31st July to be a solemn day to never again allow rigged elections

Today Mugabe and Zanu PF are celebrating marking the day, a year ago, they rigged the elections. This nation owes it to itself and posterity to thoroughly investigate how the elections were rigged and...

Jonathan Moyo poll appeal: Supreme Court reserves judgement

The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in an election court appeal by Professor Jonathan Moyo.Professor Moyo was challenging the election of Rosemary Nkomo as the legislator for Tsholot...

ZEC probe opens can of worms

The ongoing police investigations of serious fraud at the Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) involving abuse of equipment, election budget materials and missing fuel coupons have opened a Pandora'...

New report dismisses Zimbabwe's 2013 poll

A new report by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace Zimbabwe (CCJPZ) has strongly criticized the way last year's elections were conducted by the Mugabe regime, warning that electoral, media ...

Another Zimbabwe Elections director dies

Juba Chekenyere, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) director of administration, has died.He was 54.He is the fourth top official at the commission to pass on within the past three...

Zimbabwe paying dearly for rushed polls

In a fortnight, it will be one year to the day Zanu-PF claimed a two-thirds majority in elections.This time last year, President Robert Mugabe and his party were in a definite hurry for electi...

ZEC official Pamire dies

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's acting director for public relations Mr Tendayi Pamire has died.He was 46.Mr Pamire died early on Thursday at B.S Leon Medical Centre in Harare....

Tsvangirai's MDC to hold primary elections

THE MDC-T has said it will soon hold primary elections to elect new candidates in constituencies held by lawmakers who are members of the breakaway renewal team as fighting between the two factions e...

Child President election date set

ZIMBABWE Youth Council (ZYC), custodians of Junior Parliament, has announced June 20 as the date for the new junior presidential elections to be conducted at the Harare Institute of Technology....

'We rigged the elections,' says MDC-T MP

MDC-T Pumula MP Albert Mhlanga faces ouster for conducting outreach meetings to apologise to party members for being an ally of vice-president Thokozani Khupe and that they rigged the party's primary ...

Malawi elections, a testimony of firm institutions in Africa

The recently held elections in Malawi which were certified free, air and peaceful by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the rest of the international community provides Africa a...

'I'm ready to step down,' says Joyce Banda

Lilongwe - Malawian President Joyce Banda said on Thursday she is ready to step down if the High Court ratifies a disputed election last week and her opponent ends up as the winner, even though she s...

Malawi elections result blocked

Blantyre - An initial vote count in Malawi's controversial presidential elections has been completed but the result will not be released until court challenges to the disputed ballot have been resolve...

Mugabe to contest 2018 elections

A scramble to endorse President Robert Mugabe's candidacy for the 2018 national elections has strengthened views that Zanu-PF factions are trying to block each other from taking the lead in succeedin...

Mutharika takes early lead in Malawi presidential elections

Leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika ook an early lead in the Malawi presidential elections with about 25% of the votes counted by 7:30am local time on Wednesday....

Lessons from the 2014 South African Elections

The South African elections have come and are gone. Of-course the final results have not yet come out but already it seems clear that the election went in favour of ANC followed by DA and third pl...

Helen Zille raise concerns about SA elections

Pretoria - DA leader Helen Zille has raised concerns about the Electoral Commission of South Africa's handling of the 2014 elections.Speaking to News24 at the IEC's national results operations...

Zanu-PF to observe SA elections

The Zanu PF party has been invited to observe the elections to be held in South Africa on 7th May.In a statement, Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Rugare Gumbo, said the Zimbab...

ZEC unveils new voting system

Voters will cast their ballots at a particular polling station within their wards instead of voting at any centre in the same area, while those in the Diaspora will be allowed to register under a...

MDC-T to boycott future elections

The MDC-T says it will boycott any future by-elections on the pretext that it wants electoral laws amended before taking part in any polls.As per its custom, the MDC-T has abandoned partic...

