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CCC hara-kiri
WHEN Nelson Chamisa stepped down as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, the social media streets were full of comments pressuring MPs to resign as a block in solidarity with their leader....Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Constitutional changes on cards in Zimbabwe
Government has set in motion plans to transfer the responsibility to register voters from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Civil Registry Department in sweeping changes to the electoral ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies declared vacabt
The Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, announced in the National Assembly that vacancies exist in the membership of Parliament in respect of Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies, ...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC appoints lawmakers to key Parliamentary positions
The National Assembly published late yesterday in the Hansard that Zimbabwe's opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), had filled its vacant parliamentary committee positions following the reca...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs, councillors ordered to report for duty or risk more recalls
Sengezo Tshabangu, who has assumed the role of "interim secretary general" amid controversy, has issued a communication instructing all legislators and councilors affiliated with the Citizens Coalitio...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Chamisa's MPs defy Parly recall
Parliament was engulfed in chaos yesterday as anti-riot police were summoned to remove opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators who were protesting the recall of their 15 colleagues....Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to conduct lifestyle audit for CCC elected officials
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national deputy spokesperson Ostallos Siziba has stated that the party plans to undertake a lifestyle audit for its candidates who will enter public office after th...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Senator exposes Gukurahundi 'denialists'
Zanu-PF officials from Matebeleland have been accused of blocking any debate and motions on Gukurahundi whenever they are presented in Parliament.The claims were made by recalled MDC Alliance ...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP 'dumb' in Parliament
People of Mazowe North constituency feel betrayed by their Member of Parliament Campion Mugweni who has failed to make a single contribution in Parliament for five years.The electorate told Mu...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Why CCC MPs defied Chamisa and took the US$40,000 loan
ON Tuesday 6 December 2022 the Citizens Coalition for Change Parliamentary Caucus converged in Harare where among other things they discussed critical national issues affecting the citizens of Zimbabw...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:17hrs | | by Prosper Mutseyami
Mnangagwa frets over Chamisa's Sadc links?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is increasingly becoming worried about the growing anti-establishment wave sweeping across the region after a recent shock victory by former opposi...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ailing economy troubles Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF remains worried by the state of the economy ahead of general elections next year, with ruling party officials believing economic hardships will present a big hurdle for the party's quest to wi...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP struggles to read English text; cheered when he switches to Shona
Zanu-PF's Mutoko North legislator Rambidzai Nyabote struggled to read a statement written in English statement during a Question and Answer session in parliament on Wednesday. After Speaker Ja...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs blast 'dishonest' Mthuli Ncube in heated tax-free salary stand-off
LEGISLATORS stood their ground in Parliament this week, firmly rejecting what they saw as a bid by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube to use the Senate to backtrack on a commitment to increase th...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda to give verdict on PVOs Bill
OPPOSITION legislators have demanded that processes on the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill be halted until Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda delivers a verdict on al...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Companies challenge ZCTU over unvaccinated workers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s court challenge against compulsory vaccination of workers has suffered a major blow after government and several private entities cited as respondents di...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Gukurahundi whitewash
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial biography, A Life of Sacrifice, which trended upon its launch this week – mainly for the wrong reasons – has many shades of grey, but it does not compl...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya refusing to cooperate with fuel cartels investigations'
Energy and Power Development deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa has told Parliament that the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are refusing to release information that is critical in ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 08:58hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Poor network leaves Mangwe isolated
"To access internet connectivity for my Zoom meetings, I have to climb a mountain and use my Botswana mobile number," says Gilbert Masuku as he explains the network challenges in Mangwe."Alter...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Economic crisis: MPs feel the heat
LegisLaTors are failing to visit their constituencies because of inadequate fuel as well as failure by Parliament to pay their sitting allowances on time due to economic hardships.The legislat...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
History will absolve Mwonzora
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora (DM) has often been described as a sellout and likened to Rhodesia-Zimbabwe quisling Bishop Abel Muzorewa.Mwonzora, nicknamed "Mwonzorewa" by critics who are d...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Embassy tribalism exposed!
The uncivil dance of tribalism is arguably the most wobbly and unentertaining spectacle at our embassies. This primitive practice of ethnicity is a debilitating epidemic currently eating into the inte...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Biti must not be expelled from Parliament'
Zanu-PF is determined to establish a one-party state similar to the Chinese model, former People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Gorden Moyo said on Thursday.Moyo spoke a day after ...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teachers on MDC Alliance payroll, claims Chinotimba
BUHERA West MP Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu-PF) yesterday accused teachers of fronting for the opposition MDC Alliance through their endless industrial action, which he said had destroyed the education sec...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP accuses Mudenda of favouritism
A ZANU-PF MP has accused National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda of favouritism by giving preferred legislators more opportunities to contribute in Parliament than others.The allegations were ...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's administration is a 'gang of thugs', says UK MP
A veteran member of Parliament in the United Kingdom (UK), Sir Nicholas Soames, has referred to the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government as a "gang of thugs", saying the administration has been a grave d...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Commemorates the visit of Ndebele Chiefs to Queen Victoria in 1889
The African community in the UK will be Celebrating the 1889 visit of two Ndebele Chiefs to Queen Victoria in London. In late 1888 King Lobengula sent 2 emissaries from present day Zimbabwe to go and ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 22:29hrs | 38 | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa
'Monkeys and Baboons': What did Shiri actually say
FACTS AND FICTIONRemarks made by Agriculture minister Perence Shiri, during a Parliamentary debate on July 31, have been widely shared and have raised controversy. Under the headline...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament of Zimbabwe exposed
The constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe provides for a robust and effective legislative arm of government, which provides oversight to the executive. Recent events have exposed Parliament as weak...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 11:12hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Biti vs Mthuli: Transcript
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on Wednesday faced MPs' questions on the economy, in a session marked by a new round of heated policy debate with Tendai Biti, a former Finance Minister.Highlight...Published: 30 May 2019 at 11:13hrs | | by Hansard
There goes Mnangagwa bluffing, yet again!
