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Outrage as Zanu PF rejects open tender for ballot paper

May 11, 2018 24,609

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF has sparked outrage after rejecting opposition demands for an open tender for the procurement of ballot papers to be used in this years’ harmonised election.
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Featured

#Zimbabwe opposition MDC-T to decide on #Mugabe impeachment Tuesday -chief whip

Nov 20, 2017 3,430

Lawmakers from Zimbabwe’s main opposition party MDC will hold a meeting on Tuesday to decide whether to join their ruling party rivals to impeach 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, the minority chief whip said.
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Politics

Zimbabwe parliament restores Mugabe’s authority to name chief justice

Jul 26, 2017 10,023

Zimbabwe's parliament on Tuesday changed the constitution to give back to President Robert Mugabe sole power to appoint the country's top three judges, a move the main opposition said could undermine the independence of the judiciary.
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Ministers to be charged for bunking Parliament

Dec 5, 2016 252

The Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has sternly warned ministers that systematically fail to appear at parliamentary sessions or committee meetings, with opposition legislators demanding that they be charged with contempt of…
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Politics

Chombo’s ‘toilet’ stunt angers MPs

Nov 18, 2016 319

By Mugove Tafirenyika Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo left Members of Parliament fuming on Wednesday when he allegedly used the excuse of answering to nature’s call to avoid facing some tough questions from the irate legislators.…
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Speaker of Parliament, Zanu PF MPs accused of shielding ‘brutal police’

Aug 27, 2016 319

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) caucus led by opposition chief whip and Mutare Central legislator, Innocent Gonese, has rapped the speaker of parliament and Zanu PF members of parliament (MP) for sabotaging a motion on…
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Opinion

MDC Chief Whip Innocent Gonese on Chamisa police brutality motion

Aug 27, 2016 712

By Innocent Gonese The MDC-T Caucus is appalled, dismayed and disgusted by the anti-people behaviour displayed by ZANU PF members of Parliament in walking out of Parliament on diverse occasions to frustrate and thwart important motions…
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News

Zanu PF and MDC MPs in looting spree

May 28, 2015 220

HARARE - The shifting political winds in the country’s main political parties has created so much uncertainty among lawmakers that they are now demanding residential stands from a cash-strapped government, among other things, ahead of the…
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News

Khupe remains Parliament’s opposition leader

May 10, 2014 331

The refusal by Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda to be dragged into the MDC-T factional fighting leaves Thokozani Khupe as the leader of the opposition in Parliament, the MDC-T chief whip said on Friday.
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MDC-T accuses speaker of suppressing debate on ‘rigged elections’

Oct 17, 2013 193

HARARE - Parliamentary business came to a halt on Wednesday when opposition legislators accused the speaker of ‘suppressing their voice,’ leading to the House being adjourned for the day.
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