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Mliswa, Nduna dropped from Parly committees
PARLIAMENT has removed Norton and Chegutu West legislators, Mr Temba Mliswa and Dexter Nduna, from their positions as portfolio committee chairpersons. Mr Mliswa was the chairperson of the Min...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
Parly ratifies African Charter on democracy, elections
PARLIAMENT on Tuesday ratified the African Charter on Democracy and Elections and Governance, which, among other things, is meant to enhance the quality of elections in Africa, promote human rights, s...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:36hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Kereke caught up in Parliament storm
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly by Norton MP Temba Mliswa over reports that incarcerated former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke was enjoying co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3055 | by Staff reporter
Residents plot to petition Parly over baboon menace
RESIDENTS of Kariba have threatened to approach Parliament to register their complaints over the increasing baboon population in the area saying the apes were now a menace, especially in the residenti...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Parly won't prejudice MPs on vehicles
Parliament will not discriminate between Members of Parliament who hold positions in the August House and those who do not, in the allocation of resources meant for their car scheme. Respondin...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Consumer rights group to lobby Parly over data bundles costs
A CONSUMER rights' watchdog has launched a campaign against high mobile data costs, after recent reports showed that Zimbabwe had some of the most expensive data tariffs on the continent.This ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:46hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: ED PFEE number plates causing problems
Transport deputy minister, Fortune Chasi responds to question on more than one car using the “ED Pfee” number plateP...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 09:48hrs | 8507 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya to appear before Parly committee
The Reserve Bank Governor of Zimbabwe, Dr John Panonetsa Mangudya, is set to appear before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee to explain several monetary issues as the august House resumes sit...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Parly sues Motor City Toyota over undelivered vehicles
PARLIAMENT has petitioned the High Court, seeking an order to compel Motor City Toyota (MCT) to supply three Toyota Hilux double-cab vehicles, which were paid for two years ago.The company all...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:57hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
LIVE- All eye on Mangudya #MonetaryPolicyStatement speech
THE governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Dr John Mangudya will today (Wednesday) at 14:30hrs release the long-awaited Monetary Policy Statement (MPS). The market is eagerly waiting t...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:16hrs | 10804 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa-led Parliament committee dissolved
Parliament's Committee of Standing Rules and Orders yesterday dissolved the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development and is set to unveil a Privileges Committee to investigate...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:06hrs | 3663 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's business people must actively consider running for Parliament,
Zimbabwe's business people must actively consider running for Parliament, a former United Nations under-secretary general has said, adding it would be their only path to influence public policy as the...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:13hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo lawsuit crumbles
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's $9 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) and its journalists crumble...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:08hrs | 1993 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Sheik Chinotimba sets social media ablaze
Sheik Chinotimba sets social media ablaze...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 15:51hrs | 3988 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa ups ante on Nduna, calls for investigation
DRAMA continued in Parliament yesterday as Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) insisted on having Chegutu West legislator Dextor Nduna (Zanu PF) investigated for alleged self-confessed murder....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:23hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Temba Mliswa links Dexter Nduna to Dzamara's disappeance
Norton Member of Parliament has called for the investigations on Chegutu West Member of Parliament over the disappearance of Itai Dzamara and the recent army killings that happened after the January 1...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:32hrs | 7382 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parliament to summon Mupfumira
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment and Tourism will summon the minister of Environment Prisca Mupfumira over the continued destruction of wetlands in Harare.Committee chairpe...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:18hrs | 2429 | 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 | 2174 | 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 | 2486 | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp gives away Mliswa's shady deals
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa, who is in the eye of a storm for allegedly soliciting for a bribe from a local businessman, has claimed to belong to very powerful cartels after being cornered by fello...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 16:12hrs | 6898 | by Staff reporter
Military rape cases spill into Parly
THE issue of rape of women during the recent protests yesterday spilled into Parliament, with Kuwadzana legislator Miriam Mushayi (MDC Alliance) giving notice to introduce a motion to debate the abuse...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Investment bill to be gazetted in 2-3 weeks
THE Zimbabwe Investment Development Authority Bill (Zida) is set to be gazetted within the next few weeks. The merging of the country's investment entities mooted in May 2018 is inspired by th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:52hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs heckle MDC MP in parly complaint over state crackdown
ZANU-PF MPs Tuesday heckled MDC legislator Innocent Gonese as he tried to raise a formal complaint through the house against an ongoing state crackdown on those accused of taking part in recent anti-g...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1255 | by newzimbabwe.com
Treasury boss grilled over unbudgeted expenditure
Finance ministry secretary George Guvamatanga was yesterday grilled by Parliament for Treasury's failure to disclose unbudgeted expenditure and debt contraction in contravention of the Public Debt Man...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:28hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Biti leads Parly roast of finance ministry over budget overruns
FINANCE ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga and his top team had a torrid time Monday before the Parliament's public accounts committee as they were grilled over government's runaway expen...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:12hrs | 580 | by newzimbabwe.com
Parliament commends Zimbabwe army
Parliament has commended the Ministry of Defence and War Veterans Affairs for taking the lead in complying with provisions of the Public Finance Management Act in submitting periodic financial stateme...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:59hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Parly urged to amend laws to tame police, army brutality
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has challenged Parliament to ensure that section 210 of the Constitution is implemented and enforced to reduce growing cases of civilians being victimised b...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:20hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Is it back to normal in Harare?
