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Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
FORMER Premier Soccer League boss Tapiwa Matangaidze has been appointed chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Education, Sport, Arts and Culture. He takes over from Temba Mliswa who lost his Parliamentary seat following his expulsion from the ruling party, Zanu-PF recently.
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda announced the elevation of the Shurugwi South representative on Wednesday in Parliament.
“I’ve to inform the House that the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders has nominated the following, Matangaidze is now the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Education, Sport, Arts and Culture,” said Mudenda as he also named other portfolio members.
Matangaidze’s elevation to the chairmanship of the portfolio committee will be received with much hope by the football lovers as the former PSL boss has been frank with the Zifa board led by Cuthbert Dube. His predecessor Mliswa was accused of being lenient to the Dube board with parliamentary summons of the Zifa board being reduced into “mere” talk shows.
Matangaidze recently called for Zifa to be declared insolvent while also suggesting that the Ministry of Sport, Arts and Culture had taken a hands-off approach to football matters.
According to the Parliament of Zimbabwe’s committee system, committees of Parliament undertake such specialised functions which the House as a whole sitting in session may not be able to undertake and execute. Executive oversight, principally the review and monitoring of operations and activities of government programmes and policies, takes a variety of forms and utilises various techniques, of which committee inquiries is the most prominent. Oversight inquiries range from specialised investigations by select committees to annual appropriations hearings and is supported by a variety of authorities in the form of the Constitution and related laws, court rulings, chamber and committee rules.
Parliament performs Executive Oversight by scrutinising government policies, programmes, and expenditure plans. This is done, among other things, by making inputs into, approving and monitoring the national budget. Parliament, through its system of Portfolio and the Thematic Committees, monitors all government policies and programmes to ensure efficient use and allocation of national resources. In addition, individual members can raise questions or move motions that relate to government policies and programmes.
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