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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTES 20_JULY_2005_NO._16

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No.16

PARLIAMENT 

OF ZIMBABWE

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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE

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FIRST SESSION – SIXTH PARLIAMENT

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WEDNESDAY, 20^TH  JULY 2005

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Quarter-past two o’clock p.m.

 

Mr. Speaker in the Chair.

 

PRAYERS.

 

 

Members Present

N.B. Printer please insert all ticked names in column form. 

 

Absent with leave

Chapfika D               Gonese E.

Kangai K.

Kaukonde R. J

Madubeko J

Marumahoko  Masuku A. Mathuthu T.A  Mohadi K.

Mugabe L.

Mzembi W.

Nguni S.R

 

 

 

Printed by Order of the House

 

 

1. Questions without notice.

 

2. Questions with notice.
3. Adjourned debate on motion on the Report of the delegation to the 2005 Mauritius Elections –(Adjourned 19^th July –The Minister of Justice, Legal and   

    Parliamentary Affairs).

Days elapsed:3]

 

Question again proposed: That this House takes note of the Report of the delegation to the SADC Parliamentary Forum Observation Mission to the 2005 Mauritius Parliamentary Elections held on 3^rd July 2005 – Mr J.M Gumbo.

 

On the motion of the Minister of Agriculture: Debate adjourned until tomorrow.

 

4   Adjourned debate on motion on the shortage of food, drugs, foreign currency and energy. (Adjourned 14^th July  - The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs) 

[Day elapsed: 4]

 

Question again proposed: That this House -

 

TAKING NOTE of the massive food, drugs, foreign currency and energy shortages;

 

CONCERNED with the continued unabated collapse of the public amenities in health, transport and education;

 

DISMAYED at the lack of any concrete, meaningful and decisive reversal programme by government;

 

DISTURBED by the shrinking economy and failing state particularly in areas of service provision;

 

RESOLVES that the government immediately addresses the critical shortages of shortages of food energy and public sector amenities;

 

CONDEMNS the absence of existing comprehensive monetary and fiscal reversal strategy;

 

FURTHER CONDEMNS the clear lack of strategy and leadership on the part of this Government – Mr Biti

 

On the motion of the Minister of Agriculture: Debate adjourned until tomorrow.

 

 

5. On the motion of the Minister of Agriculture: The House adjourned at a quarter past five o’clock p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

J.L. NKOMO

Speaker.

 

 

THURSDAY, 21^ST JULY 2005

 

ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

1. SECOND READING: General Laws Amendment Bill (H.B. 5, 2005)-The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs 

 

2. SECOND READING: Attorney-General’s Office Bill (H.B. 4, 2005)-The 

Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs

 

3. Adjourned debate on motion in reply to the Presidential Speech (adjourned 19^th July 2005 – The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs)

 

[Time elapsed: 5 hours 41minutes]

 

 

Question proposed:  That a respectful address be presented to the President of Zimbabwe as follows-

 

May it please you, Your Excellency, the President:

 

 

We, the Members of Parliament of Zimbabwe, desire to express our loyalty to Zimbabwe and beg leave to offer our respectful thanks for the Speech, which you have been pleased to address to Parliament- Mr Mzembi

 

4. Adjourned debate on motion on the Report of the delegation to the 2005

Mauritius Elections (Adjourned 20^th July –The Minister Agriculture)

Day elapsed:4]

 

Question proposed: That this House takes note of the Report of the delegation to the SADC Parliamentary Forum Observation Mission to the 2005 Mauritius Parliamentary Elections held on 3^rd July 2005 – Mr J.M Gumbo.

