adminUPDATED: Parly grills Made over GMB post
Parliament yesterday grilled former Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made on why he appointed Mr Rockie Mutenha as the Grain Marketing Board general manager when he had scored lesser marks compared to two other aspirants.
Parly to summon Mugabe over Chiadzwa
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has resolved to summon former president Robert Mugabe to appear for a hearing, as it seeks to conclude its probe into the alleged disappearance of $15 billion worth of diamonds from Marange diamond fields.
Chihuri thrown under the bus
Former Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo, secretary in the ministry Mr Melusi Matshiya and the Zimbabwe Republic Police command on Monday told Parliament that they were not aware that the police mined diamonds at Chiadzwa.
UPDATED: 21 000 women screened for cancer
OVER 21 000 women have undergone cervical cancer screening since February, courtesy of a countrywide awareness campaign by First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa.
Parly to audit CDF
Parliament will soon begin auditing Constituency Development Funds that were distributed to legislators to fund development projects.
ZEC to monitor media poll coverage
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is set to monitor the coverage of political parties by media outlets in the country towards elections later this year, a senior official has said.
Mudzuri blames party members for Chamisa’s rise
MDC-T deputy president Engineer Elias Mudzuri has cast aspersions on the presidency of Mr Nelson Chamisa, saying party members “followed the wind” in choosing the late founding party president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s successor.
24 ex-convicts back in prison
A TOTAL of 24 inmates, including five women, who were released on Presidential Amnesty are back in prison hardly two weeks after gaining freedom.
Editorial Comment: Leadership unwieldly for gaffe-prone Chamisa
As MDC-T president Mr Nelson Chamisa tries to extricate himself from a politically taxing series of faux paus or gaffes occasioned by his weekend political stunts in Bulawayo, it becomes opportune to note what the world’s best-selling and widely distributed book, the Bible, counsels.
EPOUPA’S BIG GAMBLE
CAMEROONIAN forward Christian Epoupa risks being frozen out of action for the rest of the year after Dynamos yesterday indicated they will not budge to his demands to push for a release from his contract amid indications his head has been turned by Ngezi Platinum.