http://news.radiovop.com
20/03/2010 21:23:00
Harare, March 21,
2010 - The Zimbabwe government is within the next few days
expected to make
radical changes to the controversial indigenisation
regulations announced by
the Minister of Indigenisation and Empowerment,
Saviour Kasukuwere in
January.
This will be a major climbdown by President Robert Mugabe and
his Zanu PF
party, who have insisted that there is no going back on the
regulations.
Inside sources confirmed that Kasukuwere was forced to drop
his initial
regulations which were widely viewed as elitist. The amended
version is said
to be structured along the lines of South Africa's Broad
Based Black
Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), which was enacted in 2007
following complaints
that its predecessor the Black Economic Empowerment
(BEE) Act benefited only
a small black elite.
"The changes have
already been through a number of channels and if all goes
according to plan
they should be presented the Council of Ministers on
Thursday, March 25,"
said a source close to the changes.
According to the source, close to ten
changes have been made touching
timeframes for the implementation of
thresholds for different sectors.
"The regulations will not be presented
in a blanket manner as was the case,"
added the source.
"Each sector
will come up with its own thresholds and time frames for
implementation, and
there will be strict mechanisms to ensure that those who
have already
benefited from previous empowerment schemes like Philip
Chiyangwa and
Kasukuwere himself do not benefit alone at the expense of
ordinary
Zimbabweans," said the source.
Instead of only considering blacks as
indigenous, the revised law will also
accommodate those whites who have
known only Zimbabwe as their own home.
Kasukuwere could not be reached
for comment, but the source said he had
already completed the changes. Once
they are presented to the Council of
Ministers, which comprises all members
of Cabinet except President Robert
Mugabe, the provisions will be further
discussed at a Cabinet meeting on
March 29, before being taken to Cabinet
for rubber stamping the following
day.
There was a chorus of
complaints from all corners after Kasukuwere
unilaterally gazetted the
regulations. It was widely feared that the
regulations would repel potential
foreign investors who were beginning to
gain some confidence in the country
following the success of the inclusive
government.
http://news.yahoo.com
AFP
Sun Mar 21, 7:26 am
ET
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's state-run power utility firm owes other
regional
electricity suppliers 100 million dollars (74 million euros) as it
struggles
to recover debts from local customers, a report said on
Sunday.
Ben Rafemoyo, chief executive of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply
Authority,
said low tariffs and failure by customers to settle their bills
was stalling
recovery prospects.
"As of last month, we were nearing
100 million" in debts, Rafemoyo told the
state-run Sunday Mail.
"If
we restore capacity, we would like to pay for the current bill and a
portion
to cover part of our debt so that we continuously chew into it."
While
ZESA bills its customers 38 million dollars per month, it is failing
to
collect as much, he added.
"Currently, we are recovering between 65 and
70 percent of our billing
average. But we have accumulated bills that we are
still dealing with in
terms of debt management."
Much of Zimbabwe
endures daily power outages which can last 10 to 15 hours.
Some areas can go
without electricity for months, as the power utility
struggles to maintain
its grid.
A decade of economic collapse has left power stations in
disrepair, with
generators operating at about one-third of their
capacity.
ZESA has inked an agreement with counterparts in Botswana and
Namibia to
revive a thermal power station in Bulawayo city and to fix a
thermal plant
at Hwange in a bid to ease blackouts.
http://www.apanews.net
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) A resurgent cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
has so far
infected about 100 people and claimed three lives since it was
detected last
November, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports here
Sunday.
The UN agency also reports that more than 30 others have been
infected by a
typhoid outbreak that has hit a poor suburb of the Zimbabwean
capital
Harare.
About 99 cholera cases have been reported in seven of
Zimbabwe's 62
districts over the past four months, according to
WHO.
The figure is however significantly lower than the more than 90,000
cases
that had been recorded around the same time at the height of another
outbreak that ended in July last year.
An outbreak of typhoid fever
has been reported by the Harare City Health
Department in the suburb of
Mabvuku in the eastern part of the city.
"A total of 32 cases and 5
deaths were reported by 7 March, 6 samples were
laboratory confirmed to be
Salmonella typhi," WHO said.
The typhoid outbreak is blamed on the
perennial water shortages in Mabvuku.
