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The Movement for Democratic Change National Council has suspended deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma for ignoring the directive of the National Executive not to discuss party business through the press and fanning factionalism within the Party.

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Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke says reviving the country’s economy is the only way to combat corruption because “when the economy is underperforming, the civil service is underpaid, the private sector keeps workers without paying salaries; it becomes a haven for corruption”.

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Members of Parliament insisted that they had to play an oversight role on corruption in the country with Mutasa South Member of Parliament Irene Zindi sponsoring a motion for the setting up of an 18-member Parliamentary Committee to do that.

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Mugabe threatens to deal with gays -President Robert Mugabe today threatened to deal with the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe saying he was not aware that there was such an organisation in the country. “I understand muno mune chigroup chehomesexuality. Handina kunge ndachiziva ndakaudzwa marimwezuro kuti kune chigroup ichocho saka tinoda kuchiwona kuti ndivanani varimo,” he said, meaning he understood that there was an association of homosexuals and he had only been informed about it two days before so he would like to know who is in that group. GALZ was reportedly formed in 1989 and won a court victory last week after a magistrate threw out a case in which the chair of GALZ Martha Tholanah had been taken to court for running an unregistered organisation. Speaking at his daughter Bona’s wedding, Mugabe backed Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for passing an anti-gay law in his country arguing that marrying a man with a man could not be considered a human right. “They want to tell us for example that it’s a violation of human rights, ndozvirikuitwa Museveni iye zvinoizvi, for you, for us to refuse man to man interaction, kuti murume nemurume vachate. Mukaramba izvozvo you are breaching human rights. But which of these is a breach of human rights? Kubvuma kuti murume nemurume vachate kuchengeta human rights ikoko? Hakusi kutyora human rights? The human right you have as a man is to marry another woman not to get another man to marry. Ndozvatinoramba izvozvo. Zvonzi makarambirei izvozvo we won’t give you aid. Ndozvakaitwa Musevenika akaita law in Uganda just now to punish those who want to take other men as their what . . . I can’t say wives because a wife must a woman. In the Bible there is no wife who is described as a man. Husbands are husbands and wives are wives,” he said.

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A Member of Parliament has said that some government ministers in Zimbabwe are so corrupt that if they shake hands with you, you have to check whether they have not stolen a finger.

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The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda had to issue a ruling on Wednesday calling on Members of Parliament not to make unsubstantiated allegations in parliament following a spate of accusations mostly centred around corruption which has rocked the country in recent weeks following what has now been dubbed salarygate. Here is his full statement:

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The Member of Parliament for Bulilima East Mathias Ndlovu said the high salaries that were being paid to chief executives of state enterprises were the creation of the Movement for Democratic Change and they deliberately inflated the salaries.

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Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister for Agriculture Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has called for an urgent land audit saying First Lady Grace Mugabe has grabbed 800 hectares of prime land in Mazowe leaving hundreds of workers unemployed and homeless.

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Binga North Member of Parliament Dubeko Sibanda said he did not believe that the executive, which comprises President Robert Mugabe and his cabinet, can end corruption because some of them were involved in corrupt activities.

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