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Mwonzora takes over from Khupe as leader of opposition
MDC-T's newly elected president, Mr Douglas Mwonzora, is set to assume the role of Leader of Opposition in Parliament and is expected to make changes to the structures controlled by the opposition in ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:43hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
By-elections suspension lawful, says Ziyambi
The indefinite suspension of by-elections, which were scheduled for December 5, was Constitutional because it was taken in terms of the law and according to applicable health environment prevailing in...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 14:01hrs | 1562 | by Staff Reporter
Political parties go all out campaigning for by-elections
Zimbabwe's political parties - Zanu-PF, MDC-Alliance and MDC-T - are going all out campaigning ahead of anticipated by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats.The Zimbabwe E...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1264 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance defy Chiwenga's election ban
THE ruling Zanu-PF and opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said they were going ahead with preparations for by-elections despite the recent poll ban imposed by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga....Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 4798 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga poll ban takes new twist
Parliament is backtracking on its stance that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's suspension of by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats was constitutional, saying the pronounce...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:22hrs | 4654 | by Staff reporter
VP Chiwenga poll ban takes new twist
Parliament is backtracking on its stance that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's suspension of by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats was constitutional, saying the pronounce...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 11:37hrs | 12244 | by Staff Reporter
WHO says COVID-19 can't stop elections
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has poured cold water on government's recent decision to suspend byelections citing COVID-19 fears, saying elections could safely be held during pandemics as long a...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1446 | by Staff reporter
ZEC suspension of elections baseless, Mudenda rules
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had no legal basis to call off by-elections based on a statutory instrument that has not undergone parliamentary scrutiny, the Speaker of Parliament declared on...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC took money from 'murderers'?
THE motor-mouthed MDC secretary for elections, Jacob Mafume, has defended the party's decision to embrace people implicated in the murder of the party's activists in previous elections.Respond...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 3404 | by Staff reporter
Mopa faces ConCourt challenge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance legislators have threatened to launch a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge against provisions in the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa) which the party and other...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 502 | 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 | 115 | 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 | 885 | 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 | 325 | by Staff reporter
PLC rules MOPA unconstitutional
THE Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) yesterday passed an adverse report on the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (MOPA), which means that the Bill currently has provisions that are ultra vires (v...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's currency move triggers chaos
GOVERNMENT's Monday move to dump its basket of foreign currencies, opting to use its own currency in local transactions, triggered chaos on the market yesterday, with some retailers closing shop for t...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 16:35hrs | 4515 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Education Amendment Bill
Parents, teachers and residents of Bulawayo have urged parliamentarians to make a move and repeal an Education Amendment Bill which specifically does not permit children to be beaten saying this will ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 16:11hrs | 2020 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs flee govt terror
Dozens of MDC officials and civic society leaders have gone into hiding as there is no let up by government against pro-democracy and political activists it accuses of being part of last week's crippl...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:49hrs | 1530 | 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 | 503 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF blocks MDC bid to scrap 2% tax
A BID by the main opposition MDC Alliance legislators to have the 2% transaction tax cut to 0,5% hit a snag in the National Assembly when Zanu PF legislators used their majority to vote for its implem...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:32hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor-General interviews set for next month
THE Judicial Service Commission will next month conduct interviews for the position of Prosecutor-General (PG), which fell vacant after Ray Goba resigned in August. Goba stepped down after a tribunal ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:47hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
EU ratchets poll reforms pressure?
THE European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) is ratcheting up pressure on Zimbabwe to institute reforms to its electoral system after its final report called into question the independence of...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU Observer Mission in climbdown over Zimbabwe elections?
The European Union Election Observer Mission to Zimbabwe's July 30, 2018, harmonised elections yesterday made a huge climb-down by admitting that Government had already implemented some of the recomme...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1915 | by Staff reporter
Biti to chair Parly's Public Accounts Committee
HARARE East MP Tendai Biti will chair Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, while his Norton counterpart Temba Mliswa will head the committee on mines, Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudend...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
Money Laundering Bill to stem externalisation
Two important draft pieces of legislation were gazetted last week, paving the way for their introduction in Parliament.They are the Companies and Other Business Entities Bill, and the Money La...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:50hrs | 2022 | by John Makamure
Dabengwa, not Jonathan Moyo, is the brains behind POSA
ZAPU leader Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has revealed that he is the brains behind the original Public Order and Security Act (POSA) Bill but former President Mr Robert Mugabe refused to sign it because it was ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Alignment of Zimbabwe laws can't be delayed any longer
MEMBERS of the Ninth Parliament this week went through an induction and orientation exercise in order to familiarise them with parliamentary processes and procedures and flag out some of the issues in...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | 198 | by John Makamure
Zimbabwe makes headway in Ease of Doing Business
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi said the Government continues to explore various measures to improve the Ease of Doing Business as it forges ahead to promote economic growth and development in the country...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:26hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Perrence Shiri, parliamentarians head for showdown
LANDS, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri (Retired) and parliamentarians are headed for a showdown after legislators rejected regulations that sought to impos...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:07hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
MP in campaign against hate speech
MDC proportional representative MP Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga says she is lobbying Parliament to amend the Electoral Act so that it penalises political parties and candidates that promote hate sp...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and MDC-T hands off Jessie Majome!
