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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: 18 hrs ago | 93 | 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 06:57hrs | 1253 | 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 07:44hrs | 392 | 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 07:36hrs | | 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 09:36hrs | | 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 08:14hrs | 6 | 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 13:16hrs | | 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 12:29hrs | 2751 | 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 14:12hrs | 8402 | 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 07:33hrs | 394 | 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 08:32hrs | | 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 07:07hrs | | 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 06:38hrs | | 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 07:41hrs | | 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 08:36hrs | | 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 07:22hrs | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Austerity measures causing more suffering to Zimbabweans
Emmerson Mnangagwa's led government must come clean on the austerity measures implemented by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube.Zimbabwe announced austerity measures to spur the economic ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zinara faces Parliament grilling over operations
PARLIAMENT will today question the Zimbabwe Nationals Road Administration (Zinara) over the state of affairs at the parastatal which has, of late, hogged news headlines because of corrupt practices....Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa demands improved conditions of service for MPs
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has threatened to drag government to court to force it to improve the welfare of MPs by providing them with vehicles and increase their salaries.Raising a ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa threatens to sue Govt, Parly over his poor $1,800 salary?
Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa has threatened to sue the Government and Parliament over poor remuneration for parliamentarians. Mr Mliswa said this in the National Assembly yesterday while ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rowdy Zanu-PF youths disrupt Parly hearing, threaten violence
A PARLIAMENTARY portfolio committee meeting was aborted in Kadoma at the weekend after rowdy Zanu-PF youths heckled legislators and participants, threatening to unleash violence.The Youth, Spo...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to licence new mobile virtual network operators
Zimbabwe will soon licence new entrants into the mobile telecommunications sector under the mobile virtual network operators' framework, with authorities agreeing on the need to put in place legal fra...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP chickens out of Parly feedback debate
Beitbridge West legislator Ruth Maboyi Mavhungu (Zanu-PF) on Tuesday stunned the National Assembly when she pledged to second a motion on a report of a Zimbabwean delegation to the Inter Parliamentary...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly in heated debate over pregnant school girls
THE Education Amendment Bill, which is currently in its second reading stage in the National Assembly, has attracted heated debate on whether pregnant girls should be allowed to continue with class....Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Parly caucus disheartened by Tsvangirai - Java's death
The MDC Parliamentary Caucus is disheartened by the untimely death of Hon. Vimbai Tsvangirai - Java, a young and promising MP who had a good political future in the party that her father founded twent...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:02hrs | | by Prospe Mutseyami and Lillian Timveos
Mthuli Ncube develops cold feet?
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is reportedly developing cold feet in contesting the Lupane East by-election under a ZANU PF ticket. ZANU PF was reported to be meeting this weekend to decide whe...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 14:22hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
LIVE: Maintenance of Public Order Bill hearing
Parliament is currently conducting a public hearing on the MOPO Bill. The Bill is set to replace the repressive Public Order and Security Act. Analysts have condemned the bill and called a re-...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Temba Mliswa takes Billy Rautenbach head on
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government must investigate the business cartels who have captured the state and are benefitting from state resources. ...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 11:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fuel firms to lose licences
Mystery surrounds the distribution of fuel in Zimbabwe after authorities have established that while enough money has been availed for players to procure the product, it has not been channelled to the...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa condemn Zanu-PF MPs
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has condemned Zanu-PF MPs who failed to observe a moment of silence for war hero Dumiso Dabengwa in Parliament on Tuesday.Chamisa referred to the incident on Twitter ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly to undertake public consultations on review of Water Act
After Community Water Alliance (CWA) hearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement yesterday 21/05/2019, the Committee informed CWA ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 15:35hrs | | by Community Water Alliance
Tensions boil over at a Zanu-PF Parly caucus forum
TENSIONS boiled over at a Zanu-PF parliamentary caucus meeting on Wednesday morning as MPs confronted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube over the parlous state of the economy and their welfare issues....Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZINARA managers paid US$25 000 for hairdressing
The Zimbabwe National Road Authority paid its managers a total of US$25 000 for hairdressing according to a 2017 audit. The revelations came after the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee...Published: 06 May 2019 at 15:53hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa attacks journalists
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has come out guns blazing against journalists who are paid brown envelope by Ministers to write fake stories involving non-existent 9nvestments. ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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