Zimbabwe's Ambassador At Large, Uebert Angel, has added another title to his list of responsibilities. News coming to us is that he has been appointed as the African Union's Pan African Parliament Ambassador for Interfaith Dialogue and Humanitarian Affairs.
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa threatened to physically attack some Members of Parliament who were interjecting him while he was condemning the racial statements made by seemingly foggy Zanu-PF Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba against opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Alan Markham.
The latest report by Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services on the security of minerals, illicit trading and mineral leakages has confirmed that delay in payments for gold by Fidelity Gold Refiners (FGR), the sole buyer of the mineral, is contributing to the current surge in looting and smuggling of the precious mineral.
Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa called Zanu-PF MPs "useless" for passing the draconian Patriotic Bill which seeks to criminalise "wilfully damaging the sovereignty and national interest of Zimbabwe."
Zanu-PF has effectively used its two thirds majority in Parliament to push the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Amendment Bill (Criminal Code) which contains a clause that criminalises "wilfully damaging the sovereignty and national interest of Zimbabwe."