 

5. Adjourned debate on motion on the shortage of food, drugs, foreign currency and energy (Adjourned 20^th July 2005  - The Minister of Agriculture)

 

[Days elapsed: 4]

 

TAKING NOTE of the massive food, drugs, foreign currency and energy shortages;

 

CONCERNED with the continued unabated collapse of the public amenities in health, transport and education;

 

DISMAYED at the lack of any concrete, meaningful and decisive reversal programme by government;

 

DISTURBED by the shrinking economy and failing state particularly in areas of service provision;

 

RESOLVES that the government immediately addresses the critical shortages of shortages of food energy and public sector amenities;

 

CONDEMNS the absence of existing comprehensive monetary and fiscal reversal strategy;

 

FURTHER CONDEMNS the clear lack of strategy and leadership on the part of this Government – Mr Biti  

 

6. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 27^TH JULY 2005

 

 

QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWERS

 

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

 

*QUESTIONS WITH NOTICE

 

*1. MR. SIKHALA:  To ask The Minister of Finance to enlighten the House on the source of the Productive Sector Investment Facility and to name the accounting organs/institutions of those funds.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]

 

*2 Mrs Stevenson: To ask the Minister of Finance how the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will source the $5 trillion promised to the agricultural sector in his monetary policy review in May, in view of the fact that this was not provided for in the 2005 Budget

 

*3 MR  SIKHALA: To ask the Minister Mines and Mining Development to inform the House on why a South African based company owned by a Jewish family, J. G. Petrow has been given the exclusive rights to market our asbestos when the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe is responsible for marketing all minerals.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]

 

*4 MR. GWETU:  To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development to report to this House the progress on the Zambezi Water Project particularly the Gwayi/Shangani phase.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th  July 2005]

 

*5 MR. MUSA: To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development when Chipara Dam on the Mudzi river is going to be constructed.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]

 

*6 Mr Malinga: To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural

Development to inform the House when the  construction of the Sambongolo Dam in the Msokeli Ward of Silobela Constituency will commence since it has been on  the cards for more than five years now.

 

*7    Mr Bhebhe: To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development why the construction of Ziminya Dam in Nkayi has not taken off despite the fact that $2.64 billion was allocated in the 2005 budget.

 

*8	Mr Mushore: To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development to state when the Silver Stream dam on the Musengezi River will be constructed to enable the people of Muzarabani Constituency to benefit from it.
*9	Mr Mushore: To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development to state when the Musingwa and Hoya bridges, which were washed away, will be repaired.
*10 Mr Mushore: To ask the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural

Development to state when the drilling of boreholes, in the lower part of Muzarabani can be expected considering that the people are in dire need of the provision of portable water.

 

*11 MR. MUSA: To ask the Minister of Transport and Communication when  the Mtoko-Rwenya road is going to be surfaced and why it has taken such a  long time.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]

 

*12    MR. MUSA :To ask the Minister of Transport and Communication why the               Rwenya-Nyamapanda road has not been maintained for some time.

 

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]

*13 Mr. Malinga:  To ask the Minister of Transport and Communication to explain whether the ministry is considering reintroducing call boxes in both rural and urban areas considering that there has been a proliferation of phone shops and the high cost of making calls from these shops.

 

*14 Mr. Malinga: To ask the Minister of Transport and Communication to state:

 

• the subscriber capacity of each of the three mobile networks in the country

 

• the current number of subscribers on each of the three mobile networks and comment on whether some of the networks are not oversubscribed.

 

*15 Mrs Stevenson: to ask the Minister of Transport and Communications to explain:

 

• why internet connections through ComOne are so much slower than through other service providers.

 

• what measures, if any, are being taken to improve the speed.

 

*16 Mr Mushore: To ask the Minister of Transport and Communication to state:

 

when the people of Muzarabani Constituency can expect television and radio coverage and mobile telephone network in view of the fact that a booster was requested for a long time ago.

 

*17 MR. BALOYI:  To ask the Minister of Energy and Power Development if he is aware that the fuel shortage has severely cut off the supply of food stuffs to remote areas like Chikombedzi, Malapoli, Dhavhata and Gezani areas in Chiredzi South and to explain to the House how the ministry intends to assist in ensuring that the plight of the people in those areas is alleviated.