JN/daj/APA
2010-03-21
http://news.radiovop.com
21/03/2010 15:23:00
Mwenezi, March
21, 2010 - The Zanu PF youth militia under the command of
newly appointed
politburo member, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, has turned back the
clock of time,
setting up liberation war style''liberated zones'' in the
whole of Mwenezi
in a desperate attempt to totally eliminate the opposition
Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) in the event of elections next year.
Information
gleaned from the former ruling party functionaries in the
area,recently
showed that the overzealous Bhasikiti has of late been
commandeering Zanu PF
youths trained at the infamous Border Gezi Youth
Indoctrination centres, to
create no go areas for the opposition in
preparation of polls that might be
held next year.
Zanu PF's President Robert Mugabe and MDC's Prime
Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai, the key rivals in Zimbabwe's seemingly unending
political
stand-off have recently been urging their supporters to prepare
for fresh
polls in the event that the Global Political Agreement (GPA) which
gave rise
to the unity government in the country fails. The two leaders, who
met with
President Jacob Zuma recently, agreed to a package of measures
aimed at
fully implementing the stalled GPA.
It emerged this week
that Bhasikiti, who is also the House of Assembly
representative for Mwenezi
East, has already started to prepare for next
elections in the district by
setting up secretive torture camps in remote
conservancies that were
forcibly grabbed from whites in Mwenezi.
Bhasikiti, who was this year
rewarded for ensuring Zanu PF hegemony in
Mwenezi with a deputy secretary
for economic affairs post in the ex-ruling
party's Soviet style political
bureau, in short, politburo, has been
reportedly running around to pay back
his masters by creating no go areas
for the opposition in secretive and
remote conservancies that were
expropriated from former white
farmers.
''They have set up no go areas for the opposition in areas such
as Maranda,
Neshuro and Dinhe where they are eliminating all suspected MDC
sympathisers.
Members of the youth wing under the instructions of the local
MP Bhasikiti
are behind the project as they are moving around telling
villagers to be
wary of the enemy(MDC) ahead of elections next year,,''said
an MDC supporter
who preffered not to be named for fear of
reprisals.
He added,'' We are now afraid even to put on our MDC regalia
because if the
youths discover it it means the end of us as they have set up
torture camps
and zones in this district where it is virtually not allowed
according to
them to be a supporter of the opposition.''
The MDC
supporter added that the liberated zones were being controlled by
war
veterans who were terrorising villagers and teaching them Zanu PF
propaganda
to raise emotions in anticipation of elections that will be held
next
year.
Contacted for comment Bhasikiti said: ''There is no such thing as
liberated
zones because Mwenezi is already a known Zanu PF stronghold, the
opposition
has no room and will never have it. What is wriong by frequently
urging our
people to be vigilant.''
MDC-T provicial secretary for
Masvingo Tongai Matutu lashed out Zanu PF for
trying to live in the past
saying old tacts were not going to work in an
area that was now ripe for
change.
''Zimbabweans know what they want and that is a departure from
Mugabe's
kleptocracy and that is not going to change whether they create so
called
liberated zones or not the the truth of the matter is that the
atmosphere is
pregnant for change and it is the MDC that will deliver that
change no
matter what,''said Matutu.
Mwenezi is one of the poorest
districts in Masvingo and most families in the
area are dependent on South
Africa where thousands of their children have
sought refuge in search of
jobs and occassionally remit funds back home to
their
families.
Meanwhile in Masvingo, the Zanu PF provincial executive has
fired three of
its councilors in Chivi including the Rural District Council
(RDC) vice
chairman Owen Mudzivo who are being accused of having a cordial
relationship
with Tsvangirai's MDC leadership in their area.
Masvingo
Provincial Chairman Lovemore Matuke refused to give light
concerning the
issue. However RadioVOP was reliably informed that there was
drama in a Zanu
PF dominated Chivi Rural District's full Council meeting on
Friday when
other Zanu PF councilors booed and heckled at the fired
councilors.
"Umnn.they were not fired as such but umnn..Who told you
this issue," said
Matuke before he blamed poor network connection and
switched off his mobile.
Owen Mudzivo (Ward 3) confirmed that the three
were called to a disciplinary
meeting for allegedly hanging with MDC-T
officials. The
issue came to light when Mudzivo and his other councilors for
ward six and
15 attended Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's rallies in the
area last
week.
