{"id":15274,"date":"2019-10-27T19:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=15274"},"modified":"2019-10-27T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T17:14:34","slug":"mliswa-chides-govt-for-wasting-money-on-american-pr-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-chides-govt-for-wasting-money-on-american-pr-firms","title":{"rendered":"Mliswa Chides Govt For Wasting Money On American PR Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Member_of_Parliament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Member Of Parliament<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for Norton Constituency,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Temba_Mliswa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Temba Mliswa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Independent), says the government of Zimbabwe should not continue wasting millions of dollars on useless lobbying firms in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Mliswa made the remarks in Parliament last week where he argued that the money being given to the Public Relations firms should be channelled towards the provision of health to citizens. He said:<\/p>\n<p>They have embassies here but the government has spent US$2 million hiring a PR person in America to network with embassies instead of us putting that money into very important sectors and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>We have hospitals which do not have medicines, no proper bedding and where nurses are not well remunerated but we are paying a PR person to go and convince the Americans that the sanctions must go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken\u00a0Member Of Parliament\u00a0for Norton Constituency,\u00a0Temba Mliswa\u00a0(Independent), says the government of Zimbabwe should not continue wasting millions of dollars on useless lobbying firms in the United States of America. Mliswa made the remarks in Parliament last week where he argued that the money being given to the Public Relations firms should be channelled towards the provision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[800,1030,761],"class_list":{"0":"post-15274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-government-of-zimbabwe","10":"tag-member-of-parliament","11":"tag-mliswa"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mliswa Chides Govt For Wasting Money On American PR Firms - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Outspoken\u00a0Member Of Parliament\u00a0for Norton Constituency,\u00a0Temba Mliswa\u00a0(Independent), says the government of Zimbabwe should\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-chides-govt-for-wasting-money-on-american-pr-firms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mliswa Chides Govt For Wasting Money On American PR Firms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Outspoken\u00a0Member Of Parliament\u00a0for Norton Constituency,\u00a0Temba Mliswa\u00a0(Independent), says the government of Zimbabwe should\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-chides-govt-for-wasting-money-on-american-pr-firms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-27T17:14:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/04\/Temba-Mliswa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"676\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-chides-govt-for-wasting-money-on-american-pr-firms\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-chides-govt-for-wasting-money-on-american-pr-firms\",\"name\":\"Mliswa Chides Govt For Wasting Money On American PR Firms - 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