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Parliament shortlists 47 candidates for ZAAC
Parliament has shortlisted 47 candidates from 145 nominations to serve on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), with public interviews scheduled for December 19 as part of the rigorous selec...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:47hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai threatens to quit MDC-T
MDC-T legislator Vincent Tsvangirai has made a turnabout saying he will not contest in upcoming 2023 elections if party leader Douglas Mwonzora remains at the helm of the opposition.Tsvangirai...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chebundo's ambitious promise to Zanu-PF collapses
FORMER MDC-T legislator Blessing Chebundo's Zanu-PF promise to win back two Kwekwe seats for President Emmerson Mnangagwa spectacularly collapsed, denting his capacity to deliver, amid high expectatio...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa speech hot air'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said that the country's economy was on rebound, with this year's projections indicating over 7,8% economic growth, but opposition MPs rubbished his claims, accus...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exporting waste for recycling
ZIMBABWE is now collecting waste and exporting it to Dubai for recycling, Parliament was told yesterday.This was disclosed by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) director-general Aaron C...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti set to lose Parly car
PARLIAMENT has approached the High Court to repossess top-of-the-range vehicles it issued to six former People's Democratic Party (PDP) MPs following their recall and expulsion from Parliament in Marc...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'RG's Office using archaic equipment'
THE Registry department is running on archaic machines that cannot do mass production of identity documents, Home Affairs deputy minister Ruth Maboyi-Mavhungu told Parliament yesterday.She was...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Minister under fire over demolitions
MDC-T legislator Peter Moyo (Southerton) yesterday called for the resignation of National Housing minister caused by Daniel Garwe accusing him of being responsible for the chaos caused by demolition o...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's 'demands' to Mnangagwa revealed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was asked by MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora to consider scrapping pending byelections when the two met under controversial circumstances at State House on June 11, The Stan...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa chucked out of Parly for calling Ziyambi 'murderer'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa was Wednesday chucked out of the NationalAssembly after alleging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had visited traditional and faith healers with the aim of killing....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police in pirate taxis storm
MEMBERS of Parliament have expressed concern over pirate taxis which they said were being allowed to operate throughout the country without hindrance, as most of them are owned by police officers....Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora helping Zanu-PF to consolidate tyranny'
The Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance has castigated the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T legislators, for helping Zanu-PF to pass the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill 2 which they have labelled a ...Published: 15 May 2021 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC legislator slaps Mliswa in Parly
There was drama in Parliament yesterday after MDC-T legislator, Ms Memory Mbondiya slapped outspoken Norton legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa forcing the Public Accounts Committee meeting to disband. ...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF policies attractive to MDC-T'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday claimed that its policies were attracting MDC-T legislators who voted for the passage of Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill, which was signed into law by President E...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora and MDC-T working for their supper
THE move by the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora members of the National Assembly and senators to vote in favour of the Constitutional Amendment Number 2 in a marriage of convenience with Zanu-PF showed ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora could be digging his own grave
Douglas Mwonzora's support for controversial amendments to the constitution is a mistake that could destroy his political career because the changes to the supreme law are not popular among the electo...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU boss slams 'sell-out' MDC-T MPs supporting Mnangagwa bill
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says opposition MDC-T legislators who last week voted in support of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 were sell-outs.The proposed law seeks to...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Khupe lobbies for cushion fund for teenage mothers
MDC-T legislator Dr Thokozani Khuphe has lobbied the government to assist young girls who fell pregnant during the course of the Covid-19 induced national lockdown period in order to enable them to su...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Misihairabwi-Mushonga fumes over 0 % grade 7 pass rates
MDC-T legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has urged government to allow pupils who failed their 2020 Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) Grade 7 exams to rewrite the crucial test....Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gazettes 3 MDC-T seats vacancies
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has gazetted vacancies for three more proportional representation National Assembly seats following the recall of legislators by the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets Harare seats
THE Zanu-PF Harare province has completed primary elections and is now geared for by-elections following the recall of seven MDC-T legislators and 22 councillors. The party's provincial interi...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says expelled MPs, councillors deserved it
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has defended ongoing recalls on MDC-T legislators and councillors he says deserved their expulsions.He was speaking to journalists Wednesday soon after...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heroic mother who saved baby from crocodile grip honoured
CHIREDZI woman Morina Musisinyani (30) who, in April this year saved her three-year-old son from the jaws of a crocodile, was honoured on Friday by a feminist organisation.Whispers, whose lead...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Black Friday and the new Chiwenga law
THREE very interesting but equally disturbing, sinister and disruptive developments took place last Friday.The Supreme Court granted the MDC-T party an extension to hold its long-overdue c...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's new envoys told to 'engage, re-engage'
NEW ambassadors appointed by President Mnangagwa recently should consider themselves strategic agents in the re-engagement process, which is central to the country's objective of achieving an upper mi...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
