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Zanu-PF's Moyo under fire over poor record record
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo is under the spotlight for presiding over several failed and unfulfilled projects in the province since he was appointed minister in 2017....Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 15:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
8 MPs miss swearing-in ceremony
Eight Members of Parliament who were not sworn in yesterday in Harare have accused the Clerk of Parliament of sending out short notices.The newly-elected MPs were sworn in at the new parliamen...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 19:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC's Prince Dubeko Sibanda outsmarts ZANU PF's Richard Moyo in Matebeleland North
Matabeleland North province has been known to be a ZANU PF stronghold and no go area for the opposition. Political dynamics have evolved, shaping the landscape and ideologies within a given region...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Richard Munkuli Binga
Jack hammer thief bashed to death
A suspected jack hammer thief was bashed to death by an angry mob on Independence day at Tilas Mine in Bulawayo....Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Preliminary Delimitation Report tabled before Parliament
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) preliminary delimitation report has been tabled in the National Assembly following its presentation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa electoral body's c...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'has already identified his new Chief Justice and RBZ head'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has appointed a team to "overshadow" government ministries in parliament with insiders describing the development as demonstrative of the party's rea...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa names shona dominated CCC shadow cabinet
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has named his shadow cabinet, which interestingly does not constitute his loyalist MPs who remain in parliament under the MDC Alliance identit...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 19:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
23 arrested for bribing police
POLICE on Friday turned down bribe offers by 23 motorists they had nabbed for traffic offences at a roadblock in Norton and arrested them for an additional crime of bribery.The four hours blit...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Growing number of Zimbabwe couples opt for child adoption
IN most families, news that a loved one is going to have a child is usually received with joy.But when Kuteesa "Tess" Gweshe and her husband announced that they were going to have two more chi...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers worried over post by-election violence
BINGA villagers have expressed worries over the escalation of the post by election violence as they are reportedly accused by the ruling Zanu PF activists of voting for the opposition Citizen Coalitio...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 10:37hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's govt urges SA based Zimbabweans to come back home
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has urged Zimbabweans who sought economic refuge in South Africa and are now under attack by xenophobia-crazed locals to return home claiming the country's ec...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa retains majority of MDC Alliance seats
THE recently-formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa grabbing 22 National Assembly seats out of the 28 which were up for grabs, while the Douglas Mwonzora-led party failed to ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo slams Chamisa
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has slated opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa for pushing for the reopening of churches even as Covid-19 continues to spread rapidly....Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 15:59hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Milton High School pupil goes missing
A BOY, last seen kicking a football up a street on October 3, has not been seen since then. The disappearance of 16-year-old Prince Sibanda, a Form Three pupil at Bulawayo's Milton High School...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Banana Republicans criminalise criticism
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has criminalised the statement "Zanu-PF Must Go", taking it to mean inciting public violence.The curious case of legislator for Binga, Prince Sibanda, who was this...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti already owns 'Mnangagwa' diplomatic passport
ZANU-PF legislator Kindness Paradza (Makonde) has accused his MDC counterparts' snub of diplomatic passports offered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa government as a cheap publicity stunt as some of th...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'MDC MPs' passports snub a publicity stunt'
ZANU-PF legislator Kindness Paradza (Makonde) has accused his MDC counterparts' snub of diplomatic passports offered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa government as a cheap publicity stunt as some of th...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parly raps Multichoice over forex payments
Parliamentarians yesterday rapped Multichoice Zimbabwe for demanding payment of DStv subscriptions in foreign currency. It also emerged that Multichoice was obliged to carry Zimbabwe television networ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to address high-profile rallies in Lupane East
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will address two high-profile rallies in Lupane East ahead of the parliamentary by-election in the constituency on August 3 where the opposition party will try to wrestle the...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the pretence to unity
AT the burial of liberation icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna recently, MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa postured as a unifying figure vowing to work towards uniting the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
'I prefer to be led by MDC' says Mliswa
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says if he is to sit in another Parliamentary portfolio Committee he would choose the one that is led by an MDC MP than a ZANU PF pne. In a tweet...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 10:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sikhala ordered to step aside in Mliswa Parly probe
Zengeza West legislator and lawyer Mr Job Sikhala was yesterday barred from representing two parliamentarians facing allegations of demanding a $400 000 bribe from a local businessman after the commit...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Another ZBC reporter dies after a short illness
