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Jacob Mudenda caught offside
The MDC finds the utterances by Advocate Mudenda on the capacity of MPs to be unfortunate, reckless and disrespectful.They are an indictment on his leadership and a sad attempt to undermine ou...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2157 | by Kucaca Phulu
Advocate Jacob Mudenda offside
The MDC finds the utterances by Advocate Mudenda on the capacity of MPs to be unfortunate, reckless and disrespectful. They are an indictment on his leadership and a sad attempt to undermine our Const...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 09:40hrs | 3216 | by Kucaca Phulu
Mnangagwa to speak at CEOs conference
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to officiate at the 6th Africa Round Table, which ends here this afternoon. According to the programme, the President is expected to give a keynote add...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy plunges into VUCA environment
Business leaders are frustrated with the inability to anticipate and handle the country's fragile and toxic economy which continues to implode, a situation which has left them in distress.This...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:59hrs | 1731 | by Staff reporter
'I am being abused by fellow MPs'
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Education chairperson, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga yesterday complained that MPs from across the political divide were abusing her and threatened to surrender ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
CEOs call for dialogue between Mnangagwa and Chamisa
BUSINESS executives in the country have called for a national dialogue to address the challenges facing the country. The call follows last week's meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and losin...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda bemoans MPs' lack of economic literacy
SPEAKER of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has bemoaned lack of economic literacy among some of the Members of Parliament saying this was negating efforts to steer the country forward. Speak...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa on a bull rampage
NORTON legislator Mr Temba Mliswa, who has a long history of controversy from sport to business; politics to his love life, is back on a rampage. Whether it is mere attention seeking or a tragic chara...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:54hrs | 2130 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa stirs fresh controversy
NORTON legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa, who has a long history of controversy from sport to business; politics to his love life, is back on a rampage. Whether it is mere attention seeking or a tragic char...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | 2456 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs in near fistfight
TEMPERS flared in Parliament yesterday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Transport Committee chairperson, Dexter Nduna, of il...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2211 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs to improve its trade systems
ZIMBABWE needs to improve its trade systems and proffer enabling monetary and fiscal policies designed to promote international trade, Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has said.S...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:46hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Nduna trade insults
It was ugly business in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development this Monday as proceedings came to a halt with members trading insults in full glare of the media and witn...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:51hrs | 2538 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF plots to embarrass Chamisa at congress
The clampdown on the ring leaders of the national shutdown that left a trail of destruction and over 12 civilians dead at the hands of security forces across the country is a Zanu-PF ploy to target MD...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | 6379 | by Staff reporter
Ministers embarrass Mudenda
TRUANCY by Cabinet ministers during Parliament's question-and-answer sessions every Wednesday has continued despite pleas by the Speaker Jacob Mudenda that the Executive should take business of the Ho...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 5234 | by Staff reporter
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 | 493 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi grilled over child arrests
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was last week grilled in Parliament over the arrest and detention of children on allegations of violence and looting during last month's violent countrywide protests....Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:28hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
'Armed robber' businesswoman in court
A GWANDA based businesswoman has been arrested after she allegedly threatened to shoot a group of mine workers before stealing mining equipment worth $3 760 and $200 cash. Siboniso Sayi (40), ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:27hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
UN condemns Zimbabwe rights abuses
The United Nations has expressed deep concern at reports of people being raped and tortured in the ongoing crackdown against dissent in Zimbabwe and demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:53hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Imprisoned 'looters' approach High Court
THIRTY-FIVE suspects who are languishing in remand prison for allegedly participating in violent protests and looting shops have approached the High Court challenging the court's refusal to grant them...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:37hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa seeks AU, Sadc intervention
MDC vice-president Morgen Komichi yesterday implored the Southern African Development Cooperation (Sadc), the African Union (AU) and the rest of the international community to intervene on the deterio...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs meet over persecution
THE opposition MDC will today hold an urgent caucus meeting to discuss the arrests of several of their legislators over the weekend and persecution of several others who have now gone into hiding afte...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
MDC appeals to Jacob Mudenda over arrested MPs
Dear Mr Speaker Hon. Adv. Jacob Mudenda, Re: UNWARRANTED ARRESTS AND PERSECUTION OF THE MDC MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. I write this letter...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 17:05hrs | 5605 | by Tabitha Khumalo
25 Bulawayo violence ‘hooligans’ appear in court
TWENTY-FIVE suspected hooligans who are alleged to be part of a mob that unleashed violence in Bulawayo, burning cars, property and looting shops, appeared in court yesterday. The accused pers...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:12hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Of mute MPs and their mute brigade
Parliament offers its members many platforms to speak on diverse issues.A member can rise on the floor to table a petition, a private members' Bill, raise a matter of national importance, ask ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:55hrs | 650 | by Blessings Mashaya
Of Zimbabwe Parly fashion police, odd dressers
The National Assembly is hardly the place you would picture participants being dressed down for not dressing appropriately, but opposition legislators Job Sikhala and Trevor Saruwaka have had their ba...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:52hrs | 340 | by Caroline Chiimba
Plot to ban Chamisa dead
A bid by Zanu-PF hardliners to push for a constitutional amendment that would have raised the age limit for presidential candidates to 52 years fell flat at the Zanu-PF conference after the ruling par...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:41hrs | 4528 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pushed Chiwenga against the wall
