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MDC-A MP ejected from Parly for calling Chamisa 'His Excellency'
MDC Alliance Marondera Central MP Catson Matewu was on Tuesday ejected from Parliament for referring to his party leader Nelson Chamisa as "His Excellency."Matewu was debating in Parliament ab...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 18:38hrs | 4336 | by Staff Reporter
Mliswa barred from Parly duties
Norton Member of Parliament Mr Temba Mliswa and three other legislators accused of soliciting a US$400 000 bribe from a local businessman, were yesterday barred from sitting on the Parliamentary Portf...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:27hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
'Coltart funding doctors to go on strike'
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has alleged that human rights lawyer Douglas Coltart is funding the doctors to continue being on strike. Charamba was responding to ZANU PF Youth Leag...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 13:05hrs | 9513 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF, MDC Parly squabbles escalate
MDC Senate chief whip Lillian Timveous says her party legislators will next week enter Parliament with their mouths gagged in protest over Zanu-PF MPs' disruptive behaviour during committee meetings....Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:23hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cripples Parly committee meetings
CHAOS continued yesterday in Parliament after the Portfolio Committee on Information and Media chaired by Binga North legislator Prince Dubeko Sibanda (MDC Alliance) was disrupted by Zanu PF legislato...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:43hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
ZUJ grumbles over state sponsored violence against journalists
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has registered its outrage at the increasing number of Press Freedom violations and threats to the safety and security of journalists in Zimbabwe.ZUJ sa...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 19:25hrs | 814 | by Stephen Jakes
New Parly building on schedule
Construction of the new Parliament Building is on schedule and expected to be completed by March next year. Yesterday, President Mnangagwa toured the construction site in Mt Hampden, just outs...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:21hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Parliament walkouts: MPs must serve the national interest
ZANU-PF legislators' decision to boycott the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) sitting where Sakunda Holdings was expected to give oral evidence regarding how the US$3 billion...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:12hrs | 987 | by Nyasha Chingono
Police assault 3 journalists at MDC office
The Media Institute of Southern Africa has reported that three journalists were assaulted by police at the MDC Alliance HQ in Harare, Zimbabwe where leader Nelson Chamisa was scheduled to give his&nbs...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 15:15hrs | 3249 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mudenda reverses decision to bar Chamisa's MPs from Parly debate
Speaker of the House of Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday reversed the ruling he made last month barring MDC Alliance legislators from posing questions to Cabinet ministers due to their refusa...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:33hrs | 1992 | by Staff reporter
Parly summons minister over doctors' strike
Parliament has demanded a ministerial statement from Health minister Obadiah Moyo explained the state of the country's health delivery system after government fired over 280 doctors recently. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
Biti fumes as Sakunda Holdings boss dodges parly hearing
Command Agriculture benefactor, Sakunda Holdings, yesterday snubbed grilling by the Tendai Biti-chaired Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over allegations that the company received over US...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Parly to buy MPs laptops by year end
PARLIAMENT has undertaken to buy laptops for all legislators before the end of the year as Government intensifies its Electronic Government (e-government) drive through the use of Information and Comm...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:05hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Parliament recommends ZDF to get capital projects tenders
PARLIAMENT has recommended that Government should consider awarding capital projects tenders such as for road construction to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF). The suggestion was made at the ...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:37hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda bans MDC MPs from asking questions in Parliament
The Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has issued a ruling banning MDC members of Parliament from participating in a Question and Answer session with Ministers in parliament because their pa...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 14:49hrs | 7611 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa demands Parly committee chair reshuffling
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) yesterday called for rotation of parliamentary portfolio committee chairpersons in a move targeted at removal of Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who l...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
Naming and shaming corrupt Bigwigs is not enough: They ought to rot in jail - Nomboka
Responding to a question posed by this reporter during a live interview on ‘what should have been done by seating parliamentarians which they were apparently not doing to put an immediate stop to ra...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:24hrs | 469 | by Agencies
Energy ministry secretary grilled over Zesa rebundling, tariffs
MINISTRY of Energy secretary Gloria Magombo was yesterday grilled by Parliament over issues of rebundling of Zesa with MPs questioning why an institution that was recently unbundled was now being rebu...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 15:04hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
6 Bills lapse as Parly dozes
At least six Bills that were before Parliament lapsed after the august House failed to debate and pass them during the First Session of the Ninth Parliament.The failure by legislators to pass ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:21hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya's deputy governor faces contempt of Parly charges
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Khuphukile Mlambo and other senior staffers at the central bank face contempt of Parliament charges after they failed to attend a Public Accounts Committee (Pa...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:34hrs | 240 | by Staff Reporter
Temba Mliswa goes after Mutumwa Mawere
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused South African based business tycoon Mutumwa Dziva Mawere of seeking to use his business empire to dictate who was going to be a President in Zimbab...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 05:57hrs | 1306 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parly grills BAZ over forex accounts memo
PARLIAMENT yesterday grilled Bankers' Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) president Webster Rusere over a circular which was recently leaked on social media by one of their members announcing that the Reser...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Parliament honours Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led Parliament in observing a minute of silence in honour of late former President and national hero Robert Mugabe. The minute of silence was observed before the ...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa to report Wadyajena to CIOs
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says he is going to report Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena to the dreaded members of the Central Intelligence Organisation for sa...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 08:36hrs | 5909 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Outgoing Parly session passed a measly 9/29 Bills
THE outgoing First Session of the Ninth Parliament failed to meet expectations after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a busy legislative agenda of 29 Bills to be brought before Parliament for cr...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 07:14hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Hectic schedule for new Parly session
