MDC Alliance legislators will not receive their sitting allowances for the past five months after they walked out of the National Assembly chamber when President Mnangagwa was about to present his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Harare yesterday. The MPs had also refused to stand when the President walked into the chamber as required by Parliament’s decorum. The ruling was made by Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda in his capacity as Head of Parliament after the presentation of the SONA which also coincided with the opening of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament. “The behaviour which has been demonstrated by the honourables who walked out when His Excellency the President started to speak shall not be allowed to come back during this sit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in Uganda one week from now Tuesday at the greeting of Yoweri Museveni as Uganda holds its 57th Independence Day and festivities, Esther Mbayo, the Ugandan priest for administration, has said. Mbayo said Mnangagwa will go to the 57th Independence Day festivities as an extraordinary visitor of the nation. "President Yoweri Museveni will be the main visitor who has additionally welcomed another uncommon visitor Emmerson Mnangagwa, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe," Mbayo told columnists on Tuesday at the Uganda Media Center. Museveni was in Zimbabwe in April this year where he joined the chorale of African pioneers approaching the west to lift authorizations forced on a portion of Zimbabwe's legislature and politic
Vice President, Gen. (Rtd) C.G.D.N. Chiwenga; Vice President Col. (Rtd) K.C.D. Mohadi; Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate J. Mudenda; Madam President of the Senate, Mai M.Chinomona; Honourable Members of Parliament; Fellow Zimbabweans; Comrades and friends; Before I begin my address, I kindly request the August House to observe a minute of silence in honour of the late Founding Father of our country and Former President, His Excellency, Cde R. G. Mugabe who passed on, on the 6th of September 2019. As we remember him, let us stand emboldened by the fact that we cannot change the past, but the future is in our hands. Mr Speaker Sir; My Government continues to take bold and decisive steps to open up and grow the economy for the benefit of all our people. The road map articulated in o
President Mnangagwa arrived back home last night from the 74th Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States of America, where he joined other Heads of State and Government to discuss global issues. He met World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Mr David Beasley and several other dignitaries. The President also addressed several business meetings to lure investors. The Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) was welcomed at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport by Vice President Kembo Mohadi, Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, Minister of State Security Owen Ncube, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda, Service Chiefs and other high-ranking Government officia
The future of former First Lady, Grace Mugabe, who arguably created more enemies than friends during her husband’s last days in office, now hangs in the balance. The demise of the former president, Robert Mugabe, the man from whom Grace drew power and protection, leaves his wife now exposed. Grace, who during the greater part of husband’s presidency had been focused on charity work, before later venturing into politics. With the support of Mugabe, Grace was in December 2014 parachuted to the helm of ZANU-PF Women’s League, automatically qualifying to sit in the ruling party’s highest decision-making body, the Politburo. The ex-First Lady then used her position and marriage to Mugabe to vilify all those she perceived to be harbouring ambitions of succeedi
It’s been an appropriately fractured, uneasy week in Zimbabwe. As the country has tried to deal with the long-anticipated death of its loved and loathed founding father, Robert Mugabe, the nation has experienced an unsettling and contradictory jumble of deep reverence, nostalgia, indifference, hypocrisy and anger, combined with an almost soap-opera quantity of plot twists. At the heart of those contradictions and twists, sits the enigmatic and widely reviled Grace Mugabe – the grieving widow, her face now hidden beneath a dark veil, a woman whose fortunes, over the decades, have revealed so much about how power really works in Zimbabwe. She was the secretary who married the president, who then became infamous for her lavish shopping sprees and fiery temper. Grace earne
The late former President Cde Robert Mugabe will be buried at the national heroes acre on a date to be announced. This was said by the Mugabe family spokesperson Mr Leo Mugabe in an interview with Zimpapers Television Network at the Blue Roof mansion this morning. “The family and the tradional leaders have pronounced that he will be buried at the National Heroes Acre…as to when he will be buried there are things that the chiefs want done at the national heroes acre and those will take time. “I would also want to dispel the rumours that have been doing the rounds that the chiefs were paid, they were not paid. It’s all absolute nonsense, they were not paid. When we visited the President I was with them. It was merely meant to go and thank the Government for
reports that Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will be buried early next week in his village and not at a national monument for liberation heroes, his family said on Thursday. The family of Mugabe, who died in Singapore last week, and Zimbabwe’s government have been at odds over whether he would be buried in his homestead in Kutama, northwest of Harare, or at the National Heroes Acre in the capital.His body will lie in state at Kutama on Sunday night.., followed by a private burial – either Monday or Tuesday – no National Heroes Acre. That’s the decision of the whole family,” his nephew Leo Mugabe told AFP. Mugabe, whose autocratic rule ended in a military coup in 2017, died last week aged 95. His body was flown back from Singapore on Wednesd
Eleven Heads of State and eight former Presidents from various African countries have so far confirmed their attendance at the late former President Robert Mugabe’s State funeral service set for Saturday. Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet in charge of Presidential Communications, Mr George Charamba confirmed the list of the Heads of State that will attend the ceremony in a statement this afternoon. The 11 are Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, DRC’S Felix Tshisekedi, Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, Malawi’s Arthur Peter Mutharika, Angola’s Joao Laurenco, Saharawi’s Brahim Ghali, South Africa’s Cyril Rhamaphosa, Mozambique’s Felipe Nyusi, Zambia’s Edgar Lungu, Namibia’s Hage Geingob
ven in death, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe remains an Achilles’ heel for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legitimacy. Since 1977, Mnangagwa has been on Mugabe’s side – first as his assistant, then as a body guard and then as a trusted minister from 1980, only to leave cabinet between 2000 and 2005, when he lost in parliamentary elections. Still, Mugabe kept him on the political radar as speaker of parliament, despite Mnangagwa plotting with Jonathan Moyo to effect “leadership change” in the Zanu-PF that would have resulted in a palace coup to remove Mugabe through the infamous Dinyane Declaration in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North. Despite spending all these years as allies, in his last days in office last year, Mugabe passed a vote of
