The Insider

Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba raised eyebrows yesterday when he asked what kind of parliamentarians Zimbabwe’s legislators were because they had not gone to see the extent of the Tokwe-Mukosi disaster which has seen hundreds of villagers evacuated because of flooding.

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The Member of Parliament for Chiredzi South Callisto Gwanetsa had described his constituency as a South African constituency though it is in Zimbabwe because it is completely cut off with the people watching South African television and listening to South African radio.

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A member of the Movement for Democratic Change claims that national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa leaked to the media the letter by deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma to party leader Morgan Tsvangirai calling on him to step down to save the party.

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A Member of Parliament has claimed that bureaucracy is slowing down development of the state-owned mobile network, NetOne. A decision which its major competitor- the privately-owned Econet- makes in a day takes NetOne at least a year, he claimed.

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Zimbabwe was yesterday named in the British House of Lords as one of the countries that is refusing to accept its citizens so they cannot be sent back from the United Kingdom.

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Former student leader Job Sikhala, the maverick politician from the Movement for Democratic Change is back in the limelight. And the media has swallowed the bait. He claims to have rejoined the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai because he has realised that egos are not getting them anywhere. There is need for people to unite to bring back democracy to Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe’s parliament has brought up a very timely subject- corruption- because it is killing the country. As one legislator said, it is worse than AIDS because it kills the innocent. But parliament got it wrong from the start by exonerating some people. This is not right. There should be no sacred cows. Everyone must be made accountable.

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Belgium, which pressed the European Union to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe’s diamonds, is now trying to cash in on the diamonds and is promising better returns than any other market.

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