast Contract Killers and the Far Right, a documentary film that links the British far right to Zimbabwe's political elite.
The film alleges that Jack Ross, chief executive of Turning Point UK, who stood as a Conservative Party candidate in 2023, acting on behalf of the Zimbabwe government, paid thousands of pounds to Allan Nesbitt to organise a fake rally in support of lifting UK sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Nesbitt, a convicted violent criminal with links to the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary group, was filmed offering to have people killed for money.
The investigation began in 2021, when an undercover Al Jazeera reporter joined Turning Point UK, an offshoot of the American right-wing group Turning Point USA. Ross has denied the claims completely, saying nothing he said was meant seriously.
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The UK’s Conservative Party has suspended former candidate Jack Ross after an Al Jazeera documentary showed him discussing ‘contract killers’ fees and offering to broker a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links.
🔗: aje.news/w7gerk
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RT @BBCWorld: Trial hears Tommy Robinson hired private detectives bbc.in/4ytt8Tr
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🚨🎙️ - Winky D on Jamaican Dancehall and Zimbabwean identity:
"A sound travels with its history, but it meets people who have histories of their own."
@Deedsmag / Stanley Kilonzo
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Another Clip | WATCH | Prophet Uebert Angel has been exposed once again after being linked to the hiring of a racists UK far-right group to help Zimbabwe campaign against Western sanctions during President Mnangagwa’s visit to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit in 2021.
🎥 Al Jazeera
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No more awful timing to re-engage than now, during a constitutional coup & ever worsening corruption scandals.
The absence of a credible, (re)organised opposition can never be an excuse to abandon principles & the people.
Short-term commercial interests are the wrong strategy!
Times are indeed changing in global politics, and so is the way Britain looks at Zimbabwe. Who would have thought that the Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, would receive a special mention in the belly of the beast, the House of Commons, the very citadel of British political power?
Two things explain this shift. First, Britain has changed its attitude towards Harare because there is no meaningful opposition to speak of.
Second, since the 2016 Brexit vote, Britain, much like President Trump's administration, has become far more interested in trade and investment, and only talks politics when its own interests are directly affected. It is called realpolitik.
President Mnangagwa's administration has also moved to address issues that troubled London for years. It agreed to compensate white farmers who lost their land, and, unlike the Mugabe administration, it has toned down ZANUPF's anti-British rhetoric.
There are still members of the British Parliament who are vehemently opposed to ZANUPF rule, but they now sit on the fringes of a policy that the new British Ambassador, Gill Lever, has framed around trade, investment and people-to-people links.
What does this mean for the opposition? You only get recognised if you exist and are organised. Today's opposition is built around personalities, where one individual stands in for opposition politics instead of an institution, as the MDC once was.
Until that is fixed, Britain will keep tightening its embrace of ZANUPF, for as long as ZANUPF does not stand in the way of British interests.
The tragedy of Zimbabwe's opposition personalities is that they tell their supporters what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. Lies, empty promises and delusions galore.
It is no small feat for Mnangagwa to send a cross-party parliamentary delegation into the heart of Britain's Parliament, led by none other than the Secretary General of ZANUPF, who is also the Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament. Whichever way you look at it, this is a diplomatic win for him.
Instead of pretending that these things are not happening, the opposition should be asking itself hard questions. How did things get so bad that ZANUPF now controls the narrative in the way we are watching unfold before our eyes?
If you really want to understand the depth of this story, consider this. The Speaker who presided over the recalls of elected opposition MPs, the Speaker who presided over the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill (CAB3), and the Speaker who oversaw its passage into the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Act (CAA3), was warmly welcomed in the British Parliament.
That is how far the opposition has lost the narrative. It is loud on social media, but absent from the corridors of global power where decisions are made.
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LIES!
MORE LIES!
Enough is enough!
I am one of the affected victims who uses this road regularly
I am a bookmarking this tweet
We are tired of your fake news and cheap propaganda
It is time to stop talking and start acting seriously
BULAWAYO–VICTORIA FALLS ROAD REHABILITATION: WORK IS ONGOING NOW
Rehabilitation is underway right now on the Bulawayo–Victoria Falls Road, with all eight contractors back on site, each targeting at least 20 km by December 2026. Works are being carried out in phases—bush clearing, detours, earthworks, drainage, surfacing and widening. This won't be completed overnight, but Government is committed to the project and prioritizing it, with the Ministry intensifying monitoring of scope, progress and quality. To date, 73.4 km has been rehabilitated. The project will improve safety, cut travel time and boost connectivity between Bulawayo, Hwange and Victoria Falls—currently a 15-hour journey. Motorists are advised to exercise caution at construction zones.
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WATCH | Prophet Uebert Angel has been exposed once again after being linked to the hiring of a racists UK far-right group to help Zimbabwe campaign against Western sanctions during President Mnangagwa’s visit to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit in 2021.
🎥 Al Jazeera
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Having been in Iran several times since the war began this seems like wishful thinking. Bombing a country that embraces resistance and martyrdom into submission is probably a fool's errand and Iran will only escalate horizontally again wrecking energy/data facilities regionwide
"Some US planners are convinced that an intensive three-day campaign could cause enough economic damage to change the Iranian position."
You would think they'd have stopped making these kinds of predictions eight months into what was supposed to be a four-or-five-week war nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
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An Al Jazeera undercover documentary that places Zimbabwean cleric Uebert Angel alongside Britain's far right has claimed its first scalp.
The British Conservative Party yesterday suspended Jack Ross, a former election candidate and party member, after the film showed him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers and offering to broker the services of a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links.
The investigation, Contract Killers and the Far Right, began in 2021 when an undercover reporter joined Turning Point UK, an independent offshoot of the American right-wing group Turning Point USA. Ross is the organisation's chief executive and stood as a Conservative candidate in 2023.
Angel, whom President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed ambassador-at-large and special presidential envoy to Europe and the Americas in March 2021, is linked in the film to a £2,600 payment for a staged demonstration meant to create the impression that people in Britain supported lifting sanctions against the Zimbabwean government. The rally was organised in Glasgow during the COP26 climate summit in 2021.
Al Jazeera says Ross acted on behalf of the Zimbabwean government when he arranged the demonstration, and undercover footage shows him agreeing to pay Allan Nesbitt thousands of pounds to organise it. The broadcaster describes Nesbitt as a convicted violent criminal with links to the Ulster Volunteer Force, a proscribed terrorist organisation, and to British far-right networks.
It was Ross who introduced the undercover reporter to Nesbitt, a Glasgow man, and told him that for the right price, Nesbitt and his contacts could arrange anything from beatings and slashings to stabbings, shootings and murder. In another secretly recorded meeting, Nesbitt allegedly offered to arrange the killing of a fictitious business rival through his paramilitary connections, displayed firearms and claimed that money from contract killings could buy weapons for the UVF.
The Conservative Party confirmed that Ross's membership had been suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation, while Police Scotland said it would review the documentary for possible criminality.
Ross has denied the findings, saying his recorded comments were not meant seriously. Al Jazeera says the other parties featured in the investigation did not respond to its requests for comment.
This is not the first time Angel has been caught on Al Jazeera's hidden cameras. In 2023, the broadcaster's Gold Mafia series showed him offering undercover reporters posing as criminals a scheme to bring large amounts of unaccounted cash into Zimbabwe under diplomatic cover in exchange for gold, while he and his associate Rikki Doolan claimed the arrangements had higher approval.
His lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, later said Angel had decided to play along after realising the investors in the documentary were not real.
Three years on, the man President Mnangagwa sent to sell Zimbabwe to the West is back on screen, this time in the company of men who speak openly about the price of a life.
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