In the months leading up to the conference pro-Mnangagwa activists whipped up support for the 2030 project within ZANU structures and the President made loyalist Jacob Mudenda the party's Secretary General in charge of proceedings at conference...
At the Mutare conference despite the bitter divisions the presidium – comprising Mnangagwa Chiwenga Vice-President Kembo Mohadi Muchinguri-Kashiri and Secretary General Jacob Mudenda – tried hard to project unity holding hands during the opening prayer...
His replacement Jacob Mudenda is the Speaker of the National Assembly and a reliable ally of the President...
On 30 May the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda appointed Sengezo Tshabangu as Leader of the Opposition in what many are calling the end of opposition politics in Zimbabwe's legislature...
On 3 October a letter was handed to the Parliamentary Speaker Jacob Mudenda (a ZANU-PF loyalist) recalling 20% (15 of 73) of the opposition MPs as they had 'seized' [sic] to be members of the party...
These 15 MPs elected to seats in Bulawayo and Matabeleland in the 23 August polls had been 'recalled' in a letter to the Speaker Jacob Mudenda from someone calling himself the 'interim Secretary-General of the CCC'...
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda says that Benjamin Rukanda the supposed leader of yet another opposition faction of questionable legitimacy wrote to him asking for the MPs' recall...
Investigations began amid much jostling and confusion and now Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has the Kasukuwere dossier...
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At the end a stunned Mugabe was instructed by Speaker Jacob Mudenda on the submission of MDC-T MP Nelson Chamisa to return for a question-and-answer session...
The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda and Parliamentary Clerk Austin Zvoma are both trying to muzzle backbench debate on the ‘Salarygate' scandal – that of huge salaries in the public sector – with threats of lifting parliamentary privilege on criminal defamation actions (AC Vol 55 No 6 State corruption complicates succession battles)...
That was followed by Speaker Jacob Mudenda inserting a new standing order under which MPs could not abuse parliamentary privilege by disclosing names and uncorroborated salary levels without having been cleared by himself...