SA company wants MDC-T garnished over R4m debt
A SOUTH African wholesale textile company and a Bulawayo garment manufacturing firm which supplied MDC-T with 200 000 T- shirts and head scarves in 2008 have approached the High Court seeking an order...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers derail Parliament committee hearing
ORAL evidence of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to look into a matter involving four legislators affiliated to the Mines Committee who allegedly demanded a $400 000 bribe from businessm...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 15:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in frank discussions with Matebeleland civic groups?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday held frank and robust discussions with Matebeleland civic groups at the State House in Bulawayo, stressing the need for national cohesion and collective efforts in taking...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Treasury still to direct banks on inter-bank trade: MDC-T MP
MDC-T legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has alleged that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has not instructed banks to implement the United States dollar to RTGS dollar 1:2,5 inter trade rate ann...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is a Zanu-PF project'
The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T has revealed that the main opposition party fronted by Nelson Chamisa is a Zanu-PF project whose agenda is to subvert the people's struggle.Fierce succession figh...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bootlickers lashed out at
MDC-T legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga yesterday blasted excessive bootlicking of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife, First Lady Auxillia, by individuals and organisations whom she sa...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri's imposter in court for swindling farmers
AN unrepentant ex-convict who allegedly registered cellphone lines in the name of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri and used them to swindle unsuspectin...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga win prestigious African Awards
UNITED Kingdom based Zimbabwean and female football agent Ellen Chiwenga has been named the Best African Woman making a difference in Sports Category at the Africa Virtuous Women Awards (AVWA) 2018....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cross is a pathological lair - Ruhanya
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has describe former MDC-T legislator Eddie Cross as a liar in his previous economic based remarks in which he at some point claimed that $40 billion in diamond r...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa disobeyed Tsvangirai, says Eddie Cross
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa fairly lost the just ended elections because he disregarded the election road map that was agreed upon by the party and endorsed by the late leade...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally Cross says Mnangagwa will get a thumping majority
TOP MDC-T politician and legislator Eddie Cross says President Emmerson Mnangagwa was headed for a thumping defeat of his main rival, Nelson Chamisa of MDC Alliance.Cross was speaking to NewZi...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates in door-to-door campaign
ZANU-PF's Mutare Central and Dangamvura or Chikanga parliamentary candidates Nancy Saungweme and Esau Mupfumi have embarked on door-to-door campaigns as they seek direct interaction with the electorat...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T has failed Mufakose'
FreeZim Congress Party candidate for Mufakose National Assembly seat Mr Desire Ncube says opposition MDC-T legislator Ms Paurina Mpariwa Gwanyanya has presided over regression in the constituency....Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance set to challenge Zinwa boss candidature
THE MDC-Alliance is set to file an urgent court application at the High Court today (Monday) against the Zimbabwe National Water Authority chief executive officer Jefta Sakupwanya to cancel his candid...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mashakada deal could hand Hatfield to Zanu-PF
MDC-T legislator Dr Tapiwa Mashakada could have handed Zanu-PF the Hatfield seat on a silver platter after successfully filing his papers on an MDC Alliance ticket, knowing fully well that he might ha...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staffr eporter
Majome to contest as an independent, exposes vote rigging shenanigans
MDC-T Member of Parliament for Harare West constituency, Jessie Majome who recently withdrew her candidature in the party's primary elections citing irregularities has announced her decision to stand ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 18:05hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Jessie Majome withdraws from MDC Alliance?
MDC-T legislator for Harare West constituency Ms Jessie Majome has withdrawn her candidature in the opposition party's primary elections, saying the playing field was not level.Ms Majome, the ...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fierce fight over electoral law amendments
ELECTORAL amendments still remain a pipedream after Justice minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi on Tuesday negated almost all proposed amendments to the Electoral Amendment Bill by MDC-T chief whip, Innocent Go...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zapu candidate promises constituency development policies
ZAPU's aspiring parliamentary candidate for Bulawayo Central, Iphithule Maphosa has pledged to facilitate development of a permanent constituency development policy to guide implementation of various ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube deputy in car crash with CIO agent
THE Welshman Ncube led MDC has claimed an assassination plot on party deputy President Edwin Mushoriwa who on Friday survived a car accident involving a member of the dreaded Central Intelligence Orga...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 22:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ignorant of the law
THE wrangle over leadership of the opposition MDC-T degenerated into a mud-slinging match at the weekend, with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's supporters dismissing their rivals' just-ended extra...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our independence so near yet so far - Majome
MDC-T legislator for Harare West Jessie Majome has said the independence which was attained by the country in 1980 was something that people celebrated yet the true independence is still far from them...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dismissing nurses for demanding their right is retrogressive - former MDC-T MP
Former MDC-T legislator Settlement Chikwinya has described the dismissal of nurses for demanding their dues as retrogressive and unsustainable move.Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Tuesd...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa never promised to end cash shortages in 100 days'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa never promised the nation that cash shortages will end in his first 100 days in office after Operation Restore Legacy, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told Parliament yes...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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