NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa was on Tuesday ejected from Parliament after accusing Zanu-PF of killing thousands of people in Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities. Mliswa was debating the Patriotic Bill which human rights defenders have warned will dangerously threaten freedom of speech in Zimbabwe if passed into law. Acts which will…
PARLIAMENTARIANS have renewed calls for the government to dump the weakening local currency saying it has contributed to rising inflation, urging readoption of the USD. The Zimbabwe dollar, which was readopted in 2020 after years of using foreign currency, has been on a freefall losing value against the greenback. The Zimbabwe dollar is currently trading…
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to respond to Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia investigative documentary which has alleged involvement of the First Family and other senior government officials in alleged gold and money laundering activities in Zimbabwe. Al Jazeera released a four-part documentary series centred on a secret recording of Mnangagwa's…
HARARE - Outspoken Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, challenged the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena's Cottco fraud case. Mliswa said NPA must tell where the US$5 million went if the authority does not have evidence against Wadyajena. Mliswa's remarks come barely days after Wadyajena (ZANU PF) was acquitted in a…
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has defended an alleged US$40 000 purse dangled at sitting members of parliament (MPs) as loans by government ahead of next year’s elections. Mliswa, who is on record saying his concerns about the welfare of MPs, have at times been sponsored by opposition and ruling party legislators, questioned why there had…