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ConCourt blocks bid to trash Zimbabwe's delimitation report
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has rejected an attempt by a Zanu-PF activist to force dumping of the current constituency boundaries delimitation report citing alleged constitutional violations d...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:00hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Adv Mudenda in Moscow for summit
THE parliaments of Zimbabwe and Russia are set to heighten bilateral co-operation during the Africa-Russia Parliamentary conference currently underway in Moscow, Speaker of the National Assembly Advoc...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:47hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt accused of shutting civic space ahead of 2023 elections
POLICE are reportedly banning feedback meetings of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament (MPs), which has unnerved the opposition as the country inches closer to the 2023 general e...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 15:13hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police ban on meetings rattles Chamisa's CCC
POLICE are reportedly banning feedback meetings of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament (MPs), which has unnerved the opposition as the country inches closer to the 2023 general e...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga summoned
PARLIAMENT has summoned Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to give a ministerial statement on the chaos at Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas), as well as inform the nation why the public hea...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:02hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
Parliamentarians grill Soda over power black-outs
LEGISLATORS yesterday grilled Energy minister Zhemu Soda over the continuing power black-outs in the country after the power company data showed that it was producing on 352 megawatts on the day....Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:47hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba resists political pressure over delimitation
IN the days leading to 17 February when the final delimitation report was supposed to be gazetted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:38hrs | 2812 | by Staff reporter
Proposed prisons law raises eyebrows
The proposed Prisons and Correctional Services Bill strips the Prisons and Correctional Services Commission (PCSC) of several decision-making powers, which will be given to the president and commissio...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:50hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Date set for delimitation court case
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) delimitation report, likely to be gazetted tomorrow, faces a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge, which will be heard on March 26.This follows a C...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai remembered in Parliament
THE late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai was on Tuesday remembered in Parliament for improving the Zimbabwean economy during the Government of National Unity (GNU) from 2009-2013.The former Pri...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 20:21hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba, Mnangagwa face-off
A raging row pitting Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) boss Justice Priscilla Chigumba and President Emmerson Mnangagwa over delimitation enters a critical week on Monday.ZimLive has heard f...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 07:09hrs | 11913 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda tells women to fight for positions
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda says women should campaign fearlessly and outcompete men for political positions to achieve gender equality.He said this while launching a handbo...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:21hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo implicated in murky Chiredzi land deal
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo's staggering US$155 million Chiredzi land deal — stinking to high heaven in the lowveld — for his cronies has now fully exploded as residents and Members of Par...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:16hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana relents on dirty political chicanery over delimitation report
GOVERNMENT spokesman Nick Mangwana has apparently relented on his sinister plot to campaign - with the assistance of Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman Georg...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:15hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ministers cornered over false promise to military
MEMBERS of Parliament on Wednesday cornered the acting leader of government business in the National Assembly, Felix Mhona, and deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa over an unfulfilled promise mad...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:13hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
Zec commissioners' revolt intensifies?
THE revolt by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s seven commissioners who have refused to append their signatures on both the draft preliminary delimitation report submitted to Parliament and th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:12hrs | 1416 | by Staff reporter
Battle over new boundaries rages on
Zanu-PF's Tonderai Chidawa has responded to Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, stating that the legal battle over the preliminary delimitation report is still on despite Parliament raisin...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:10hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs raise new demands
LESS than two months after being pampered with US$40 000 housing loans that divided public opinion countrywide, legislators are now mourning over not being paid sitting allowances for nearly five mont...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:22hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt makes U-turn on free education
GOVERNMENT has made a dramatic U-turn on its earlier pledge to provide free basic education beginning this term.Primary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu admitted in Parliament ye...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:09hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parly summons Education minister over 2022 exam leaks
Primary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu has been ordered to appear before ParliamentPrimary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu has been ordered to appear before Parl...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:09hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Parly Speaker dismisses Zanu-PF activist's claim as delimitation report row rages
THE Parliament of Zimbabwe has hit back at Zanu-PF member, Tonderai Chidawa, who dragged the legislature to court for accepting what he claimed to be a flawed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Preli...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:05hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe varsities' law curricula need review'
NEWLY elected Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) president Rumbidzai Matambo has suggested that the country's law curricula must be revised to satisfy new industry trends.Matambo says recent law gr...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Parly Speaker defends Zec delimitation report
IN a surprise about turn Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has supported the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s preliminary delimitation report saying all processes to produce the rep...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 349 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
Zanu-PF and CCC pursuing the 4th Chimurenga agenda: Is it mere coincidence?
