Jacob Mudenda said engaged the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation to avail interpreters to provide interpretation services for all the languages recognised in the Zimbabwe Constitution
Parliament has since engaged Treasury to recruit more interpreters while engaging ZBC as it awaits the green light to employ. Mudenda said legislators are free to use a language of their choice in Parliament as provided for by Section 63 (a) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. Said Mudenda:
In view of the foregoing, it is thus regrettable that owing to resource constraints, Parliament is yet to employ interpreters to provide simultaneous interpretation for all the 16 officially recognised languages.In an effort to address the anomaly, Parliament has once again written to Treasury seeking concurrence to employ additional interpreters and the concurrence is still pending
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