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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTES 21_JUNE_2005_NO._3

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No. 3

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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TUESDAY, 21^ST JUNE, 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

Misihairabwi-Mushonga P

Khupe T

Mpariwa P

 

 

 

 

 

 

Printed by Order of the House

 

 

 

 

1. Member sworn-

Mkhosi Moyo Edward Tshotsho

 

2. Papers laid upon the Table-

 

The Speaker

 

Sixth Edition of the Standing Orders of the Parliament of Zimbabwe: 2005

 

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development

 

Tobacco Research Board Annual Report for the year ended 30^th June 2004 and Accounts for the year ended 31^st December 2003 [by Chapter 22:03].

 

            The Acting Minister of Finance and Economic Development

 

State in Terms of the State Loans and Guarantees Act [by Chapter 22:13].

 

Establishment of the land Administration fund [by Chapter 22:03].

 

Amendment of Agriculture Revolving fund [by Chapter 22.03].

 

Establishment of the Children on the Streets Fund [by Chapter22:03].

 

            The Minister of Finance

 

Government Guarantee for the Euro 55 Million-Iran Line of Credit to Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe [by Chapter22:13].

 

Statement to Parliament in terms of Section 18 of the State Loans and Guarantees Act [by Chapter 22:13].

 

The Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development

 

The Rural Capital Development Fund (RCDF) 2004 Annual Report and Projects Approved for funding in 2005:  Ministry of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development.

 

The Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare

 

A Submission to competent authority (Parliament) of International Labour Conference (ILC) new instrument adopted in June 2004 – Recommendation 195, Human Resources Development:  Education, Training and Lifelong.

 

NSSA Annual Report for the year ending 2003 [by Chapter 22:03].

 

The Minister of Industry and International Trade

 

Competition and Tariff Commission Annual Report for 2003.

 

            The Minister of Post and Telecommunications

 

The People’s Own Savings Bank Financial Report for the year ended 31^st December 2003.

 

3. Committee appointed-

 

Standing Rules and Orders Committee:

             

Hon. D. C. Gwachiwa; Hon. T Khupe; Hon. J. M. K. Machaya; Hon. S. B. Mahofa; Hon. P. Misihairabwi-Mushonga; Hon. D. N. E. Mutasa; Hon. A. Ncube; Hon. Prof. W. Ncube and Hon. M. Zinyemba to serve with Honourable Members appointed by the Speaker on 9 June 2005.

 

4. The Speaker informed the House that the presentation of Bills would not be done as the Parliamentary Legal Committee had not yet been constituted.

 

 

5. Mr Mzembi, seconded by Mrs Zinyemba, moved: 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.

 

On the motion of the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs:  Debate adjourned until tomorrow.

 

6. On the motion of the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs the House adjourned at fourteen minutes to three o’clock p.m. until tomorrow.

 

 

 

1. L. NKOMO,

Speaker.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 22^ND JUNE 2005

 

QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWERS

 

 

 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

 

 

*     QUESTIONS WITH NOTICE

1. MRS L. G. B. STEVENSON:     To ask the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing to:

 

1. provide the House with the minutes of the meeting held by the Commission running

Harare during which it resolved to implement “Operation Murambatsvina”;

 

1. explain why alternative housing factory shells and market stalls were not constructed before destroying people’s homes and livelihoods;

 

1. explain why vendors with valid licences trading at authorized market places erected by the City of Harare using ratepayers’ money were arrested and their goods confiscated;

 

1. inform the House the number of people who have been removed from their so-called illegal houses and where those people are now living;

 

1. inform the House whether stands at Hatcliffe Extension site-and-service scheme funded by the World Bank will be reallocated, the criteria that would be used for selection of the new beneficiaries, or whether the scheme would be used for a purpose other than low-cost housing.

 

 

NOTICE OF PRESENTATION OF BILLS

 

1. THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE, LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE: Bill to amend the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01], to repeal section 56 of the Export Processing Zones Act [Chapter 14:07], and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto - Labour Amendment Bill (H.B. 1, 2005).

 

2. THE MINISTER OF FINANCE: Bill to amend the Banking Act [Chapter 24:20]- Banking Amendment Bill (H.B. 3, 2005).

 

3. THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS: Bill to constitute the Attorney-General’s Office; establish the Attorney-General’s Office Board and to provide for its functions; to provide for its administration and the conditions of service of members of the Attorney-General’s Office; to provide for the transfer of persons from the Public Service to the Attorney-General’s Office; to make

consequential amendments to various acts; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing - Attorney-General’s Office Bill (H.B. 4, 2005).

 

4. THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS: Bill to amend the

Maintenance Act [Chapter 5:09], section 4 of the Judges Salaries, Allowances and

Pensions Act [Chapter 7:08], sections 13 and 14 of the Judicial College Act [Chapter 7:17], the Service of Documents (Telegraph)Act [Chapter 8:13], sections 6 and 7 of the Miscellaneous Offences Act [Chapter 9:15], section 63 of the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act [Chapter 9:17], section 9 of the Stock Theft Act [chapter 9:18], section 10 of the Betting and Totalizator Control Act [Chapter10:02], section 5 of the Pools Control Act [Chapter 10:19], section 6 of the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act [Chapter 10:20], section 5 of the Lotteries and Gaming

Act [Chapter 10:26], the Defence act [Chapter 11:02], sections 2 and 30 of the War Victims Compensation Act [Chapter 11:17] (Act No. 1 of 2002), sections 98 and 103 of the Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05] (Act No. 4 of 2000), section 4 pf the Copper Control Act [Chapter 14:06], the Electricity Act [Chapter 13:19] (Act No. 4 of 2002), section 1 of the Rural Electrification act [Chapter 13:20]

(Act No. 3 of 2002), section 3 of the Money lending and Rates of Interest Act

[Chapter 14:14], section 4 of the Second-hand goods Act [Chapter 14:16], the Water

Act [Chapter 20:24] (Act No. 31 of 1998), the Environmental Management Act

[Chapter 20:27] (Act No. 11 of 2002), section 6 of Exchange Control act [Chapter

22:05], section 14 of the Procurement Control Act [Chapter 22:14] (Act No. 2 of

1999), the Boxing and Wrestling Control Act [Chapter 25:02], and sections 193 and

196 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15]; and to update cross-references to the

Children’s Act [Chapter 5:06] in certain Acts – General Laws Amendment Bill (H.B.

5, 2005).

 

5. THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, SPORT AND CULTURE: Bill to amend the Education Act [Chapter 25:04] and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto- Education Amendment Bill (H.B. 6, 2005).

 

6. THE MINISTER OF HIGHER AND TERTIARY EDUCATION: Bill to establish the Harare Institute of Technology as a degree-granting institution; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto – Harare Institute of Technology Bill (H.B.

24, 2004).

 

ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

1. Adjourned debate on motion in reply to the Presidential Speech (adjourned 21^st June - The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs).

 

[Time elapsed: 22 minutes]

 

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

 

2. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.