There is this undercurrent of dislike and hatred of women in MDC-T Party. A powerful, intelligent, forceful woman will never find peace in this party. We had thought those were the traits of late Tsva...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 22:38hrs | 6139 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa yet to sign Land Commission Bill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to formally approve legislation giving the Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) power to be responsible for the allocation of rights in State land for agricultural pu...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: How to kill a peace commission at birth
Coordinator of the National Transitional Justice Working Group, Dzikamai Bere told 263Chat that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) Act has four weaknesses which threaten the effec...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 10:54hrs | 2050 | by Dzikamai Bere
Mnangagwa mulls Land Commission Bill revision
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he has not assented to the Land Commission Bill as Government is mulling revising the legislation to consider the role of chiefs in land matters.Addressin...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:28hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Parly rejects law, to clip minister's power
A PARLIAMENTARY committee has shot down proposed amendments to the Shop Licensing Act arguing new provisions giving the minister powers to approve budgets of local authorities violate constitutional p...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's Bill sails through Parly
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill (NPRC) sailed through the National Assembly on Wednesday. This is probably one of the Bills that has taken long to be crafted – more than two ye...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:48hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's Gukurahundi Bill goes back to Parly legal committee
Parliament has referred Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's National Peace and Reconciliation Bill to its legal committee after substantial amendments were made to it at the behest of opposition MPs....Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:14hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Makarau surrenders professional values & ethics by letting her judicial robe fall to her knees
Justice Rita Makarau, former ZANU PF appointee none constituency MP for parliamentary legal committee, professional lawyer, constitutional and supreme court judge, current secretary of the judiciary s...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | 641 | by Themba Mthethwa
Govt to revise Gukurahundi bill
Government will further amend the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill to ensure that the independent commission does not handle cases under judicial consideration, Vice President Pheleke...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:04hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
We are custodians of land, says Chiefs
Traditional chiefs have insisted that they are the custodians of land that is not communal despite an adverse report by the Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) on the Land Commission Bill....Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:38hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Makarau appointment questioned
THE tussle between Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and opposition parties pushing for electoral reforms could take a new twist as it is emerging that the appointment of the commission's ch...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:56hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs cannot be part of the Land Commission
Traditional leaders cannot be part of the Land Commission because their role is restricted to communal lands as defined in the Constitution, the Parliamentary Legal Committee has said.The ...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko tables Peace Bill
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who is also responsible for national healing, yesterday tabled the new National Peace and Reconciliation Bill in the National Assembly after it was withdrawn fro...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 09:55hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill to ‘bounce' back
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) Bill is set to bounce back for crafting after it was adjudged to be unconstitutional and removed from Parliament's Order Paper last year followi...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malaba, Makarau steal limelight
DEPUTY Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau yesterday stole the limelight in public interviews for the post of Chief Justice, which falls vacan...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:59hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Calls to outlaw polygamy
LEGISLATORS yesterday called for outlawing of polygamy as a way to end early child marriages.This was raised during debate on a motion moved by MDC-T chief whip in the National Assembly, I...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 05:23hrs | 1019 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa backtracks on bond notes Bill
THE Government has reversed its decision to fast track the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill that seeks to give legal effect to the introduction of bond notes in order to allow for wider con...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 15:47hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa to fast track Amendment Bill on bond notes
PATRICK Chinamsa, Zimbabwe's Finance and Economic Development Minister, is this afternoon expected to push through Parliament the fast-track passage of the Reserve Bank Amendment Bill which aims t...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 11:14hrs | 2477 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's bond notes law: A legal analysis
On October 31 2016, President Robert Mugabe gazetted Statutory Instrument 133 of 2016, which provides a legal framework for the introduction of bond notes as acceptable legal tender in Zimbabwe. S...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:56hrs | 575 | by Obert Gutu i
Will Mugabe come to the rescue?
TWO things that are sure about death are its certainty and finality. Reference is being made to death in the physical sense, not the spiritual side of things.Because of this, many human beings...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:31hrs | 1662 | by Cyril Zenda
National hero snub for former Speaker
The late former Speaker of Parliament Cyril Ndebele, who is set to be buried today at his Denver Farm in Nyamandlovu, deserved national hero status, opposition parties have said. Ndebele succu...Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 09:18hrs | 2367 | by Staff reporter
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