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Zimbabwe Parliament demands removal of punitive taxes

Parliament has sharply escalated pressure on Treasury to urgently scrap punitive taxes, including the highly contentious 2% Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT), by August 31, 2025, in a bid to hal...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa to open 57th SADC Parliamentary Forum in Victoria Falls

President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow officially open the 57th Plenary Assembly of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF), a high-level gathering of regional leg...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 June 2025

POLITICS

Guvamatanga dodges Parliament again over US$400 million scandal

Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga failed once again to appear before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday, defying expectations that he would explain the gross ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 May 2025

POLITICS

Guvamatanga faces summons threat after snubbing Parliament

Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga is facing the threat of a parliamentary summons after he failed to appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the second t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 May 2025

POLITICS

Parliament asked to investigate Chivayo

A Kwekwe resident, Emmanuel Nkosilathi Moyo, has written to the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, urging the legislature to launch an investigation into allegations of money laundering and corrupt...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 May 2025

POLITICS

Did Mnangagwa shut down Parliament to avoid impeachment?

Following Parliament's adjournment on April 8 to May 6, some social media users and even one headline claimed that President Mnangagwa had "shut down Parliament". It has been suggested this was to avo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025

POLITICS

Mawere to testify before a parliamentary panel on SMM

Zimbabwe lawmakers have formally okayed a request by South Africa-based businessman Mutumwa Mawere to explain at a portfolio committee hearing how the government seized his Shabanie Mashaba Mines (SMM...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 December 2018

POLITICS

'Withhold Parliament benefits for rowdy MDC legislators'

THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East youth league want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to withhold government benefits given to MDC Alliance legislators until the opposition recognises his legitimacy.The youths ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 December 2018

POLITICS

Chinotimba identifies prostitute in Parliament

ZANU-PF's Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba caused furore in the National Assembly yesterday after calling MDC Alliance leader of the House Thabitha Khumalo a prostitute, leading to her walking out wi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Parliament orders accountant-general to publish 2016 financials

ACCOUNTANT-General Daniel Muchemwa has been ordered by Parliament to produce and publish government's consolidated financial statements for 2016 and 2017 before year-end.Muchemwa, who on Monday appear...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2018

POLITICS

Funding for Zimbabwe's new Parliament questioned

Zimbabwe is set to receive $165 million of Chinese aid for the full construction of a new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, yet Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated $3,8 million in the 2019 Na...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2018

POLITICS

'Mnangagwa has no control of Parliament'

President Mnangagwa respects the principle of separation of power and has no control of proceedings in Parliament, Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba said. This follows attempts by the priva...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 November 2018

POLITICS

Parliament urged to oversee govt spending

PARLIAMENT has to keep strict checks and balances on government expenditure to control the budget deficit, economists have advised.Last week, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented his maiden 2019 Na...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 November 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Devolution expected to take centre stage in Parliament

THE public outreach that led to the crafting of the new Constitution in 2013 saw the birth of devolution of power. A majority of provinces advocated for the system of governance which was one of the i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 September 2018

POLITICS

Mudenda retains Speaker of Parliament post

Zanu-PF Politburo member Advocate Jacob Mudenda was yesterday voted as the Speaker of the National Assembly to retain the post he held in the previous Parliament, after beating MDC Alliance's Ms Pauri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 September 2018

POLITICS

MRP opens Mthwakazi parliamentary indaba

SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) will today open its parliamentary indaba aimed at marketing the cause and struggle of the Mthwakazi people to the international community and to find releva...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 July 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga tells Chamisa that 'Laws made in Parliament'

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has hit out at MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for tarnishing the reputation of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) by making unsubstantiated claims of im...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T intensify parliamentary bid

Some aspiring National Assembly members in Bulawayo from the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T faction have intensified their parliamentary bid with some door-to-door campaigns while expressing confidence ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Biometric register for Ninth Parliament

Legislators in the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe - which will be formed after the July 30, 2018 elections -- will have their attendance recorded by a biometric register.Presiding officers will also rec...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 July 2018

POLITICS

Parliament exposes Obert Mpofu

Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has suffered the indignity of having the land which he was leasing from the government being withdrawn because of non-production and the neglect of farm equipment.In ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 June 2018

POLITICS

Chihuri, Matshiya face Parliament contempt charges

FORMER Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri and Home Affairs secretary Melusi Matshiya might face contempt of Parliament charges if it is proven that they presented fa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 June 2018

POLITICS

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 June 2018

POLITICS

Mliswa causes Parliament storm

NORTON legislator, Temba Mliswa (independent) caused a storm in Parliament yesterday, when he proposed that war veterans should dump Zanu-PF for neglecting them, adding that the proportional represent...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 May 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe fails to appear before parliament

A Zimbabwe parliamentary committee gathered on Wednesday to hear evidence from former president Robert Mugabe, but there was no immediate sign that he would attend.Lawmakers want to question Mugabe ov...

By AFP | Published: 23 May 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe to appear in parliament today

Former President Robert Mugabe is expected to give oral evidence today before a parliamentary portfolio committee on diamond leakages at Chiadzwa, which he indicated in 2016 as pegged at $15 billion.T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 May 2018
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