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa used last week's Zanu-PF annual conference week in Esigodini to further push his main internal rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga against the wall in a major move t...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:05hrs | 13713 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa demands diplomatic passports for MPs
Norton Member of Parliament Temba has rallied Members of Parliament to demand diplomatic passport from the government which is in line with their social status of being called Honourable.Mlisw...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 11:25hrs | 595 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa should apologise for army killings'
OPPOSITION political parties and civic groups have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to publicly apologise to families of people killed and injured by the army and police during the August 1 post...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:43hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube accuse Chamisa's MPs of being dishonest
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday accused opposition MPs of being dishonest by insisting that people are not happy with the 2% levy on electronic transactions, claiming the new tax has widely be...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resolves to block MDC Alliance MPs
ZANU-PF has passed a resolution recommending a constitutional amendment to exclude MPs from Bulawayo and Harare from provincial councils so that they are constituted by elected councillors. Go...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa killed presidential age limit motion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa threw out the contentious motion to up the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years that had been reverently pushed by the war veterans and the ruling party women's leag...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:27hrs | 5170 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF agrees Chamisa age bar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party onSaturday edged closer to shutting opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa out of the 2023 presidential election.This was after a resolution...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 11:00hrs | 17237 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF to increase presidential age limit
THE Zanu-PF 17th Annual National Peoples Conference which ended at Esigodini yesterday came up with a number of resolutions among them that President Mnangagwa is the sole party's candidate for the 20...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:42hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to ammend constitution
ZANU-PF 17TH National People's Conference has mandated its Members of Parliament to push for the amendment of the national constitution section 124.Reding the conference resolutions Advocate J...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 11:50hrs | 10993 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa re-introduces Green Bombers
ZANU PF National People's Conference has adopted a resolution to re-introduce the National Youth Service (popularly known as Green Bombers) in the first quarter of 2019.This was revealed by th...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 11:24hrs | 8809 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa guns for Mudzuri
MDC-Alliance faces a potential split, with party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa set to preside over two high-level meetings today in a drive to have his deputy, Mr Elias Mudzuri, expelled. At least 220 part...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
The day MDC legislators were paid in own coin
Since the beginning of the ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe, MDC legislators have displayed a sickeningly childish behaviour which is unbecoming of an opposition partyanywhere. The lawmakers have sought t...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:48hrs | 1448 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa gets unanimous endorsement
ZANU PF yesterday said all inter-district meetings held across the country have endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's leader and presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections....Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:27hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conference kicks-off
The Zanu-PF 17th annual people's conference kicked off in earnest today with a Politburo meeting which set the tone for the indaba convened at the party headquarters in Harare this Tuesday afternoon....Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 19:32hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
MDC Youths beat up church and civic society members in parliament
There was pandemonium in parliament on Tuesday when angry MDC Youths clad in party regalia came and beat up some petitioners whom they accused of belonging to one of the factions in the MDC-Alli...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 13:37hrs | 3494 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ziyambi chides 'childish' MDC MPs
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has scolded MDC MPs for alleged "tomfoolery" and "childish" behaviour inside the house as he went on to suggest parliament's Standing Rules and Orders could soon be re...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 07:46hrs | 1704 | by newzimbabwe
Mliswa, Wadyajena in fierce war of words
A BLAZING war of words has erupted between outspoken legislators Justice Mayor Wadyajena and Temba Mliswa over control of the influential Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture....Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:13hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers refuse to answer questions from Chamisa's MPs
Parliamentary proceedings descended into yet another farce yesterday when Cabinet ministers refused to answer questions from MDC legislators to protest the opposition's continued refusal to acknowledg...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 15:56hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba identifies prostitute in Parliament
ZANU-PF's Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba caused furore in the National Assembly yesterday after calling MDC Alliance leader of the House Thabitha Khumalo a prostitute, leading to her walking out wi...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:49hrs | 3888 | by Staff reporter
MDC taken to court over parliament salaries
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been taken to court over their continued receiving of parliament salaries yet they do not recognise the President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Thi...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 10:16hrs | 3706 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pressure mounts on Chamisa's MPs
PRESSURE is piling on MDC Alliance legislators who do not recognise the leadership of President Mnangagwa after one of their party members approached the High Court seeking to stop payment of their al...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1834 | by Staff reporter
No need for Chamisa's GNU
The much hyped MDC-Chamisa faction demonstration has come and gone, and one of the key demands in their six-page petition was a dialogue with President Mnangagwa to map the way forward of a Government...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 10:11hrs | 2544 | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
MDC MPs receive death threats on mobile phones
Dozens of opposition legislators have received death threats and are scared stiff for their lives, pushing for a government probe into the intimidation.Spooked Members of Parliament (MPs) who ...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:08hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns truant MPs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday challenged parliamentarians to be accountable to the people who elected them into office and help to push forward the country's vision.Speaking during th...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:15hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
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