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AS THE world continues to grapple with the deadly coronavirus, the government has revealed that it does not have enough kits to test people requiring attention, further raising fears that the country is ill-prepared to deal with the…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday announced that schools and tertiary institutions will be closed indefinitely next week amid pressure from teachers across the country, who accused him of exposing them and learners to coronavirus.

OPPOSITION MDC MPs have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration of reversing the land reform programme by seizing idle land from black people for redistribution to white Zimbabweans, the Daily News reports.

TEACHERS across the country have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of exposing them and learners to coronavirus following his decision to keep schools open after banning all large public gatherings.

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has slammed Zanu PF MPs for disrupting Parliament’s portfolio committee meetings chaired by MDC legislators saying the development contradicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision.

SAKUNDA Holdings yesterday said it executed above board the financing of Command Agriculture and challenged Parliament, if in doubt, to call for a joint sitting of the energy company and the ministries of Agriculture and Finance to iron out…

DURING the countdown to the 2018 harmonised elections, most parliamentary aspirants articulated their manifestos with aplomb in front of thousands of supporters at rallies, but the dexterity and linguistic acrobatics they displayed at the…

LEGISLATORS have demanded clarity from the government regarding its decision to increase examination fees again, barely a fortnight after backtracking on its earlier decision to raise them from the previous structure approved in 2015.

THERE was drama in Parliament yesterday as Zanu PF MPs disrupted proceedings of the portfolio committee on Public Accounts, demanding that MDC MP for Harare East Tendai Biti, pictured, recuses himself from chairing the meeting until his…

PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday demanded the dissolution of the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board for allegedly sleeping on the job and looting the association’s resources.

THE GRAIN Marketing Board (GMB) has been thrown into turmoil amid allegations that some board members have assumed the day-to-day running of the parastatal after usurping management’s authority.

THE mystery over the US$840 million allegedly paid to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for Command Agriculture deepened yesterday with the company distancing itself from the programme.

GRAIN millers are in the habit of hoarding government’s subsidised maize meal to sell on the black market, a development that has led to serious shortages of the product, Parliament heard yesterday.

INDEPENDENT power producers (IPPS), who are courting foreign investors, have told Parliament the financiers are demanding power purchasing agreements (PPA)s which stipulate that payment be denominated in US$, but payable in local currency…

PARLIAMENT has raised concern over several ministries that have been avoiding bringing parastatals audit reports under their purview to be debated in the house, the Daily News reports.

STUDENTS from the country’s State universities and colleges told Parliament yesterday that high fees must fall — adding that recent fee hikes by the government would prevent equal access to education, the Daily News reports.

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, has been warned against betraying his late predecessor Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy, which saw the former prime minister becoming the only person ever to defeat Zimbabwe’s late ex-leader Robert Mugabe in…

PARLIAMENTARIANS have resolved to facilitate amendments to the Immigration, Refugee, The Trafficking in Persons, Citizenship and the Birth and Death Registration Acts to, among other things, strengthen migration governance in the country.

PARLIAMENT has summoned the country’s educators to discuss the impact of the recent increase in fees by higher and tertiary institutions on the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal number four, the Daily News reports.

THE opposition MDC has proposed that decisions made by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the conduct of elections in the country should be reviewed by the courts.

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa risks failure to see through his term of office if he does not embrace the opposition party’s proposals for political and electoral reforms.

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday turned down a request by Zanu PF MPs to have service stations designated for them to enable them to get fuel without enduring long queues.

GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday snubbed the parliamentary portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture Water and Rural Resettlement when it visited his milling company in Harare’s Workington…

GOVERNMENT says machete-wielding artisanal miners going by the moniker MaShurugwi, who are wreaking havoc in various mining towns around the country, are sponsored by wealthy individuals.

OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa warned yesterday that the worsening economic situation in the country had created conditions conducive for a revolution, the Daily News reports.