History has a rich record of dumb presidents, so you really don't worry too much when President Emmerson Mnangagwa forgets the name of the National Sports Stadium or messes up simple math during a pol...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Govt deploys psychologist to 'haunted' Bulawayo school
GOVERNMENT has deployed a psychologist to provide counselling services to science teachers at Mandwandwe High School in Bulawayo who are reportedly refusing to use the school's science laboratory, cla...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Female MPs overshadowed by men in Eighth Parliament'
WOMEN legislators only contributed to 37% of debates in the Eighth Parliament compared to 63% by their male counterparts, a report by the Women in Politics Support Unit (WiPSU) has revealed.Pr...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khumalo, Chinotimba kiss, make up
THE MDC Alliance leader of the House Thabitha Khumalo and Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu PF) yesterday buried the hatchet over an incident where the Zanu PF legislator on Wednesday labelled K...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Elected officials not your bosses'
CHURCH and Civic Society Joint Forum (CSCJF) has urged Zimbabweans to stop calling elected officials "bosses", indicating that this has ruined the nation as the all-too-powerful and invincible politic...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna still faces the threat of losing his seat
NEWLY-sworn-in Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna (Zanu PF) still faces the threat of losing his seat as the Electoral Court is set to hear the case in which the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) allegedl...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Majority of Zimbabwe's legislators lack a reading culture
FORMER Mabvuku-Tafara MP James Maridadi's revelations at a recent Sadc Parliamentary Forum workshop on sexual and reproductive health rights in Harare that the majority of the country's legislators la...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
'Grace Mugabe apologised, admitting she had been fooled'
Former Zanu PF women's league treasurer Sarah Mahoka became one of the first ruling party top officials to push the G40 onslaught against President Emmerson Mnangagwa before he was briefly pushed out ...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Baptism of fire for 'CIO' Bonyongwe
New Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Happyton Bonyongwe (pictured) had a baptism of fire in the National Assembly yesterday.Along with other new ministers in President Robert ...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim parliament launches mobile app
The Parliament of Zimbabwe has launched a mobile app for accessing Parliament news and documents on mobile phones for your convenience.The application is available for free on google app store...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 16:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Maziwisa needs to do more for Highfield'
It is made up mostly of old houses some of which were built in the 1930s, and a majority of senior citizens in Harare live in Highfield.The constituency is highly populated, there is a hive of...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly passes Constitution Amendment No. 1 Bill
THE National Assembly last week passed the Constitution Amendment No. 1 Bill. This is despite the fact that the amendments had been rejected by Zimbabweans during public hearings on the Bill.H...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T accuses Mnangagwa of flouting Bill procedures
THE MDC-T on Tuesday accused Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa of flouting procedures by ignoring to add a clause in the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Number 1 Bill stipulating that the President...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora faces contempt of Parly
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora faces contempt of parliament charges for allegedly misrepresenting to the Senate issues to do with his directive for schools to transfer all ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt warned of bloodbath over Gukurahundi
Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, the outspoken Matebeleland South proportional representation MP, has warned of a bloodbath in Zimbabwe if the Mugabe led government continues to ignore the concerns of...Published: 15 May 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Hansard
Traffic cops free to urinate behind trees at roadblocks
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Obedingwa Mguni has given police manning roadblocks countrywide a green light to urinate and defecate in the open as they please as there is no law against ...Published: 12 May 2017 at 08:01hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Gold panners can invade farms--minister
Gold panner's are empowered to invade farms to pan for gold without the consent of the owner, Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa has said.Chidhakwa said the notorious gold panner's can only do so...Published: 12 May 2017 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Alice Dube
Vice President demands missing $15 billion diamond report
The missing $15 billion said to be missing from diamond revenue is haunting the country as it is 'almost like a bad spirit or an evil spirit', MDC-T Vice President Nelson Chamisa has said.Cham...Published: 11 May 2017 at 09:10hrs | | by Alice Dube
Dokora to launch crackdown on illegal schools
Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora has vowed to clampdown mushrooming illegal schools in Harare's townships.New private schools run by individuals, families and orga...Published: 11 May 2017 at 08:34hrs | | by Alice Dube
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