David Coltart rose to fame in the 1980s when he defended senior Zimbabwe African People’s Union politicians such as Sidney Malunga, Edward Ndlovu and Stephen Nkomo, all dead now, when they were being harassed during the 1980s civil strife when ZAPU was accused of trying to topple President Robert Mugabe’s government. Mugabe was Prime Minister at the time. He then set up the Bulawayo Legal Projects Centre to help those who could not afford lawyers. This further catapulted him to fame leading to his election as a Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament in 2000. Coltart was a former member of the Rhodesia police before going to South Africa to study law. He is currently the Minister of Education in the inclusive government. There are 96 Wikileaks cables on him.. Here they are.
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Movement for Democratic Change legislator David Coltart said President Robert Mugabe was going to manipulate the 2002 presidential elections in his favour.
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Three bodyguards of Bulawayo legislator David Coltart were arrested after videotaping a large bus off-loading young men with shaved heads whom they believed were troublemakers or illegal voters brought in by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in the run-up to the Bulawayo mayoral elections of 2001.
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Movement for Democratic Change legislator David Coltart said the party was going to challenge the legality of the Political Parties Finance Act which among other things banned local parties from receiving any foreign funding including through third parties such as non-governmental organisations.
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Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister for Justice David Coltart said High Court Judge Vernanda Ziyambi had misinterpreted the Electoral Act after she dismissed a petition by the MDC seeking nullification of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front victory in the Zvishavane constituency in the 2000 parliamentary elections.
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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said Zimbabwe must rebrand itself after forming an international reputation of violence, corruption and suffering.
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“Ask not what other nations can do, but what Zimbabweans can do for themselves,” Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, speaking at the launch of the Short-Term Economic Recovery Plan.
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Global Witness, the London-based non-governmental organisation that pulled out of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme after it lifted its ban on Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds, says Hong Kong businessman, Sam Pa, is funding the Central intelligence Organisation.
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