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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday Members of Parliament cannot ask the President questions in Parliament. They should direct all their questions to ministers.

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The deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Chiratidzo Mabuwa is optimistic that the country is on its way to recovery citing that the food and beverage industry is now operating at nearly full capacity.

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Justice Minister Emerson Mnangagwa today said he was not sure when Members of Parliament who were not re-elected  and those still owed allowances for the last parliament sittings will be paid.

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The rise of former Central Bank governor Gideon Gono to the Senate to fill the vacancy left by Kumbirai Kangai is not guaranteed as some people want to make it look.

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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said that the new constitution will be available in 16 languages and the government has already printed over 750 000 copies in English, Shona and Ndebele and will distribute these to provincial capitals next month.

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Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba today brought up the issue of the Independent Media Panel of Inquiry again, the second time in two months, asking why members of the panel continued to get allowances of between $5 000 and $10 000 a month while salaries of Zimbabwe Broadcasting employees, some of whom were earning $400 a month, had been slashed by half.

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Indeed, why should Africa be an exception? Why should Africa listen or look to others for a solution to its problems? Why should Zimbabwe look to outsiders for a solution to its problems? The foundation is already there. Yet, even the government, which introduced the indigenisation laws and gave land to the people seems to be doubting itself too.

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The Member of Parliament for Mbizvo Settlement Chikwinya yesterday introduced a motion calling on Education Minister Lazarus Dokora to urgently convene a national summit to look at the deteriorating education in the country as well as to reverse his directives on entrance examinations for Form One and holiday lessons.

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Before, during and after the US Africa -summit one of the most frequently repeated factoids supporting the Africa Rising meme was that ‘seven out of ten fastest growing economies are in Africa.’ In reality this is both a far less accurate and much less impressive statistic than it sounds.  More generally, narratives on African economic development tend to be loosely connected to facts, and instead are driven more by hype.

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The announcement yesterday by Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya that Zimbabwe will import coins whose value will be at par with United States cents raises a very important question: What happened to the Reserve   Bank’s coin mint in Bulawayo?

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