During the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, which opens on Tuesday, Government intends to fast-track the enactment of legislation that underpins political and economic reforms, including introd...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:16hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa shows IMF the middle finger
Norton member of parliament Temba Mliswa says Zimbabwe does not need the International Monetary fund for the economy to be revived because it has never prescribed better solutions for the country....Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 11:29hrs | 2766 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti wants RBZ Boss arrested over Kuda Tagwirei
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says he will be taking Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Deputy Governor Khuphukile Mlambo to court so that he and his institution are prosecuted for abusing public funds throug...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 13:12hrs | 8480 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 new MPs sworn-in
Two new members of the National Assembly were yesterday sworn in following their victories in by-elections held last month. The two are Zanu-PF's Hlalani Mguni, who won the Mangwe seat that fe...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 06:33hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Low domestic tourism volumes worry Zimbabwe Parly
INCREASED marketing and educational campaigns are needed to boost domestic tourism in Zimbabwe, which remains lowest despite huge potential, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infr...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya summoned over Command Agric
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been summoned to appear before the Parliament's Accounts Committee (Pac) to answer allegations that US$3 billion vanished under the controvers...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:07hrs | 2672 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open 2nd Parly session
President Mnangagwa will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament on October 1 and layout the legislative agenda. The opening of the Second Session marks the end of the First...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 05:38hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Ministers to be charged for Parly truancy: Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has revealed that he has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa twice, advising him of Cabinet ministers bunking question and answer sessions in Parlia...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:41hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: New parliament building near completion
The new parliament building which is being constructed by the Shanghai Construction group at Mount Hampden, 18km north-west of Harare, is near completion. Images circulating on social media re...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 6010 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parliament to punish absentee ministers
Parliament will take disciplinary measures against Cabinet ministers and their deputies that missed last Wednesday's Question and Answer session in the National Assembly without seeking leave of absen...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 06:22hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa gets top post in parliament
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has earned himself a new position as Chairperson of a newly formed Sports Club of Parliamentarians. Announcing the Committee Mliswa said, "Yesterday (T...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3198 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parliament okays contentious MOPA Bill
THE Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa), which attracted heated debate in Parliament in the past weeks, was passed on Thursday in the National Assembly with only one amendment from the Senate....Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:42hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube summoned
PARLIAMENT says government finances are in a mess and has summoned Finance minister Mthuli Ncube - as a matter of urgency - to regularise a series of unauthorised expenditures which now include the ZW...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:25hrs | 11960 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths turn Parly office into torture base
A ZANU-PF youth group known as Al Shabaab has grabbed Mbizo parliamentary constituency offices in Kwekwe amid reports that they are now using it as a torture base for opposition MDC supporters and for...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Minister storms out of Parly over abductions
THE main opposition MDC yesterday demanded that Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema should issue a ministerial statement in Parliament explaining all the cases of abductions and torture of persons that...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Parliament shorlists 5 for ZHRC job
Parliament has shortlisted five candidates and set the dates for interviews to find a prospective candidate for appointment to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC). After the interviews...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Government pays funeral company USD$400 million to supply fertiliser?
The Government of Zimbabwe is alleged to have paid USD$400 million to a former funeral services company called FSG to provide fertiliser under the Command Agriculture program. The officials fr...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 15:18hrs | 11173 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's 'resignation' letter disappears - 'asante sana'
A SENIOR official in the Parliament of Zimbabwe who was entrusted with the custody of former president Robert Mugabe's forced resignation letter has been dismissed from work for gross negligence after...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:57hrs | 1800 | by Staff reporter
Zec leans on Parly for electoral reforms
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has petitioned Parliament to expedite the amendment of laws to delink the national census from the delimitation exercise in order to guarantee smooth general el...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:31hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Peace, Order Bill still unconstitutional
At a sitting that started on August 8 and ended at 4.10am on August 9, the National Assembly passed the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill with amendments, most of which were intended to meet objecti...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 109 | by Veritas
Childish pranks dominate Parly in Speaker's absence
LEGISLATORS have this week been wasting a lot of debate time on childhood pranks and useless interjections during Parliament sittings.This has been the norm whenever Speaker of the National As...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Whipping system affects Parly debates: Mataranyika
CHAIRPERSON of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice Misheck Mataranyika has said the whipping system in Parliament must be repealed from Parliamentary Standing Rules and Orders because it ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
'Monkeys and Baboons': What did Shiri actually say
FACTS AND FICTIONRemarks made by Agriculture minister Perence Shiri, during a Parliamentary debate on July 31, have been widely shared and have raised controversy. Under the headline...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Mthuli Ncube's Mid-term fiscal review
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is now presenting his mid-term fiscal review statement and supplementary budget.Zimbabwe is facing a downturn in economic fortunes with inflation zooming to 175,6...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 14:31hrs | 6293 | by Staff reporter
Transmedia boss grilled over DStv subscriptions
TRANSMEDIA chief executive officer Florence Sigudu yesterday appeared before the Prince Dubeko Sibanda-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Information and Media where she was grilled over the iss...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
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