"I really do not know why we are being crucified. I
heard that we are now
dining with MDC-T officials but the only day I got
closer to MDC-T is when I
attended Prime Minister's rally last
week.
"We are yet to take our issue up because we think it was not fair
to dismiss
us from the party just because of that. Surprisingly,
just
because I was fired, the next day, I was demoted from the position of
vice
chairperson in the council," said Mudzivo.
Councilor Cleopas
Magwizi (Ward 8) who is also Zanu PF central committee
member and national
youth legal affairs chairman is accused
of having masterminded the downfall
of the three councilors.
Magwizi is a Zanu PF hardliner who has been for
long reported of victimizing
MDC-T supporters in Chivi.
However,
Magwizi denied having a hand in the expulsion of anyone but was
quick to say
that no one in the party is immune to disciplinary
action. "How can I report
them, it was clear that they are willing to go to
MDC. There is no one
immune to disciplinary action in the party."
Senator for Chivi-Mwenezi
and former governor for Masvingo who is also Zanu
PF politburo member Josiah
Hungwe accepted that the three were called for a
disciplinary hearing but
declined to give the outcome of the meeting.
"Yes they were called but
for now I can't say they were fired or not," said
Hungwe.
http://news.radiovop.com
21/03/2010 15:19:00
Harare- March 21, 2010
- Disgruntled members of the Zimbabwe National
Liberation War Veterans
Association (ZNLWVA) in the Joseph Chinotimba led
faction have turned their
sharp swords against the permanent secretary in
ministry of Media,
Information and Publicity George, Charamba whom they are
accusing of
supporting and advising their bitter rival Jabulani Sibanda.
Former
ZNLWVA national secretary Retired Major Alex Mudavanhu who had since
disputed and nullified Sibanda's Saturday victory labeled Charamba an enemy
of the war veterans.
"We did not expect Charamba to act like that, he
is now our enemy. We are
aware that he is the one who is ill-advising
Sibanda. In as far as we know,
there is no election which was held, it's
just Charamba who is trying to
play cheap politics.
"Our position
will remain that Sibanda is not our Chairman, unless there are
democratic
elections, this man (Sibanda) will remain suspended. Our Chairman
is Cde
Chinotimba full stop," said Mudavanhu.
"We do not know why Charamba, a
mere civil servant get involved in our
issues, he is not a war veteran after
all," added Mudavanhu.
Jabulani Sibanda who was once fired from Zanu PF
was elected to become
ZNLWVA's chairman for the next five years at a
congress held at Chaminuka
Training Center in Bindura on
Saturday.
However, Chinotimba's led faction was busy spreading
information that the
congress had been cancelled when Sibanda faction was
having elections for
the members who are supposed to lead war veterans in
the next five years.
Chinotimba said his faction will have an urgent
meeting to come up with a
solution on Monday at a venue which he denied to
disclose in Harare.
Chinotimba accused Sibanda of being sponsored by
donors from Europe to
destroy the association.
"We are aware that he
was dishing out money to his puppets. Where did he get
the money to hire
those buses to Bindura. Sibanda is being sponsored by
Europe to destroy this
association. We will never allow him.
"Charamba is also in this messy, he
is the one who just came with a write-up
and gave it to the public media for
publishing," said Chinotimba.
http://www.zimeye.org/?p=15187
By John Chimunhu
Published: March
21, 2010
HARARE - Government has issued notice that it will
compulsorily acquire
land belonging to property tycoon Phillip Chiyangwa for
undisclosed urban
developments.
Minister of Lands and Rural
Resettlement Herbert Murerwa on Friday published
a notice confirming that
President Robert Mugabe wants Chiyangwa's land in
Stoneridge area of
Harare.
"Notice is hereby given.that the President intends to acquire
compulsorily
the land described in the schedule for urban development,"
Murerwa's
statement said.
The notice then listed three properties,
one of them belonging to Chiyangwa's
flagship Pinnacle Property Holdings,
"being Remainder A of Stoneridge,
measuring 586,89 hectares".
The
other two properties listed are also in the capital and belong to the
Zimbabwe Tobacco Association and Jetmaster Properties.
The move has
thrown jitters into the property market as Chiyangwa has been
doing brisk
business selling off prime land especially to Zimbabweans in the
diaspora.
