As Chombo Seeks Protection From Supreme Court For His Powers

But, say analysts, Chombo won't get away with this one, and the Nutty Professor might be made to pay, even by his own Zanu (PF) collegues, for saying that he did not attend because debate in the Parliament of Zimbabwe was too immature to warrant his attention.

Magwegwe MP Felix (Mafa) Magalela Sibanda yesterday vowed to press ahead with a motion calling for Tsholotsho North MP Jonathan Moyo’s expulsion from Parliament for boycotting the majority of the House of Assembly sessions.

Moyo early this month said he would continue the boycott after a daily newspaper NewsDay’s investigations revealed that the motor-mouth MP who was elected as an independent and opportunistically crossed the floor to join Zanu PF, was absent for 31 of the 32 sittings.

Associated Press reports that Zimbabwean National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has now found evidence of pangolin poaching in Zimbabwe.

Pangolions are valued by the Chinese for their meat and their scales, but in traditional Zimbabwean society they considered meat for the chiefs, though they have since been protected and Zimbabweans are no longer eating them.

But now the Chinese have come in, as they have already done in every other facet of the Zimbabwean economy - from buying cotton from desperate small-scale farmers at low prices, to building hotels on protected sites and fueling rhino poaching.