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Whipping system in Parliament silencing Matebeleland MPs
The parliamentary whipping system employed by Zimbabwe's political parties is stifling the voices of legislators from the Matebeleland region, contributing to the region's continued marginalisation an...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 08:32hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
CCC Bulawayo councillors disregard recall, attend Chamisa event
Despite the possibility of recalls for showing allegiance to another political body, several councillors elected on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ticket attended a meeting in Bulawayo led by...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents have been hit by a water crisis with most suburbs going for days without running water following a burst pipeline connecting Ncema Water Treatment Works and Criterion Water Treatmen...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Republic Party threatens mass action
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has threatened mass action if the preliminary delimitation report produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is adopted in its current form.The part...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 13:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Energy Minister absconds Parliament for 2 months amid deepening power crisis
PARLIAMENTARIANS have demanded that Energy Minister Soda Zhemu avails himself to the National Assembly to respond to questions regarding continuous power outages that have been going on for months wit...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi speaks on Vice President post
Former Deputy Minister of Information Energy Mutodi has said the debate on the replacement of resigned Vice President Kembo Mohadi should continue....Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:28hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's spin doctor says MPs are ignorant
ZIMBABWEANS will have to wait for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a Vice-President in his own time, presidential spokesperson George Charamba said, and called Members of Parliament agitating f...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to appoint 2nd VP
AN opposition MP yesterday said that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should appoint a second Vice-President to fill in the void left by former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi who resigned last year after a s...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Parly backs 'striking' teachers
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday asked the government to urgently address the plight of teachers after the Public Service Commission suspended thousands of teachers and embarked on recruitment exercis...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition MPs confront Ziyambi
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has denied opposition claims there was selective application of the law in the country.Opposition MPs Wednesday accused government of arbitrary arrests and det...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube cornered over US$10m loan deal
GOVERNMENT's insatiable appetite for borrowing has once again come under scrutiny after legislators grilled Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday over Treasury's decision to borrow US$10 million f...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt acts on corruption in land distribution
Government has reviewed the policy on allocation of vacant land and restructured the Provincial and District Lands committee to curb rampant corruption, legislators have heard.Lands, Agricultu...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's pro-sanctions MPs are terrorists'
ZANU-PF and opposition MPs yesterday made a contest of raising points of privileges to counter each other in the House regarding the poor state of the economy, with the ruling party chief whip Pupurai...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stocks year's supply of ARVs
Zimbabwe has enough anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that will last the next 12 months after Government secured funding to procure the life-prolonging therapy, Parliament has heard. Health and Child Care M...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Expanding economy driving fuel demand'
The huge demand for fuel, which has caused supply challenges and spawned fuel queues across the country, is testimony that economic activity has expanded significantly over the past year or so, Reserv...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magalela Sibanda eying MDC vice presidency
FORMER Magwegwe MP, Felix Magalela Mafa-Sibanda has revealed his interest to seek election as MDC vice president at a time his boss Nelson Chamisa has warned against canvassing for posts among party p...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Parliament probes Mliswa over $400 000 bribe
A PARLIAMENTARY probe team will be set up to look into allegations that Mines Portfolio Committee chairperson, Temba Mliswa, and three other MPs demanded a $400 000 bribe while carrying out an inquiry...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mines Permanent Secretary in 'baptism of fire'
Legislators yesterday grilled Mines and Mining Development Permanent Secretary Mr Onesimo Moyo over delays in appointing a board for the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, saying it might per...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet, Zimpapers and AMH broadcasting licences illegal
THE Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services violated the law by awarding broadcasting licenses in the absence of a Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) board, Parliament heard...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magwegwe drama and No elections
They've postponed Magwegwe MP elections 5 times in a bid to frustrate the electorate and win one for Anale Ndebele the sitting MP. I want to love the party and help it but I sincerely don't see ...Published: 26 May 2018 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Felix Takunda Madzana
Khupe rigged him and he stands
As a parliamentarian, he was an effective prolific debater second to non. Those who worked with him in parliament will attest that he had a way of persuading people without causing conflict. A gentlem...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 20:42hrs | 20 | by Henery Madiro
Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda calls for General Strike in Zimbabwe
The nurses in Zimbabwe are on strike. The doctors have joined. And Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda wants to shut the whole country down and quickly resolve the problems. A technique he knows too well. ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Mlungisi Gwenya - Metro Youth News
Zimbabwe Ndebele culture rejected on Facebook
My name is Divine Mafa -ilifa Sibanda and the son of Trade unionist Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda. I paid $50.00 to promote the Ndebele culture on Facebook and it was declined. The Ndebele poet ...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 01:25hrs | 10 | by Devine Mafa - Dokotela
Khaya Moyo misled nation on new radio station
Minister of Information Simon Khaya Moyo surreptitiously licenced a radio station Khuluma FM in Bulawayo without calling for public applications or hearings, Parliament heard this week.Khuluma...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa plots anti-Mnangagwa protests
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa (pictured) has threatened massive streets protests if President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government fails to implement 10 electoral reforms demanded by the MDC Allia...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
