Parliamentary Portfolio Committee blocked from touring Hwange Colliery
A Zimbabwean Parliamentary Portfolio Committee was denied entry to the state-owned Hwange Colliery during an oversight visit. Management blocked the tour, citing a lack of prior notification, leading to frustration from committee members.
Why it matters
Underscores tensions regarding government oversight and transparency in state-owned enterprises in Zimbabwe.
A PARLIAMENTARY Portfolio Committee was recently turned away from Hwange Colliery Company Limited after management said it had not been notified about the visit.
The incident happened as the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development began a tour of mining and energy companies, with Hwange Colliery as its first stop.
Committee chair Remigious Matangira expressed frustration at being denied access to the state-owned mine.
“The majority shareholder is government, and we are government. But when government, which is us, is not allowed in its own house, what do you tell an outsider? I can’t, I have no words,” Matangira said.
“If your own refuses you, a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee, how do you expect an outsider to accept you?” he lamented.
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