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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:19
HARARE - Zimbabwe's new constitution which allocates 60 “affirmative action” seats to women for the first two terms is a systematic opportunity of preparing women for leadership. The 60 female MPs would add to the 210 parliamentary seats and the 88...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Sunday, 05 May 2013 14:03
HARARE - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has insisted that the country will hold harmonised elections by June 29 when the life of the Seventh Parliament comes to an end. Addressing members of the Zanu PF central committee at his party headquarters in...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Wednesday, 17 April 2013 12:59
HARARE - Speaker Lovemore Moyo is finding it hard to expel from Parliament five legislators who crossed the floor from the Welshman Ncube-led MDC to join the mainstream MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The smaller MDC has requested that...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 12:12
HARARE - The Sadc Parliamentary Forum (SPF) executive has insisted that Zimbabwe should hold free and fair elections. The call from SPF comes as the country prepares for a watershed election to be held during the course of the year. SPF,...Read More
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 11:48
HARARE - Some Zanu PF Members of Parliament have come out guns blazing demanding answers on how the indigenisation programme was implemented, as the Nieebgate Scandal exposed by the Daily News rages on. Legislators from the Mines and Energy portfolio committee,...Read More
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:21
HARARE - Observers from the Sadc Parliamentary Forum (SPF) left Zimbabwe yesterday morning after endorsing the referendum elections held last Saturday. They said they will be back for the harmonised elections expected later in the year. SPF, whose offices are in...Read More
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:25
HARARE - Regional MPs have given Zimbabwe’s referendum the green light, saying the process was “on the whole, a credible reflection of the will of the people of Zimbabwe”. In an interim statement to the media in Harare yesterday, the Sadc...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Friday, 15 March 2013 10:43
HARARE - As the Nieebgate saga drags on, Parliament says it is going to haul Savior Kasukuwere, the minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment who is at the centre of the economic empowerment storm, to answer charges of underhand dealings....Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Thursday, 14 March 2013 10:06
HARARE - A SADC Parliamentary Forum (SPF) committee which arrived in the country on Sunday says it will dispatch more observers for Zimbabwe’s watershed general election set for later this year. SPF secretary-general Esau Chiviya told the Daily News that they...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Saturday, 02 March 2013 13:57
HARARE - The political violence that has engulfed communities in Mashonaland and Manicaland provinces came into the spotlight during parliamentary debates this week. Zanu PF and MDC MPs both took turns to denounce the political violence and urged the police to...Read More
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:22
HARARE - Parliament has partnered human rights lawyers to capacitate legislators in the field of human rights work. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and Parliament comes as government ups its crackdown on pro-democracy groups....Read More
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Features » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Sunday, 24 February 2013 11:36
HARARE - From this week the Daily News will introduce a new column, Parliament Debates which will bring highlights on deliberations in the august House. Our Parliamentary Editor, Chengetai Zvauya will bring you the inside story and update readers on...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Thursday, 07 February 2013 10:51
HARARE - Parliament yesterday adopted and approved Zimbabwe’s constitutional draft, which paves the way for the holding of a much-anticipated referendum, possibly in March. Zimbabweans are now expected to vote in a referendum, which will either accept or reject the new...Read More
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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 12:42
HARARE - A much-awaited draft on Zimbabwe’s constitution — to pave way for key elections in the country — was yesterday tabled in Parliament for debate today and Thursday, as it is expected to take centre stage in both houses this...Read More
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Sunday, 13 January 2013 12:34
MASVINGO - Youths in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC Masvingo Province have demanded 10 of the total 26 parliamentary seats. The youth assembly resolved at a provincial youth executive meeting held at the party offices yesterday that youths should be actively...Read More
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