Education Amendment Bill torches debate
The proposed Education Amendment Bill has torched debate among citizens, particularly clause 68(d)(1) of the Bill that prohibits pupils from being expelled from school after falling pregnant, with many conservative participants at public hearings saying it sets a bad precedent…
Leave No Youth Behind speaks on July 30 elections period
By Zim Sentinel Youth advocacy organisation and civic pressure group Leave No Youth Behind, which was active in mobilizing youths to vote in the July 30 polls, has released a statement in which it raised concern on the post-election violence…
MDC Must Not Demonstrate: Mliswa
Member of Parliament and Independent candidate for Norton constituency in the House of Assembly Honourable Temba Mliswa has castigated double standards of the current crop of politicians and said Zimbabwe was in a new era of politics. While…
MDC-T UNLIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN BY ELECTIONS
Misheck Shambare Movement for Democratic Change Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora yesterday maintained their stance that they will not participate by elections of MDC renewal called MPs although the national council is meeting over the issue. This come amid the recall…
Will the MDCs contest in the looming by-elections?
When the Morgan Tsvangirai led MDC-T first attempted to have Mps that had broken ranks with the party recalled in parliament, they met resistance as the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda said only the courts could settle the dispute. Tendai…
Doctors to engage government over contracts
Nyaradzai Gogo Doctors have rejected government’s new offer of contracts, describing them as ”íllegal poorly drafted’ the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) said on Wednesday. Industry regulator, the Health Services Board (HSB), recently announced regulation that tie down all new…
Parliament’s Undemocratic Game of Musical Chairs
By Takura Zhangazha There is a game of musical chairs currently going on in our Parliament. Using Section 129 (1k) of the new constitution, political parties that have split or are in the throes of factional fights have decided to…