{"id":16442,"date":"2019-12-07T19:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2019-12-07T19:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:52:56","slug":"mliswa-pleads-for-a-ban-in-the-carrying-of-machetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-pleads-for-a-ban-in-the-carrying-of-machetes","title":{"rendered":"Mliswa Pleads For A Ban In The Carrying Of Machetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Norton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Norton<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Member of Parliament\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Temba_Mliswa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Temba Mliswa,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Independent) has called for a ban on the carrying of machetes to end brutal killings perpetrated by machete gangs, also known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/MaShurugwi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MaShurugwi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing fellow parliamentarians on Thursday, Mliswa asked why the government is quick to issue Statutory Instruments on monetary issues while it drags its feet on banning machetes. He said:<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency has been very clear that people are being killed and there is no action being taken.<\/p>\n<p>Government is quick to issue Statutory Instruments (SIs) on monetary issues but when life is being lost, nothing is done. Why do we not ban that?<\/p>\n<div class=\"RS1zPtw9 amp-wp-1267f15\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norton\u00a0Member of Parliament\u00a0Temba Mliswa,\u00a0(Independent) has called for a ban on the carrying of machetes to end brutal killings perpetrated by machete gangs, also known as\u00a0MaShurugwi. Addressing fellow parliamentarians on Thursday, Mliswa asked why the government is quick to issue Statutory Instruments on monetary issues while it drags its feet on banning machetes. He said: His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[761,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-16442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-mliswa","10":"tag-thuggery"},"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 Pleads For A Ban In The Carrying Of Machetes - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Norton\u00a0Member of Parliament\u00a0Temba Mliswa,\u00a0(Independent) has called for a ban on the carrying of machetes to end brutal killings perpetrated by machete\" \/>\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-pleads-for-a-ban-in-the-carrying-of-machetes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mliswa Pleads For A Ban In The Carrying Of Machetes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Norton\u00a0Member of Parliament\u00a0Temba Mliswa,\u00a0(Independent) has called for a ban on the carrying of machetes to end brutal killings perpetrated by machete\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-pleads-for-a-ban-in-the-carrying-of-machetes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-07T17:52:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Temba-Mliswa.jpeg\" \/>\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-pleads-for-a-ban-in-the-carrying-of-machetes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mliswa-pleads-for-a-ban-in-the-carrying-of-machetes\",\"name\":\"Mliswa Pleads For A Ban In The Carrying Of Machetes - 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