A Twitter account that monitors politics in Zimbabwe has been sharing some pictures of the capital, Harare, which was hit by violence last week over a rise in the price of fuel.The government ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:08hrs | 6612 | by BBC
Zimbabwe parliament sets up enquiry into mobile data costs
PARLIAMENT will next month institute an enquiry into mobile data costs amid concerns from consumers that network operators have astronomically raised charges.In an interview, Parliamentary Por...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:53hrs | 180 | 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 | 658 | by Blessings Mashaya
Zimbabwe parly protests suspension of platinum tax
Lawmakers are not happy with Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's move to suspend a 15 percent tax on raw platinum exports until January 2022 to give the mining firms time to set up smelters ad refineries....Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube grilled over 2% tax
MDC legislators last week grilled Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi over the legality of the two percent tax which was introduced in October this year.Speaking...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:43hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
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 | 342 | by Caroline Chiimba
BAZ boss grilled over issuance of radio, TV licences
BROADCASTING Authority of Zimbabwe chief executive, Obert Muganyura was yesterday grilled by Parliament over issuance of Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD) webcast radio and television licences this year ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:50hrs | 528 | by Staf 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 | 235 | by Staff reporter
1 August killings report to be released today
The governement has announced that the much-awaited report of the post-election violence that rocked Harare on 1 August will be released today after the cabinet meeting. Addr...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 13:38hrs | 2057 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mawere to testify before a parliamentary panel on SMM
Zimbabwe lawmakers have formally okayed a request by South Africa-based businessman Mutumwa Mawere to explain at a portfolio committee hearing how the government seized his Shabanie Mashaba Mines (SMM...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:03hrs | 306 | 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 | 3504 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Drama at Tendai Biti's trial
There was drama at Tendai Biti's trial on Tuesday after the lawyers representing Mr. Biti told presiding Magistrate Takundwa that a member of the prosecuting authority had insulted the mag...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 10:54hrs | 9279 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF wants MDC legislators punished for contempt of Parly
Parliament's standing rules and orders should be tweaked to enable it to punish opposition MPs whose conduct have become a "nuisance" in the House by disrupting business of the House, a Cabinet minist...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:48hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Nick Mangwana speaks about community radios
The permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information,Publicity and Broadcasting Services Nick Mangwana has urged media stakeholders to think deeply about the meaning of community when it comes to li...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:12hrs | 178 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC legislators are confused
Dear Sir, The opposition has been very critical of the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi for his position that opposition legislators should not expect resp...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:16hrs | 1189 | by Elijah Chihota
WATCH: ZANU PF MPs disrupt Hwange colliery hearing
ZANU PF members of parliament on Monday disrupted a hearing of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Mines and Energy after slumlord billionaire Nicholas Van Hoogstraten was about to give his evid...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:16hrs | 4699 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Zimbabwe's new parliament building unveiled
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today officially break ground for the new parliament building located at Mt Hampden. The New Parliament Building is a China-aid project and a donation to the country....Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 08:19hrs | 7171 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chinotimba blasts Parly admin
Member of Parliament for Buhera South Joseph Chinotimba has accused administrators at Parliament of fuelling the current price madness in the economy, the Daily News can report.This was after ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 14:08hrs | 3864 | by Staff reporter
'Zim Airways not part of Air Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe Airways is a completely different and autonomous entity from Air Zimbabwe and is therefore not part of the reconstruction process, Ministry of Transport of Infrastructure Development Ac...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
'Conflicted' Mliswa blocked from parly portfolio committee
INDEPENDENT Norton MP Temba Mliswa has been blocked from joining the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Lands, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement on allegations that he was conflicte...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:15hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Parly antics a betrayal of the electorate
On Tuesday, this week, Parliament had to adjourn prematurely following ZANU legislators' objection to the MDC-T Chamisa faction Dangamvura-Chikanga legislator, Prosper Mutseyami's mischievous claim th...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 13:44hrs | 1052 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Great Dyke Investments boss faces Parly contempt charges
GREAT Dyke Investments chief operating officer Munashe Shava faces contempt of Parliament charges after he failed to disclose the shareholding structure of the firm which has platinum and coal mining ...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:56hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Allocate reasonable budget to Parly, begs Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has called on the Finance ministry to allocate a reasonable budget to Parliament as well as prioritise the construction of the new Parliament building in...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:39hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
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