March 2018

CCZ 2018-02 GREATERMANS STORES AND ANOR v MINISTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE, LABOUR & SOCIAL WELFARE CCZ 86-15

(1) GREATERMANS STORES (1979) (PRIVATE) LIMITED t/a THOMAS MEIKLES STORES

(2) MEIKLES HOSPITALITY (PRIVATE) LIMITED

(1) THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE, LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE

(2) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF ZIMBABWE

Bill Watch Parliamentary Committees Series 11-2018 Public Hearings on Companies & Other Business Entities Bill

BILL WATCH

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES 11/2018

[28th March 2017]

Public Hearings on the Companies and Other Business Entities Bill

Wednesday 4th to Monday 9th April

Companies and Other Business Entities Bill - Memorandum

This Bill was not dealt with by the Eighth Parliament before its dissolution on 29^th July 2018. It has since been replaced by a new Bill of the same name but numbered H.B.

Court Watch 1-2018 Presidential Clemency Order

COURT WATCH 1/2018

[26th March 2018]

Presidential Clemency Order : Commutation of Death Sentences

Reduction of Other Sentences

Clemency for Certain Death Row Prisoners

Commissions Watch 27th March ZHRC Press Statement on Doctors' Strike

COMMISSIONS WATCH

ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

[26^th March 2018]

Press Statement by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission on the Doctors Strike

Abuja Declaration

AFRICAN SUMMIT ON HIV/AIDS,

TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER

RELATED INFECTIOUS DISEASES

ABUJA, NIGERIA 24-27 APRIL 2001 OAU/SPS/ABUJA/3

ABUJA DECLARATION ON HIV/AIDS,

TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER RELATED INFECTIOUS

DISEASES

We, the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of

CCZ 2017-03 Chawira & 13 Ors v Min of Justice & 2 Ors

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF ZIMBABWE

MALABA DCJ, ZIY AMBI JCC, GWAUNZA JCC,

GARWE JCC, GOWORA JCC, HLATSHWAYO JCC,

PATEL JCC, BHUNU JCC & UCHENA JCC

HARARE, January 13, 2016 & MARCH 20,2017

T. Biti, for the applicants

0. Zvedi, for the respondents

Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act Amendment Bill 2018

To amend the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001.

ZIMBABWE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT OF 2001

To provide for a transition to democracy and to promote economic recovery in Zimbabwe.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

GN 2018 - 164 Clemency Order 1-2018

President Commutes Death Sentences to Life Imprisonment for Those on Death Row for 10 years and More

Clemency Order No. 1 of 2018 [link], signed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 10^th March 2018, includes the following paragraph:

“Commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment

Civil Aviation Amendment Bill -Portfolio Committee Report - 22 March 2018

In the National Assembly, 22nd March 2018

REPORT ON CIVIL AVIATION AMENDMENT BILL
BY
PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT & INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT

Presented by Hon Chitindi, chairperson of the Committee

Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill - Portfolio Committee Report to National Assembly 8 March 2018

In the National Assembly, 8th March 2018

REPORT ON MINES & MINERALS AMENDMENT BILL
BY
PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON MINES AND ENERGY

Presented by Hon Mliswa, current chairperson of the Committee

Portfolio Committee Report on ERC Petition for Electoral Reform - 20 March 2018

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Bill Watch 7 - 2018 In Parliament This Week: Gazetting of Two Acts & Two Bills

BILL WATCH 7/2018

[20th March 2018]

Both Houses will be Sitting This Week

Finance Act and Appropriation (2018) Act Gazetted

The following Acts were gazetted in a Government Gazette Extraordinary on Wednesday 14^th March [see General Notice 158A/2018]. They are the first Acts of 2018. Both came into force immediately:

Bill Watch Parliamentary Committees Series 10-2018

BILL WATCH

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES 10/2018

[20th March 2017]

Public Hearings on the ZISCO (Debt Assumption) Bill

Monday 26th to Thursday 29th March

SI 2018-037 Legal Practitioners (Code of Conduct) By laws

Legal Practitioners (Code of Conduct) By-laws, 2018

IT is hereby notified that the Minister of Justice. Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has, in terms of section 63 of the Legal Practitioners Act [Chapter 27:07], approved the by-laws set out in the Schedule, which were adopted by a majority of members present at a general meeting of the Law Society of Zimbabwe.

Schedule

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (CODE OF CONDUCT) BY-LAWS. 2018

Amendments to Indigenisation & Economic Empowerment Act - from Finance Act of 14 March 2018

14 MARCH 2018 AMENDMENTS TO ZIMBABWE’S

INDIGENISATION AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ACT

The Finance Act, 2018 (No. 1 of 2018), was published as law in the Zimbabwean Government Gazette Extraordinary dated 14th March 2018.

Section 42 of this 46-page Act makes major amendments to the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act with effect from 14th March 2018.

Bill Watch 6 - 2018 Indigenisation Act Amendments: Part 2

BILL WATCH 6/2018

[19th March 2018]

Indigenisation Act Amendments: Part 2

This bulletin supplements Bill Watch 5/2018 dated 17th March [“Indigenisation Act Amendments Now Law”].

Apology

Election Watch 3-2018 - Ward Boundaries - Presidential Proclamation Usurps ZEC's Function

ELECTION WATCH 3/2018

[18th March 2018]

Council Elections: President’s Proclamation of New Beitbridge Municipality

Usurps ZEC’s Functions

Unless ZEC acts to rectify the situation, people in Beitbridge will not be able to vote for councillors to represent them. And Beitbridge is not the only place that will have this problem.

Bill Watch 5-2018 - Indigenisation Act Amendments Now Law

BILL WATCH 5/2018

[17th March 2018]

Indigenisation Act Amendments Are Now Law

It was expected that amendments to the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act would have been made in Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Amendment Bill.

Instead they were tucked away in the annual Finance Act, which deals mainly with taxation and as usual was passed by Parliament with little debate.

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