Recently, Harare Mayor Muchadei Masunda announced that the
City Council was
probing how Chiyangwa acquired land in Harare, making him
possibly the
largest private property owner in the city.
Flaboyant
Chiyangwa was flighted by Zimbabwe's minister of Indigenisation
and
Empowerment Savour Kasukuwere as a shining example of empowerment in a
recent BBC documentary.
Comment was not immediately available from
either Murerwa or Chiyangwa.
However, speculation was rife in Zimbabwe that
the flamboyant Chiyangwa
might be targeted again by his enemies in Zanu
(PF), of which he was once
Provincial Chairman and MP in Mugabe's home
province of Mashonaland West. He
was removed after he joined a faction
calling for Mugabe's removal.
Mugabe's relative Chiyangwa, a moderate who
backs Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu
(PF) Karanga faction against Herbert
Murerwa's Zezuru faction headed by
Retired General Solomon Mujuru was jailed
for five months in 2004 on
suspicion of spying for South Africa. Several of
his associates were jailed
but charges against the businessman were dropped.
Re "Mnangagwa named in extortion scam" -
https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/old/mar21a_2010.html#Z6
Herewith
are the numbers of the two main people in the
Midlands that are taking money
from farmers for protection in
Mnangagwa's name. I know of a farmer here in
Gweru that paid USD3000
to Jason Machaya but has subsequently lost his farm
and another farmer
that was approached by Jason Machaya to pay USD5000 for
a
"beneficiary" to be told to get off the farmer's land.
Perhaps these
numbers should be put out on the news and people
encouraged to call these
people and remind them that their day of
punishment is getting rather near
and that their actiuons are rather
repulsive.
Contact numbers for
Jason Machaya (Midlands Provincial Governor) and Shoko
(Chief Lands Officer
-Midlands)
Jason Machaya +26354222426
(landline)
Shoko +263912845021 (mobile) so you can
text him
New airline ... A 737-500 like one above can carry
up to 108 passengers
21/03/2010 00:00:00 | |
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A NEW low-cost airline has declared a ticket price war on Air Zimbabwe and South African Airways.
Fly Kumba - Zimbabwe's first low-cost airline - made its maiden flight from Johannesburg to Bulawayo last Thursday.
The flight costs less than HALF what Air Zimbabwe charges, and FOUR TIMES less than travelling on South African Airways.
Fly Kumba, operated by two South Africa-based Zimbabwean businessmen, Patrick Chapwanya and Lloyd Muchaka, will service the Bulawayo-Johannesburg route with three return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
At just R800 for a one-way flight between the two cities in economy class, Fly Kumba has thrown down the pricing gauntlet at its competitors. For the same ticket, Air Zimbabwe charges R1,620 while a ticket on SAA is a cool R3,500.
Fly Kumba is operating a Boeing 737-500 leased from Air Namibia. The plane, with a capacity of 108 passengers, flew 50 people into Bulawayo on its maiden voyage and returned to Jo'burg with 80.
Chapwanya said a low-cost airline was long overdue in the SADC region.
"It was a hard road to this maiden flight but we are now glad to safely say we have taken off. This will be our primary route for now but we are geared to become the first low cost regional airline in due course," he said.
"We view the low cost or budget airline concept as a niche market for us, more so because consumers are now bargain hunters who need the best service at less cost. We are thus geared to deliver the cheapest air fares with the highest consumer value while offering world-class service."
With the cheap tickets, passengers on the flight will however have to forgo meals on the hour-long flight.
The airline says it has placed safety at the heart of its operation, and sees the 2010 FIFA World Cup being hosted by South Africa between June 11-July 11 as an opportunity to cash in.
Ticket Price Comparison
ECONOMY |
BUSINESS | ||
South African Airways |
R3,500
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Air Zimbabwe |
R1,620 |
R2,260 | |
Fly Kumba |
R800 |
R1,200 |
http://www.africasia.com
KRUGER
NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 21 (AFP)
The rhinoceros walking down the road at South
Africa's largest game reserve
had no horns, one of the few to survive a
surge in poaching that has sent
killings to a 15-year high.
A
startled tourist alerted game rangers to the animal, the first time a
poached rhino had been found still alive at Kruger National
Park.