[Transferred from 13^th July 2005]

 

*18 PROF J. MOYO: To ask the Minister of Energy and Power Development to explain what the Government is doing to improve the availability of fuel given that the recent price adjustments have not resulted in an improvement of the situation.

[Deferred from Wednesday 13^th July 2005]

 

*19 PROF J MOYO : To ask the Minister of Industry and International Trade to give reasons for the critical shortage of basic commodities  and explain what the ministry is doing to ensure their availability.

[Deferred from Wednesday 13^th July 2005]

 

*20 PROF J MOYO : To ask the Minister of Industry and International Trade to explain;

• the shortage of local brands of beer when more expensive foreign brands such as Heinken and Windhoek Lager imported using scarce foreign currency are available in most of the retail outlets.
• what the ministry is doing to alleviate the shortage ahead of the coming summer season

[Deferred from Wednesday 13^th July 2005]

 

*21 PROF J MOYO to ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs to;

• explain Zimbabwe’s policy position regarding the two African countries that should be permanent members of the United Nations Security Council as part of the proposed reform of the world body.
• inform the House on the criteria used by Government to arrive at the said policy position and choice of countries.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]

 

*22 MR. BALOYI: To ask the Minister of State for National Security, Lands, Land

Reform and Resettlement in the President’s Office what is the Ministry doing to assist A2 Sugarcane farmers in Chiredzi who have not been paid for the sugar delivered to the miller because the former white farmers are contesting both the land and crop

[Deferred from Wednesday 13^th July 2005]

 

*23 MR  MADZIMURE : To ask the Minister of Education, Sport and Culture to explain:

 

• why the construction of the “A” level block at Kambuzuma High 1 has been stalled for the past three years.

 

• when completion of the project is expected and what the ministry is doing to ensure this.

[Deferred from Wednesday 20^th July 2005]     *24 Mr Mushore: To ask the Minister of Education, Sports and Culture to explain when the construction of five schools, currently built of pole and mud and thatched with grass will take place since it is two years now after the schools were registered with the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture.

 

 

*25  Mr. Malinga: To ask the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare to provide this House with:

 

• the number of tonnes of maize that have been delivered to Silobela Constituency since March 2005.

 

• the names of the wards and state the number of families that have benefited from the Government food aid programme.

 

• state the official selling price per bag of maize.

 

*26 Mr Chibaya to ask the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare to explain:

 

• whether the ministry is considering adjustments to salaries of most of the workers given that most of salaries are now below the poverty datum line.
• why the minimum wage for farm workers has not been gazetted.

 

*27 Mrs. Stevenson: To ask the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises Development to give statistics of how many people were operating in the informal sector in 2004.

 

*28 Mr  Mungofa: To ask the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development Housing to:

 

• state the acrerage of land the Harare City Council has acquired for allocation to registered Housing Cooperatives.

 

• state the share of Harare Province obtainable from the allocated 3 million dollars earmarked to built new houses for families displaced by Operation Murambatsvina.

 

• state the number of stands that will be given to the affected families considering that Harare has had over 100 000 people without shelter.

 

• explain why the government is claiming to have started building new houses where the land has not been serviced.

 

*29  Mr Chimbaira: To ask the Minister of Local Government and Public Works and Urban Development to state:

 

• the form of assistance being given, if any, to the owners of at least 40 homes destroyed in Unit E, in Zengeza Constituency during Operation Murambatsvina.

 

• why the homes built on a piece of land in Unit E, bought by the South African Government in 1960 for the Apostolic Sect members who are currently occupying the piece of land, were destroyed.

 

• the number of civilians and police officers killed during Operation Murambatsvina.

 

*30   Mr Mutsekwa: To ask the Minister of Home Affairs to:

 

• confirm reports that officers of the Zimbabwe Republic Police from

Mutare Central denied desperate motorists access to fuel at the Automotive

Precision Engineers Service Station on Thursday, 7 May 2005, at about 1430 hours because they wanted to re-fuel drums and twenty litre containers for themselves first, so that they could re-sale it on the black market.

