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Lloyd Gumbo: Mr Speaker Sir Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation has for the third time in as many weeks outdone itself as authorities there seem to be on an overdrive to unduly over-censor themselves even when there is no need to.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Earlier this year, we published a story about a code of conduct for Members of Parliament that the legislature was drafting with the intention of upholding good corporate governance for our representatives.
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Lloyd Gumbo: Mr Speaker Sir Following President Mugabe’s official opening of the Fourth Session of the Eighth Parliament yesterday, there are a number of things particularly behaviour one would expect to be a thing of the past. Mr Speaker Sir, Parliamentarians derive their authority from the people who elected them.
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Lloyd Gumbo: Mr Speaker Sir Treasury’s recent suspension by a year of import duty on Zesa equipment is indeed a welcome development for the country as it will go a long way in reducing the cost of power projects and subsequently tariffs, though more still needs to be done to enhance the ease of doing business […]
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Lloyd Gumbo : Mr Speaker Sir The world over, use of plastic money has increased as a security measure and efficient way of conducting transactions on the back of vibrant information communication technologies that have sped up transactions for businesses and their clients. Zimbabwe is no exception as Government and the financial services sector have been at […]
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Lloyd Gumbo : Mr Speaker Sir Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Professor, Calestous Juma, famed for agricultural innovation in Africa, in one of his writings said agribusiness in Africa needs to be nudged towards a tipping point from which it can take off. He noted that past efforts to promote agribusiness were not successful partly because of […]
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Lloyd Gumbo : Mr Speaker, Sir The recent transfer of police officers from Beitbridge district and the impending transfer of officials from other departments over alleged corruption at the border came as good news to the majority of Zimbabweans but yet another sign of impunity to some of us. Mr Speaker, reports abound that officials at the […]
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Lloyd Gumbo : Mr Speakers Sir When the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation started giving live coverage to Parliamentary Question Time every Wednesday and radio coverage by Spot FM for ordinary sittings from Tuesdays to Thursdays in April 2014, I warned MPs about the repercussions of such a move on those prone to abusing the cameras.
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Lloyd Gumbo : Mr Speaker Sir The recent public hearings on the Land Commission Bill should have been an eye-opener to Parliament about its sins of commission or omission as members of the public expressed their displeasure at what they regarded as utter disdain for them by authorities. If the contributions to the Bill by Zimbabweans in […]
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Llodyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Mr Speaker Sir, all corrupt officials regardless of their position must be severely punished to prove to the citizens that indeed corruption has no place in Zimbabwe.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Revenge porn is a serious social and legal problem that could affect the majority of citizens including adolescents and teenagers who may find the publication of their explicit images or videos too much to bear, which could force them to commit suicide or go wild feeling that they have nothing to […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Mr Speaker Sir, events of the past few weeks have dampened spirits, but make no mistake about it, this does not mean we are in recession already; it is a cash crisis that can be dealt with as long as the right mechanisms are put in place.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Oftentimes, troublesome Members of Parliament across the world have been likened to children because of the “childish” manner in which they behave when in the House, but if children watched them, they would feel really insulted.
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Lloyd Gumbo This column has for the past two-and-a-half years that it has been in existence religiously focused on policy issues and ignored human interest goings on among our Parliamentarians, but donkeys are the only consistent creatures as was asserted by one good Professor a few years ago.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir One of the major problems in Zimbabwe is that people without the required capacity have been given authority to negotiate mega-deals with investors, yet the country has people with that capacity who should take the lead in negotiating these deals.