4 ex-ministers face probe over Chivayo deals
FOUR former Energy ministers, who served under ex-President Robert Mugabe between 2013 and 2017 are being investigated for allegedly turning the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) into their feeding trough,...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe implicated in Chivayo shady deals
DEPOSED President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace were yesterday named in businessman Wicknell Chivayo's shady $7 million Gwanda solar project, as members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on ...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'torture of arrested persons forbidden'
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the torture of arrested persons is forbidden as the country is party to the international treaty against the practice.The VP was responding...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland MPs warn of tribal clashes over land
Magwegwe MP, Anele Ndebele (MDC-T) and his Zanu-PF Pumula counterpart, Godfrey Malaba have warned of tribal clashes over the land issue in Matabeleland, as "outsiders" continue to be resettled in ...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
One has to be funny to be appointed minister in Zimbabwe - Ndebele
Magwegwe MP Anele Ndebele has told Parliament that according to his observations in Zimbabwe one has to do something funny in order to be appointed minister.Speaking in the house, Ndebele said...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu-PF hates people from Matabeleland'
MAGWEGWE MP Anele Ndebele (MDC-T) has claimed the Zanu-PF government hates people from Matabeleland, adding the State had a hand in influencing the South African government to deny residence permits t...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Fight over the MDC-T logo overtaken by events,' says Judge
THE fight over the MDC-T logo and campaign materials between the party and four members who had rebelled against the MDC-T and chose to stand as independent candidates at last year's elections, c...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fletcher Dulini Ncube - Funeral Update
****Funeral Update****Funeral arrangements for founder member of the MDC, Chaiperson of the Council of Elders and former Treasurer General, Fletcher Dulini Ncube who passed on yesterday at Ma...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 13:46hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T MP 'assaults' MDC-T activist
AN MDC-T activist needed hospital treatment after he was assaulted by Magwegwe MP Anele Ndebele, also of the same party, in clashes following a divisive weekend restructuring exercise of the party's p...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 08:29hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Moves to expel MDC-T MP
MAGWEGWE MP Anele Ndebele has alleged that there are moves to expel him from the MDC-T on charges of links to the renewal team saying possible replacements have been identified to take over his seat....Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 16:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP acquitted
MAGWEGWE MP Anele Ndebele of the MDC-T was on Monday found not guilty of assaulting party members he reportedly accused of convening a meeting without his knowledge. Ndebele was denying the c...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai loyalists kidnap renewal team member
On Saturday Morgan Tsvangirai loyalists allegedly assaulted youths belonging to the Renewal Team, a faction so named after Secretary General Tendai Biti led calls for the leadership renewal within...Published: 26 May 2014 at 21:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP suspended for assaulting a party member
THE MDC-T's Bulawayo provincial executive has suspended Magwegwe MP Anele Ndebele for allegedly assaulting a party member in November 2013.Ndebele was suspended on Friday and sources said the ...Published: 26 May 2014 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa clash
Xolisani NcubeA parliamentary debate on corruption in state enterprises Wednesday turned into a political hotbed between the ruling Zanu-PF and MDC-T as both parties laid blame on each oth...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 09:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T rotting from the head,' says Mnangagwa
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday claimed in the National Assembly that the MDC-T, was "rotting from the head" as indicative of the problems they were exp...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T rebels form new party
THE MDC-T rebels who were fired from the party for defying a directive not to contest the July 31 parliamentary and council elections as independents have formed a breakaway party - the Zimbabwe Indep...Published: 20 Aug 2013 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai must step down, says ex-ally
FORMER Magwegwe MP Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda has urged MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai to step down saying he must take responsibility for the party's loss in the just-ended harmonised elections....Published: 05 Aug 2013 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police raid top MDC official's home
Three men claiming to be police officers on Tuesday allegedly raided MDC Council of Elders chairman Fletcher Dulini Ncube's Hillside home and stole a mobile phone.Ncube, the former Lobengula-...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 08:02hrs | | by Senior Reporter
68 Zim lawmakers volunteer to be circumcised
Sixty-eight Zimbabwean members of parliament have volunteered to go for male circumcision on Friday in a campaign to curb the spread of HIV and Aids. Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Parliame...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 14:25hrs | | by Ndou Paul
No salary freeze for civil servants says Tsvangirai
THERE is no salary freeze for civil servants because Cabinet does not have such a policy, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday.The PM said Government was, instead, committed to imp...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi law - Rights groups' silence is frightening
Felix Magalela Sibanda, the Magwegwe MP of the MDC-T, has criticised human rights and civil society organisations for failing to support his efforts to table the Gukurahundi Bill in Parliament....Published: 12 Jun 2012 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzila-Ndlovu to campaign for Gukurahundi bill
Co-National Healing minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu has said he will lobby ministers and politicians from Matabeleland to campaign to force the urgent enactment of the Gukurahundi Bill in Parliament....Published: 11 Jun 2012 at 07:29hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
No compensation for Gukurahundi victims
THERE is no law to provide compensation to victims of political disturbances in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa told Parliamentarians yesterday.He ...Published: 07 Jun 2012 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T backs Border Gezi training concept
MDC-T legislators yesterday made a major climb-down by admitting that vocational training centres are important for youth development.The party has in the past discredited the training centre...Published: 16 May 2012 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo must be expelled from parliament - MDC-T
MAGWEGWE MP Mr Felix Sibanda (MDC-T) yesterday said he will soon move a motion calling for the expulsion of Tsholotsho North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo from the House of Assembly for allegedly failin...Published: 16 May 2012 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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