Category Archives: Parliamentary
Bulawayo South constituency: End of year letter – 2005
Dear Friends, I cannot believe how this year has flown. In some ways it seems just yesterday that I was honoured and grateful to be re-elected by you as an MDC MP with a 76% majority. However that was in March and eight months have gone by since then. You will recall that in the […]
Senate election casts shadow on MDC
Zimbabwe Independent by: Ray Matikinye THE low-level conflict that emerged from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)’s national executive council meeting last Wednesday over whether or not to participate in the forthcoming election for a revived senate has cast a long shadow over the party’s ability to forge a united front to fight Zanu PF. […]
No Exit Visas but Critics Beware – Zimbabwe Justice Minister
Voice of America – news Justice Minister Patrick Chinimasa denied Thursday in an interview with VOA that the government intends to introduce exit visas for citizens wishing to travel abroad. Mr. Chinimasa said a constitutional amendment recently passed by parliament and signed into law by President Robert Mugabe allows the government to seize passports from […]
President Mugabe, Headed for UN, Signs Disputed Amendments into Law
Voice of America – news News that Zimbabwe had been granted a reprieve by the International Monetary Fund to settle its debt arrears was overshadowed Monday by word that President Robert Mugabe had meanwhile signed into law a controversial bill amending the constitution to nationalize all farmland and empower the government to restrict foreign travel. […]
Zimbabwe Criticized for Planning Restrictions on Travel
Peta Thornycroft, Harare Zmbabwe civil rights advocates blasted the government’s proposed constitutional amendments that would, among other things, curtail the right of people to travel within the country and abroad. The government says the limit on travel is in public interest. President Robert Mugabe’s government says the constitutional amendment to restrict peoples’ movements is a […]
Zimbabwe Criticized for Planning Restrictions on Travel
By Peta Thornycroft Harare – Zmbabwe civil rights advocates blasted the government’s proposed constitutional amendments that would, among other things, curtail the right of people to travel within the country and abroad. The government says the limit on travel is in public interest. President Robert Mugabe’s government says the constitutional amendment to restrict peoples’ movements […]
Mooted Parly changes dismissed
Financial Gazette A BICAMERAL Parliament with 260-members, among other far-reaching changes to Zimbabwe’s august House, has been mooted, but analysts say the two-chamber legislature will be “toothless” unless it assumes “real” power. A bicameral parliamentary system provides for two chambers and observers say this prevents enactment of ill-considered laws by providing checks and balances. Of […]
Zanu PF Woos Female MDC Legislators
Financial Gazette ZANU PF, which is pressing for the introduction of a 260-member bicameral parliament, is lobbying female legislators in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to support the proposed constitutional amendments, expected to be tabled in parliament in the next few weeks. ZANU PF officials were this week tight-lipped on the details of the […]
Far-reaching changes to parliament planned
Financial Gazette THE ruling ZANU PF, which is four seats shy of the two-thirds majority needed to effect constitutional reforms, is considering plans to split Parliament into two legislative chambers and increase the number of elected legislators to 150. Highly places sources told The Financial Gazette this week that ZANU PF stalwarts executing the task […]
ZIMBABWE – Inter-Parliamentary Union
Resolution adopted unanimously by the Governing Council at its 174rd session (Mexico, 23 April 2004) CASE N° ZBW/12 – JUSTIN MUTENDADZAMERA CASE N° ZBW/13 – FLETCHER DULINI-NCUBE CASE N° ZBW/14 – DAVID MPALA CASE N° ZBW/15 – ABEDNICO BHEBHE CASE N° ZBW/16 – PETER NYONI CASE N° ZBW/17 – DAVID COLTART CASE N° ZBW/18 – […]