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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Mr Speaker Sir, while the Labour Act is going through some amendments, there is need to strike a balance that will benefit both employers and the employees. There can be no employees without employers. As such, there is need to ensure that companies also remain afloat.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Members of Parliament have for a long time been considered toothless bulldogs who are wasting taxpayers’ money going to the august House to bootlick their masters instead of providing checks and balances to the Executive.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Every revolution is bound to have some shortcomings during its implementation but integrity is about biting the bullet and addressing the same regardless of how unpopular the decision may appear to any constituent.
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Loyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir I cannot imagine people in a constituency voting for someone to be a Member of Parliament so that they can just take their voices to Parliament, make laws and hold the executive to account.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir What is clear is that Zanu-PF’s image has been tarnished in Harare because of the extortionist behaviour of some of its officials, yet it has been slow to distance itself from such thugs or to reprimand them.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Mr Speaker Sir, if MPs who are expected to be travelling between Harare and their constituencies on a weekly basis can do with one official vehicle, how come ministers whose business is usually in and around Harare can’t do it?
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir Ordinary people have every right to think that the demand for diplomatic passports has nothing to do with increased efficiency by legislators but prestige and glamour.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir Mr Speaker Sir, would it make business sense for a supermarket to continue operating if street vendors appear untouchable as they sell the same products that are found in the shop on the verandah of the same shops at nominal prices?
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir The potential game changer for Southern African countries is capital to fund the Industrialisation Strategy adopted by the Heads of State and Government at the recent Sadc Extraordinary Summit held in Harare.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir The past two weeks or so have put Parliament to test as to how to interpret the law on MPs crossing the floor and how one ceases to represent the party on whose ticket they were elected. What is clear is that every case has to be considered on its merits […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Forget about the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act being the reason there is minimal Foreign Direct Investment. Neither is it the unpredictability of the implementation of the laws here nor alleged lack of property rights. If these were the reasons the country would not have attracted and
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir A Constitution is nothing but just an ordinary document when its provisions are flouted at will by those who are supposed to abide by them.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Lack of clarity on anything to do with the law is a recipe for disaster as its interpretation becomes subject to one’s discretion. Mr Speaker Sir, the issue about legalities surrounding spot fines has once again hogged the limelight following recent pronouncements by High Court Judge, Justice Francis Bere that no […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir Driving through some of what used to be open spaces in high-density suburbs, one is greeted by imposing billboards inscribed so-and-so housing co-operative with some squalid structures that they call home.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir The other day while having lunch at a local restaurant with colleagues, we overheard a fairly old-looking couple discussing the recent developments in Zanu-PF and Government that saw former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her faction falling by the wayside in the recent realignment that has dominated news headlines of […]