 

• confirm if it is true that on the day in question, out of a delivery of 6 000 litres of fuel, only less than twenty vehicles from the public got fuel whilst the remainder was bought by the police officers for re-sale on the black market.

 

• confirm that the same police officers threatened to let police dogs loose on the forecourt manager if they were denied access to the fuel.

 

• explain if any disciplinary action is being taken against the officers and to produce proof of such action/investigation.

 

*31 Mr Bhebhe: To ask the Minister of Home Affairs to explain:

 

• why police in Nkayi treat notices to hold meetings in the constituencies as applications for permission to hold meetings.

 

• whether, according to the provision of POSA, it is a valid reason to prohibit any meeting because the police have no manpower to cover the proceedings.

 

*32 Prof. J. Moyo: To ask the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to explain:

 

• whether ZANU PF officials have a right to oversee and supervise government institutions given widespread reports of incidents where party officials, especially at district and provincial levels, have claimed to have the right to supervise institutions such as the Grain Marketing Board and Agricultural Rural Development Agency.

 

• the legal basis for party officials to supervise and direct government institutions.

 

*33 Mr Mushore: To ask the Minister of Health and Child Welfare to explain:

 

• the delay in the construction of more clinics in the new resettlement areas between Muzarabani and Mozambique as the people in the areas are suffering from malaria.

 

• measures the ministry is taking to address the shortage of nurses and medicine in clinics in Muzarabani Constituency.

 

 

 

BILLS UNDER CONSIDERATION BY THE PARLIAMENTARY LEGAL COMMITTEE

 

1. Labour Amendment Bill (H.B. 1, 2005)- The Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare (Referred 22^nd June, 2005).

 

 

2. Education Amendment Bill (H.B. 6, 2005)- The Minister of Education, Sport and Culture (Referred 22^nd June, 2005).

 

3. Harare Institute of Technology Bill (B. 24A, 2004) – The Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education. (Referred 7^th July, 2005).

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS  Thursday, 21^st July 2005 At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 1

 

JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS: Mr. Chipanga

(Chairperson), Chief Bidi, Mr Chidarikire, Mr. Coltart, Mr. Gumbo J. M, Mrs. Machirori, Mr. Malinga, Mr. Madzimure, Chief Malisa, Mr. Matutu, Mrs. Misihairabwi- Mushonga, Chief Mudzimurema. Clerk – Ms Macheza

 

Monday, 25^th July 2005

 

At 0945 hours in Committee RoomNo. 1

 

TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION: Mr. Mugabe L (Chairperson), Mr.

Chimbaira, Mr. Chikomba, Mrs. Machirori, Mr. Mdlongwa, Mr. Mubawu, Mr. Ncube

1. M, Mrs. Nyauchi, Mr. Porusingazi, Ms. Pote, Mr. Sikhala, Mr. Ziyambi, Mr Zwizwai, Clerk – Mrs Nyawo

 

 

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 1

 

 

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS: Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga (Chairperson),  Chief Charumbira,. Mr. Chamisa, Chief Chimombe, Mr. Kadzima, Mr. Matimba, Mrs. Misihairabwi-Mushonga, Mr. Moyo L, Mr Mupukuta, Mr Musa, Mr. Ncube F D., Ms. Satiya,  Mrs. Stevenson. Clerk – Mr Daniel

 

At 1400 hours in the Conference Room

 

BUDGET, FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Mr. Butau

(Chairperson), Chief Bidi, Mr. Biti,  Mr. Bhebhe, Chief Charumbira, Mr Kanzama Ms. Khupe, Mr.Majange, Mr. Mashakada,   Mr. Mushoriwa,  Mr.Mzembi, Mr. Ncube D.M. Clerk – Mrs Khumalo

 

Tuesday, 26^th July 2005

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 2

 

MINES, ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM: Mr Gabbuza (Chairperson), Mr. Butau, Mr. Chandengenda, Chief Dandawa, Mrs. Katsande, Mr. Machaya, Col.

