BILL WATCH
PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES 18/2023
[12th June 2023]
Open Committee Meetings : Tuesday 13th June and Thursday 15th June
The committee meetings listed below for the week ending on Friday 16th June will be open to attendance by members of the public as observers only. Members of the public proposing to attend a physical meeting at Parliament should use the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue entrance to Parliament near Third Street and remember that IDs will be required to gain entry.
NOTE Some of the meetings are exclusively virtual/Zoom and some are hybrids of virtual/Zoom and physical meeting. There is an explanation later in this bulletin of how to attend a meeting virtually or on the Zoom platform.
Tuesday 13th June at 10.00 am
Portfolio Committee: Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Oral evidence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on issues raised in their 2022 Fourth Quarter Budget Performance Report.
Hybrid of Zoom and physical meeting.
Venue: Committee Room 4.
Thematic Committee: Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]
Oral evidence from the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development on efforts made to cushion the poor, vulnerable youths and women from poverty.
Zoom meeting.
Thursday 15th June at 10 am
Thematic Committee: Indigenisation and Empower
Oral evidence from the Minister of Industry and Commerce on the Status of the Economic Empowerment Bill
Zoom meeting.
Joint Portfolio Committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services and Thematic Committee
on Peace and Security
Oral evidence from the (1) Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, (2) Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation [ZBC] and (3) Zimpapers on the State of the Media during Elections.
Zoom meeting.
Portfolio Committee: Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation
Oral evidence from the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation on the measures taken to ensure the lifting of the FIFA ban on football.
Hybrid of Zoom and physical meeting
Venue: Committee Room No. 2.
How to Follow Virtual and Hybrid Open Meetings on the ZOOM Platform
Parliament has reverted to the practice of holding some committee meetings as virtual or hybrid of physical meetings.
For assistance in following the proceedings in virtual and hybrid open meetings on the ZOOM platform as observers, interested persons should contact the following for the meeting ID and passcode: Parliament’s Public Relations Office, Tel: +263 242 700181–6 or +263 242 252936–55.
Veritas will endeavour to notify the meeting IDs and passcodes on our social media platforms [see below].
