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Another former Dembare executive dies
The world of domestic football has suffered another loss this week with the passing of former Premier Soccer League board member and former Dynamos Treasurer, Harrison Mbewe, at the age of 81. Mr. Mbe...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Clerk of Zimbabwe Parliament Zvoma dies
Former Clerk of Zimbabwe Parliament Austin Zvoma has died.A senior Parliament of Zimbabwe official confirmed Zvoma's death today."Yes, it's true, but I am not the family spokesperson. ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa honours wife with govt award
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered his wife Auxillia by awarding her philanthropic work with a Jairos Jiri Humanitarian Gold Award.The honouring of Auxillia's Angel of Hope Foundation c...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Pensioners join Mnangagwa campaign trail
SOME pensioners have launched a shadowy group in support of President Emmerson Mnangagwa named the Zimbabwe Pensioners Welfare Trust for Economic Development (ZPWT4ED).Former Clerk of Parliame...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC aspirants chopped down to 35
NEARLY 100 individuals, who applied to sit on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), have been chopped from the nomination list after failing to meet expected attributes, The Sunday Mail has ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Mnangagwa's pick for new Zacc chair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has chosen High Court judge, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo (pictured), who is also Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo's wife, to be the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commissio...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Candidates nominated for ZACC - full-list
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR THE ZIMBABWE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION (ZACC) The Standing Rules and Orders Committee of the Parliament of Zimbabwe is mandated in terms of Secti...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 08:33hrs | 6 | by Parliement
Heavyweights vie for ZACC posts
High-profile figures are among the list of 133 people who have been nominated for interviews to become commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC). Following the resignatio...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament releases list of 133 applicants for 9 ZACC posts
Former Zimpapers board chairman Tommy Sithole and former Chronicle editor Geoffrey Nyarota are among a list of 133 people who have applied to become commissioner of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commis...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 6 | by ZimLive
Jonathan Noyo exposes Madhuku, Madhuku exposes Jonathan Moyo
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who turns 62 yesterday, may have had a birthday he would want to quickly forget after Professor Lovemore Madhuku exposed him for stretching...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-magistrate, accomplices remanded
FORMER Harare magistrate Memory Chigwaza and her two alleged accomplices, who are facing $155 000 fraud charges after they sold non-existent residential stands to unsuspecting home seekers, were last ...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-magistrate in court for fraud
Former Harare magistrate Memory Chigwaza and her two alleged accomplices appeared in court yesterday facing charges of defrauding homeseekers of $155 000 after selling them non-existent residential st...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Herald sports journalist Mundandi dies
THE sports journalism fraternity yesterday woke up to the shock news of the death of The Herald's veteran writer Saul Paul Murambiwa Mundandi.Mundandi (47) died yesterday at the Zvishavane Dis...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hlongwane hails BancABC
Sports and Recreation Minister Makhosini Hlongwane has hailed financial firm BancABC for complementing Government's health and wellness agenda through promoting sports. Reacting to news that B...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Sports Reporter
Drama as cops exchange blows in court
THERE was drama at the Harare Civil Court yesterday when two police officers, a man and a woman, fought over a maintenance claim verdict before being arrested and whisked to the police post by colleag...Published: 08 Sep 2015 at 00:58hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
Broken down cars cause havoc in parliament
OUTSPOKEN legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has urged the speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda to forcible remove broken down cars that are taking up parking space in parliament.Misiha...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 11:18hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Police probe Amos Midzi death
The results of Amos Midzi's autopsy have been delayed to today according to the family's spokesperson, amid revelations that police continue to investigate the much-talked about death of the former Ca...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 15:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Midzi death details latest with video
Former Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman and Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi, who was found dead in his car at Munandi Farm in Beatrice yesterday, could have committed suicide after a one-litre bottle of...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New Clerk of Parliament announced
Kennedy Mugove Chokuda has been appointed new Clerk of Parliament with immediate effect, Bulawayo24 can reveal.Chokuda has been acting since last November following the retirement of Austin Zv...Published: 20 May 2015 at 13:44hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
50 eye Clerk of Parliament's post
Fifty candidates are eyeing the post of Clerk of Parliament that fell vacant in November last year following the retirement of Mr Austin Zvoma. National Assembly Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa clashes with Mudenda over 'Ndebele speaking' clerk of Parliament
Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa has clashed with Speaker of the House of Assembly Jacob Mudenda over the appointment of a new clerk of Parliament.The position of clerk of Parliament fell vaca...Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 21:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dingani tipped for Parly clerk post
Helen Dingani, the former deputy clerk of Parliament, is likely to replace Austin Zvoma who retired last week. Dingani, 57, is also the deputy clerk of the South African-based Pan-African ...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh crises hit Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF politburo meets again in Harare tomorrow with President Robert Mugabe under mounting pressure to stop the ruling party from imploding altogether as its factional and succession wars turn ...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament clerk retires after serving parly for 2 decades
HARARE - OUTGOING Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma yesterday said he was leaving the august House a happy man after clocking nearly 26 years in the hot seat.Zvoma leaves Parliament barely a ye...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvoma forced to retire
PARLIAMENT's Standing Rules and Orders Committee yesterday resolved to retire Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma at the end of this month despite his resistance based on the new Constitution which he sa...Published: 18 Nov 2014 at 08:19hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Retirement due Zim Clerk of Parliament tries to extend his term of office
Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma is trying to manipulate provisions of the new Constitution to extend his term of office, it has emerged.The Sunday Mail reported that Mr Zvoma will soon rea...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe refuses to ditch Parly colonial bling
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF is refusing to ditch full scale British pageantry when Parliament opens on Tuesday, even though the new Constitution outlaws such pomp and pageantry. Aust...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament turns down Grace Mugabe PhD probe
Parliament has refused a request by students to probe how Grace Mugabe controversially attained a doctorate from the University of Zimbabwe. The PhD was granted to the First Lady amid dist...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gono to land senatorial seat, legal hurdle cleared
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono looks set to land the Manicaland senatorial seat left vacant following the death of Kumbirai Kangai in August last year after President Robert...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Come on Jonathan, this is certainly sinking too low
WHEN Jonathan Mashingaidze sensed blood and launched his counter-attack, with both lightning speed and ferocious blows in Parliament on Thursday, there were shades of Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the...Published: 09 Aug 2014 at 09:14hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Jonathan Moyo fails to turn up for questioning
HARARE - Jonathan Moyo, minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services yesterday, failed to appear before a parliamentary portfolio committee to answer questions about the arrest of the Sund...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 11:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Broke Legislators borrow to attend sittings
Legislators are borrowing money from friends and relatives to travel to Harare on Parliamentary business as they have gone for months without getting their allowances. The 350-member Parliamen...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kasukuwere off the hook
Former Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere was Thursday saved from being quizzed by a parliamentary committee on the controversy surrounding the Zimunya-Marange Community Share Ownership Trust ...Published: 16 May 2014 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Madhuku chides 'spineless' MPs
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader, Lovemore Madhuku has chided Members of Parliament describing them as cowards who suppress their own independent opinions due to whipping by their re...Published: 13 Apr 2014 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe 'adopts' prison inmates babies
DEPUTY minister of Justice Fortune Chasi told Parliament yesterday that the First Lady Grace Mugabe's Mazowe orphanage home had taken on board some of the children whose mothers were serving jail sent...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP in trouble over Parly remarks
MBIZO MP Settlement Chikwinya (MDC-T) could be charged with contempt of Parliament over his alleged offensive remarks in Parliament last week, Speaker of the House of Assembly Jacob Mudenda warned...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-MPs spoiling to sue govt
A group of former MPs is spoiling to sue government to compel it to pay allowances in arrears that accrued during parliament's preceding sessions .An ex-member of the eighth parliament's welfa...Published: 08 Mar 2014 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament boss in salary storm
Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma, was on Thursday caught up in the ongoing exposes about executives at public institutions believed to be earning "obscene salaries" after an opposition MDC-T MP ca...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Only with miracle money,' MDC-T told
Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma says the obscene benefits being demanded by MDC-T legislators are not feasible and will only be achievable with "miracle money".MDC-T's parliamentary caucus...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 06:35hrs | | by Felex Share
80 MPs left stranded in Harare hotels
ABOUT 80 Zanu-PF and MDC-T Members of Parliament from outside Harare yesterday claimed that they were left stranded at different hotels in the capital over the weekend after Parliament failed to suppl...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba causes storm
Joseph Chinotimba , the Buhera South MP, yesterday caused a storm during the post-budget seminar by the Parliament of Zimbabwe at a Harare hotel when he demanded that one of the presenters should ac...Published: 17 Jan 2014 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe summons Parliament for Budget
President Mugabe has summoned Parliament for the presentation of the 2014 National Budget on December 19, 2013.The Budget statement, traditionally presented in November, was delayed to allow t...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 02:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Legislators to sue parly
Legislators from the previous Parliament are said to be separately preparing claims against the legislature over unpaid allowances running into millions of greenbacks. The move came as the Cl...Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 03:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woza activists demonstrate at Parly
More than 100 Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) activists yesterday briefly demonstrated at Parliament Building in Harare to protest against society's negative perception of women and the systemic viole...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 04:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Income Tax Bill submitted to Mugabe
THE new Income Tax Bill, which seeks to broaden the tax base, repeal and replace the Income Tax Act and Capital Gains Tax Act, has been submitted to President Mugabe for his assent. According...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 01:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T's Morgen Komichi sworn in as Senator
MDC-T deputy national chairperson Mr Morgen Komichi, who is currently serving 350 hours of community service at Mabelreign Clinic in Harare for fraud and contravening the country's electoral law, was ...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 02:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Kereke ready to work with Zanu-PF
BIKITA West MP Munyaradzi Kereke yesterday said he was still ready to work with Zanu-PF.Speaking after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruled as null and void the bid by Zanu-PF to have him...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to kill Zesa hit a brick wall
CLERK of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma has written to the Registrar of the High Court and the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet demanding the return of Electricity Amendment Act 2013 which so...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sanctions motion leaves legislators close to blows
A MOTION on the West's illegal economic sanctions regime saw legislators almost trading blows yesterday, with altercations between Zanu-PF and MDC-T members lasting for about 30 minutes.The e...Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 03:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drunkard parliamentarians barred from buying booze during sitting
THE speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, has started his term in the National Assembly by banning the sale of alcoholic beverages during parliamentary sittings, with effect from Wednesday last week....Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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