ZBC reporter, Desmond Duri has died.Duri (40) died in Harare early today after a short illness.He joined the national broadcaster on the 1st of February 2009 as a reporter based at Poc...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:32hrs | 9 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira chairs team to probe Mliswa
PARLIAMENT's Committee of Standing Rules and Orders has appointed Council of Chiefs president Fortune Charumbira to chair the Privileges Committee that was set up to investigate allegations against No...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:40hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament meets over Temba Mliswa bribe
Parliament's Committee of Standing Rules and Orders is expected to meet today and constitute a Privileges Committee to investigate allegations against Norton legislator and three others that they dema...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:01hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa to hand himself over to the police
Notorn Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has, through his lawyers, written to the Zimbabwe Republic Police indicating that he is willing to turn himself to the police after hearing that a report of so...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 12:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa 'exposed', in '$400 000 bribe demand'
MEMBERS of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman keen to mine coal at Hwange Colliery, we can exclusively reveal. The a...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rejects MDC-T proposals
Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday rejected proposals by MDC-T to legislate, through the Electoral Amendment Bill, for an open tender for the procurement of ballot papers, saying this would...Published: 09 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sin taxes must finance health
Legislators on Tuesday recommended that Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa introduce sin taxes on unhealthy sugary foods and an additional tax on swipe transactions in order to get additional funding ...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Banks have right to refuse opening accounts'
FINANCE deputy minister Terrence Mukupe has said banks have the right to refuse opening accounts for new clients as they are private enterprises.Responding to MDC-T legislator Bacilli Majaya i...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawmakers debate condom provision to prisoners
Lawmakers and other stakeholders are seized with the unenviable task of crafting strategies on how best to prevent HIV transmission in prisons where the disease prevalence rate is more than twice the ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rapist throw live frog at magistrate in court
A VILE robber and rapist serving a 20-year sentence yesterday threw a live frog at a magistrate accusing him of being biased against him.(image)Xolisani Nkala (30) is alleged to have raped two...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Phelekezela Mphoko is my witness, rapist tells magistrate
A cheeky rapist and robber Xolisani Nkala (30) threw a live frog at a magistrate accusing him of being biased against him and demanded that Vice president Phelekezela Mphoko be summoned to court...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 05:09hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man rapes woman while she had infant strapped to her back
A VILE robber and rapist serving a 20-year sentence was yesterday back in court for allegedly violating a woman and recording the sickening sex attack on video.The man allegedly wore a con...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai consoles Siyachilaba community
President Tsvangirai yesterday paid his condolences to chief Siyachilaba in Binga North following the death of nine members of his community who were struck by lightning at a funeral. ...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 11:58hrs | 3 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
War as MDC-T, police clash in Parliament
A scuffle erupted yesterday in the National Assembly between MDC-T legislators and the Zimbabwe Republic Police after law enforcement agents entered the chamber to enforce a directive by Deputy Sp...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs threaten auditors
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Secretary Virginia Mabhiza has revealed that government officials auditing the Constituency Development Fund were threatened with violence by some legislators....Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
SIX MDC-T MPs receive death threats in Parly
MDC-T legislator Jesse Majome has claimed that she received death threats ahead of official opening of the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament today.She said a similar message was sent to f...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 16:23hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC-T in plans to disrupt Mugabe's Parliament address
MDC-T has been warned that its plans to disrupt President Mugabe's address during the opening of the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament today will not go unpunished as Parliament has the requisite...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Honourables must behave honourably
The conduct exhibited by the MDC-T members of parliament during the delivery of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Robert Mugabe to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Zanu-PF members attempt to disrupt US envoy meeting
A group of placard waving Zanu-PF members unsuccessfully tried to disrupt a meeting held between US Ambassador Bruce Wharton and members of Zubo in Sikalenge village in Binga last Thursday. ...Published: 23 Mar 2015 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloated Zimbabwe legislature is not sustainable
The proposal by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, that the number of parliamentarians in the country should be reduced, as a way of reducing financial pressure o...Published: 13 Mar 2015 at 11:30hrs | 3 | by John Mukumbo
Bloated payroll a result of GNU, says Chinamasa
The Constitutional amendments proposal to trim a bloated public payroll through streamlining certain Government departments was meant to provoke national debate, Finance and Economic Development Minis...Published: 13 Mar 2015 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Zvamaida Murwira
The bloated legislature is not sustainable in the country
The proposal by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, that the number of parliamentarians in the country should be reduced, as a way of reducing financial pressu...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 19:20hrs | | by John Mukumbo
NetOne buys lucrative frequency from ZBC for $200 million
NetOne has purchased analogue- based broadcasting frequency that was being used by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Transmedia for $200 million, the National Assembly heard on Wednesday....Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 10:41hrs | 5 | by Zvamaida Murwira
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