"That was really the first case that I know of where we found a
rhino which
the horn was removed and it was struggling on the road," said
Kruger
spokesman William Mabasa.
His theory is that poachers used a
tranquiliser to let them remove the
rhino's horns silently.
Although
the animal survived the amputation, veterinarians were unable to
save its
life.
"They eventually had to destroy it because the wound was rather too
big,"
Mabasa said.
Two rhinos at a nature reserve near Pretoria
suffered a similar fate earlier
this month after poachers overdosed them
with tranquilisers.
Their fate is emblematic of an insidious turn in the
poaching trade, a top
agenda item at the general assembly of the 175-nation
wildlife treaty CITES
(Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species) underway in Doha.
Black-market demand for rhino horn has soared
in the past several years,
largely due to the economic boom in east and
southeast Asia, where the horn
is used for medicinal purposes.
That
surge in demand has combined with endemic poverty in many rhino
habitats to
push rhino poaching worldwide to the highest levels seen in 15
years,
according to the wildlife monitoring group Traffic.
South Africa and
neighbouring Zimbabwe are responsible for 95 percent of the
poaching,
Traffic said.
Now conservation experts and South African parks officials
say international
crime syndicates have entered the trade.
The
syndicates sponsor organised hunts and, increasingly, use helicopters,
military-grade guns and prescription tranquilisers to pursue their
prey.
"Current rhino poaching trends indicate a high level of
organisation and
crime syndication at the local, national, regional and
international
levels," Reynold Thakhuli, spokesman for South Africa National
Parks, told
AFP.
"Rhino poaching activity has escalated dramatically
throughout South
Africa," he said.
South Africa's national parks say
they lost 36 rhinos to poaching in 2008
and 50 in 2009.
The country
has already lost 31 rhinos to poaching so far this year,
according to the
International Rhino Foundation.
Mabasa said the escalation has hit Kruger
Park particularly hard.
"We'd never had an amount of poaching that I
would refer to as a problem --
not until last year," he said.
"I
think the highest we'd ever had before was seven in one year" in 2008, he
said. "Then in 2009 we lost 41."
International police agency Interpol
is moving to crack down on the trade.
In February the organisation
carried out a month-long sting operation that
led to the seizure of 10
million euros (13.6 million dollars) in illegal
wildlife medicines and a
series of arrests worldwide.
But more international efforts will be
needed to reduce rhino poaching in
southern Africa, said Oubaas Coetzer, an
inspector with the South African
Police Service at Kruger National
Park.
Coetzer said local police have had success in making low-level
arrests. Last
year, they arrested 47 rhino poachers for 50 poaching
incidents.
But poaching only increased.
"We cannot do anything
about the black market price," Coetzer told AFP.
"So you catch somebody
in the syndicate, he's now out of action. But there
are still lots of others
that can fill that space, because of the money.
It's organised crime," he
said.
"Arresting people and sending them to jail is not stopping
(poaching). The
only thing that can help is to reduce or completely stop the
trade in rhino
horn."
Vigil supporters were cautiously
optimistic about the outcome of President Zuma’s visit to
It has been clear to us for some
time that our Dear 86-year-old Leader is not exactly ‘well-informed’ and we
welcome Mr Zuma’s reportedly more robust approach in dealing with a situation
teetering on the brink.
We noted in particular Mr Zuma’s
meetings with Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and National Security Minister
Sydney Sekeramayi. What were they talking about? The Vigil assumes he explained
things to them in terms they will misunderstand at their
peril.
Now that the castrated Gono has been
auctioned off by the Reserve Bank’s creditors, Vigil supporters were pleased
that Attorney-General Tomano is apparently being given a free transfer and that
the talks on implementing the GPA have been set a clear deadline (with the
implication that South African heavies will be stationed at Harare Airport to
stop the negotiators sloping off for their usual shopping trips abroad).
The Vigil will discuss with our
friends in
Vigil supporters, after a
particularly tough winter in the
Some other
points:
·
Thanks to
Sister Beverley Mutandiro who came and led prayers for the
Vigil.
·
Vigil
supporters were encouraged to see that a big MDC Youth demo took place in
·
It was
good to have Susan Chechita with us again.
She comes about twice a month from
For latest Vigil pictures check: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/.