Barbara Tanyanyiwa, a woman representative at CCC was on 19th January 2022 interviewed by Studio 7 on the arrests of 25 CCC members in Budiriro in Harare. In her 2 minutes, 15 seconds inte...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 17:55hrs | 2214 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Temba Mliswa blasts parly ad hoc committee
OUTSPOKEN independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa this week attacked the composition of the Parliament ad hoc committee analysing the preliminary delimitation exercise report cautioning on possible...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to hand over Parly's Delimitation report to ZEC
President Mnangagwa is today expected to hand over to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), a report by Parliament on the preliminary Delimitation report of electoral ward and constituency boundari...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:38hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt hears case by Zanu-PF activist that could upend delimitation
The Constitutional Court on Thursday began hearing an application by a Zanu-PF supporter seeking to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to restart the process of delimitation of constituency...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:12hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Judge tosses CCC MPs' yellow neckties challenge against speaker
HIGH Court judge, David Mangota has dismissed a challenge by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers who had sued the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda for throwing them out of the august hou...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:57hrs | 2093 | by Staff reporter
New headache for Zec
NEW headaches emerged yesterday for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) after former Cabinet minister Elton Mangoma added his voice to mounting criticism of the electoral body's preliminary delimi...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:23hrs | 1356 | by Staff reporter
Zec delimitation report challenger hounded
A Zanu-PF activist and former Zicosu president Tonderai Chidawa, who last week challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) preliminary delimitation report, says he is being hounded by suspected...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:01hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drafts in G40 members in 'new' Zanu-PF politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Generation 40 (G40) members into the Zanu-PF politburo while keeping the usual tired horses close to him in an apparent political balancing act that betrays ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:11hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
New ZANU PF Politburo announced, Mnangagwa promotes wife
President Emmerson Mnangagwa promotes his wife to a ministerial post In Zanu PF while announcing the new politburo. Mnangagwa has announced a full line-up of Politburo members, whose work...Published: 23 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | 2940 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Parliamentary Committee meets to discuss Agriculture Minister Masuka
Members of Parliament are allegedly not happy with Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Mayor Justice Wadyajena’s vindictive efforts to punish Agriculture Minister Dr. Anxious Jongwe Masuka. A Harare based M...Published: 19 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | 2888 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Sarcastic' Hwende chased out of Parliament
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende was on Thursday [yesterday] chased out of parliament before he could debate the budget, apparently for no...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 09:58hrs | 4400 | by Moyo Roy
UZ exam paper leaks under probe
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has taken a keen interest in reports that rich and politically exposed persons are bribing their way to obtain law qualifications at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:13hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
US$40 000 windfall for Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs
LEGISLATORS are reportedly set to receive US$40 000 each from government for their welfare, NewsDay has learnt.This was after the Members of Parliament's Welfare Committee, which includes part...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
EU demand to observe Zimbabwe's 2023 election?
THE European Union (EU) has called for peaceful, free and fair elections next year while expressing its readiness to send election observers to Zimbabwe for the 2023 general elections.Addressi...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:19hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Canada envoy discusses Zimbabwe elections
Canada's ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Christina Buchan has met Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda where they discussed issues around elections and democracy in the two count...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urged to probe corruption, abuses at hospitals
Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has been urged to investigate corruption and ill-treatment of patients at the country's hospitals.Raising a matter of national interest ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Senate President set for Russia visit
THE Russian foreign ministry has confirmed the pending visit by President of Senate, Mabel Chinomona, in a move envisaged to cement relations between Zimbabwe and the former Soviet Union country....Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 06:39hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda fights in CCC's Jasmine Toffa's corner?
As a political analyst I enjoy following debate and discussions in Parliament. I was perplexed by the events in Parliament last week when the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda exercised his authorit...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:54hrs | 938 | by Regis Charehwa
Zimbabwe MPs in near fist fight
THERE was chaos in Parliament yesterday with legislators almost exchanging blows after Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe claimed that reports of political violence were "lies".Opposition M...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 3678 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube shoots down $9 trillion budget bids by ministries
FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube last week dismissed line ministries' 2023 budget bids of $9 trillion, saying the proposed figures were too high unless government was to borrow.The minister told...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:03hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: Fireworks expected
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will storm into next week's Zanu-PF elective congress seeking to tighten his grip on power as his age is likely to trigger a fierce succession debate.The ruling pa...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers fed isitshwala and beans, publicly ridiculed
THE dire state of government finances has now come into perspective with Cabinet ministers warning of crisis situations in key security services such as the military and the police as Treasury swung t...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:18hrs | 5973 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs meet Mnangagwa and Chiwenga over allowances
DISGRUNTLED Zanu-PF members of Parliament on Wednesday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga at State House, where they complained bitterly about their incapacitatio...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:24hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe summoned as tempers flare up
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has been summoned to Parliament to issue a ministerial statement on what the police is doing to clamp down on perpetrators of political violence targeting opposit...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs demand answers on Belarus bus deal
OPPOSITION legislators have demanded that Local Government minister July Moyo should appear in Parliament to explain the whereabouts of Zimbabwe Passenger Company (Zupco) buses purchased by government...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
MPs say forced to stay in grubby Harare lodges
LEGISLATORS have been forced to put up in sub-standard lodges in Harare, footing their own bills, as the treasury has not paid hotel bills since July 2022, NewZimbabwe.com can reveal.One of th...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
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