Makova, Mr. Mungofa, Mr. Mushore, Mr. Ndlovu M, Mr. Sansole,  Mr. Sibindi. Clerk – Mr Ndlovu

 

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 3

 

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INDUSTRY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Mr.

Porusingazi (Chairperson), Mr. Gumbo J. M., Mr. Gwetu, Chief Mabika, Mrs.

Mawere, Mr.  Mugabe, Mr. Mukahlera, Mr. Mushoriwa, Mr. Mutomba, Mrs. Mpariwa, Mr. Ndlovu, , Chief Shana. Clerk – Mr Ratsakatika

 

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 1

 

DEFENCE, HOME AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL SECURITY: Col. Makova

(Chairperson), Mr. Chamisa, Mr. Chipanga, Mrs. Dausi-Gwachiwa, Mr. Kadzima,

Ms. Khupe, Mr. Madzimure, Mr. Makova. Chief Malaba, Mr. Mutomba, Mr.  Mutsekwa, Prof.  Ncube W., Mrs. Zinyemba Clerk – Mr Mubaiwa

 

 

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 2

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Mrs. Zinyemba, (Chairperson), Chief Charumbira, Mr.

Chidarikire, Mr. Chimanikire, Mr. Gonese, Mr. Machaya, Mr. Majange, Chief

Malaba, Mr. Matimba, Mr. Mubawu,  Mr. Mutsekwa, Mrs. Stevenson, Mr. Ziyambi,

Clerk – Mrs Sunga

 

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 4

 

 

LANDS, LANDS REFORM, RESETTLEMENT AND AGRICULTURE: Mr.

Mzembi (Chairperson), Chief. Bushu, Chief. Chimombe, Mr. Gabbuza, Mrs. Katsande, Ms. Khumalo, Mrs. Mahofa, Mr. Mguni, Mr. Mkhosi,   Mr. Mugabe,  , Mr. Pote , Mr. Shoko. Clerk – Mr Ndlovu

 

At 0945 hours in the Conference Room

 

PUBLIC SERVICE, LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE: Mrs. Mawere

(Chairperson), Mr. Baloyi, Chief Charumbira, Mr. Chibaya, Mr. Gwetu, Mr. Kangai,  Mr. Maluleke, Mr. Matutu, Mrs Maziriri, Ms. Mpariwa , Mr. Mushore, Mr. Shoko. Clerk- Mrs Muganhiri - Muwandi

 

At 1000 hours in Caucus Room

 

HEALTH AND CHILD WELFARE: Mr. Chebundo (Chairperson), Mr.

Chandengenda, Mr. Chindori-Chininga, Mr. Chipanga, Mr. Kangai, Ms. Khumalo, Chief Mabika, Mr. Madubeko, Mr. Madzore, Mr. Mupukuta , Mrs. Nyauchi, Mr. Sansole, Mr. Zwizwai. Clerk – Ms Mukono

 

Thursday, 28^th July 2005

At 1000 hours in Committee Room No. 4

 

EDUCATION, SPORT AND CULTURE: Mr. Mhashu  (Chairperson),  Mr. Baloyi, Mr. Madubeko, Chief  Malisa,  Mr. Maluleke, Mrs. Matamisa, Mrs. Maziriri, Mr.

Mguni, , Mr. Moyo L, Mr. Mupukuta , Ms. Pote , Mr. Sibindi. Clerk – Mrs Sunga

 

 

YOUTH, GENDER AND WOMEN’S AFFAIRS: Mrs. Mahofa (Chairperson), Chief Bushu, Mr. Chikomba, Mr. Chebundo, Mr. Chibaya,  Chief Dandawa, Mr

Kanzama,   Mr. Madzore, Mrs. Matamisa, Ms. Mugabe,  Mr. Mukahlera, Mrs. Satiya,