For the latest ZimVigil TV programme provided by ZBN News, check the link at the
top of the home page of our website. For
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ROHR Thurrock & Basildon launch meeting, Saturday 27th March from 1.30 – 6 pm. Venue: Grays
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07533660621, Billy Machekano 07765459538,
·
ROHR
· Southwark Cathedral’s hymn singing
in solidarity with worshippers in
·
·
Zimbabwe Association’s Women’s
Weekly Drop-in Centre. Fridays 10.30 am – 4 pm. Venue:
The Fire Station Community and ICT Centre,
· Strategic Internship for Zimbabweans
organised by
Citizens for Sanctuary which is trying to secure work placements for qualified
Zimbabweans with refugee status or asylum seekers. For information: http://www.citizensforsanctuary.org.uk/pages/Strategic.html
or contact: zimbabweinternship@cof.org.uk.
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BILL WATCH
SPECIAL
[21st March
2010]
House of
Assembly Portfolio Committees and Senate Thematic Committees: Open Meetings 22nd
to 26th March
The
meetings listed below are open to members of the public, as observers only,
not as participants. [See note at the end of this bulletin on public
attendance/participation at different types of committee meetings.]
Notes:
·
Chiadzwa:
Following last week’s appearances before the Portfolio Committee on Mines and
Energy of the Permanent Secretary and Minister of Mines and Mining Development,
the Mbada and Canadile mining companies are listed to give oral evidence to the
Committee on Tuesday 23rd March at 10 am in the Senate Chamber. This meeting is
almost certain to be held behind closed doors [as were the Committee’s
meetings with the Permanent Secretary and the Minister] – but those wishing to
check whether public attendance will be permitted should contact the Committee
Clerk [Mr Manhivi – telephone Harare 700181-8 or 252936-50].
·
Indigenisation
Regulations: The
Thematic Committee on Indigenisation and Empowerment will be
meeting on Thursday 25th March to consider what questions to discuss with the
Minister of Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment. This meeting will not be
open to the public but it would be permissible for interested organisations and
members of the public to make written submissions to the Committee suggesting
questions that should be raised with the Minister. Submissions should be
addressed to the Clerk of Parliament, marked for the attention of the Thematic
Committee on Indigenisation and Empowerment, and delivered to Parliament [Kwame
Nkrumah Avenue entrance] before the 25th March.
Monday 22nd March at
10 am
Portfolio Committee:
Natural Resources, Environment and Tourism
Oral evidence from
NetOne; Econet; Hotel Association; Bankers Association
Committee Room No.
311
Chairperson: Hon P
Dube Mr Munjenge
Portfolio Committee:
Higher Education, Science and Technology
Oral evidence from
ZINASU; ZCOSU; Zimbabwe University Vice-Chancellors
Association
Committee Room No.
3
Hon S.M.
Ncube Miss
Chikuvire
Monday 22nd March at
2 pm
Thematic
Committee: HIV/AIDS
Oral evidence from
National AIDS Council, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance on management
of AIDS levy
Government Caucus
Room
Chairperson: Hon D.
Khumalo Clerk: Mr Ndlovu
Portfolio Committee:
Budget, Finance, Economic Planning and Investment Promotion
Oral evidence from
the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Privatisation of
Parastatals
Committee Room No.
4
Chairperson: Hon
Zhanda Clerk: Mr Ratsakatika
Portfolio Committee:
Public Works and National Housing
Meeting with
representatives of Zimbabwe National Association of Housing
Co-operatives
Committee Room No.
311
Chairperson: Hon. T
Mupukuta Clerk: Mr Mazani
Tuesday 23rd March at
10 am
Thematic Committee:
Millennium Development Goals [MDGs]
Oral evidence from
Ministry of Education on its programme for establishment of schools in newly
resettled areas
Government Caucus
Room
Chairperson: Hon
Chief Mtshane Mrs Nyawo
No Open
Meetings on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
Public
Attendance at and Participation in Committee Meetings
These
portfolio and thematic committee meetings are open to the public to attend as
observers only.
Members of the public wishing to attend a meeting should telephone Parliament
first [on Harare 700181], to check with the relevant committee clerk that the
meeting has not been cancelled. If you are attending, please use the Kwame
Nkrumah Avenue entrance to Parliament. IDs must be produced. Members of the
public are only free to participate when committees call public hearings.
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