MDC-T elections challenge suffers a setback at the Supreme Court

MDC-T losing candidate for the Mt Pleasant National Assembly seat Mr Jameson Timba has filed heads of argument in a Supreme Court case in which he is contesting the dismissal of his request for residu...

Nikuv: shocking 2018 vote claims

There are shocking claims that seven large containers, allegedly carrying materials which the opposition says is meant to manipulate and rig the crucial 2018 national elections, are on their way to Z...

By-election voters' roll contains dead people

MDC-T today said it has unearthed shocking irregularities on a voters' roll that will be used during a by-election to replace the Ward 12 councillor Enock Mavhondo who died early this year....

Fresh voters roll on cards

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), the country's electoral management body, has plans to compile a fresh voters' register, before the next poll.Justice Rita Makarau, the chairperson of ...

Tendai Biti in bizarre testimony

MDC-T secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti yesterday claimed that youths from West Africa were flown in to vote at a polling station in Mt Pleasant constituency during last year's harmonised election...

South Africa 2014 election date announced

Pretoria - The 2014 national elections will take place on 7 May, the presidency has announced.President Jacob Zuma made the announcement on Friday."After consulting with the IEC, I wou...

'We have never seen them since elections'

Tsholotsho villagers in Matabeleland North province say their Parliamentary elected leaders have deserted them."We have never seen them since the day we voted for them on July 31," says Tshol...

'Zim elections were neither free nor fair,' says Botswana's Ian Khama

Botswana President Seretse Khama Ian Khama says his country will not participate in future Sadc election observer missions as he claims that there were irregularities in Zimbabwe's polls last year. ...

Sadc, AU slammed over Zimbabwe polls

HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has blamed Sadc and the African Union (AU) for the continued human rights abuses and lack of improvement in governance issues in Zimbabwe after they endorsed the July 31 gene...

Lovemore Moyo withdraws poll petition

FORMER Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo, has withdrawn an electoral petition challenging his July 31 election loss to Zanu-PF's Never Khanye in the Matobo North National Assembly seat, Southern Ey...

Madhuku's NCA to contest by-elections

THE National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) tests the electoral waters on Saturday when they take part in by-elections.Three wards will be going to the polls to elect office bearers in council ...

Tsvangirai's MDC-T in fresh election call

Opposition Movement for Democratic Change-T's call for a fresh-snap-poll to resolve the country's deepening economic crisis has been met with scorn from the ruling Zanu-PF party.Following its ...

MDC fails to field candidates for by-elections

Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC has failed to field candidates in three local authority by-elections to be held in Harare, Karoi and Zaka on January 25.The by-elections are to fill seats ...

Election material destroyed says Tsvangirai

Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday made sensational claims alleging that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) had lost possession of the July 31 elections material which he said had ...

Moyo election petition today

THE Electoral Court is sitting in Bulawayo today to hear the election petition in which former Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo is challenging his defeat by Zanu-PF's Never Khanye in the Matobo No...

'Mugabe can contest 2018 elections'

PRESIDENT Mugabe is constitutionally free to represent Zanu-PF at the 2018 national elections, says Zanu PF chairman Didymus Mutasa.Mugabe will be 94 years old by then. Mutasa said Mugabe wou...

Zanu-PF provincial results trickle in

Results of the Zanu-PF provincial elections, which were held in seven provinces across the country, have been released.The Zanu-PF National Chairman, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo says the elec...

Zanu-PF Provincial Elections - Update

1503: The Zanu-PF Provincial election results for the seven provinces will be announced by party chairman Simon Khaya Moyo at 4 p.m today. This brings an end to our live updates but the results will b...

Zanu-PF's do-or-die weekend polls on cards

THE ZANU-PF commissariat is under pressure to ensure that weekend elections are conducted in a peaceful environment amid indications that the department could be restructured if it fails to pass the ...

MDC-T only left with nine electoral petitions

MDC-T is only left with nine electoral petitions before the Electoral Court out of the 39 it filed after the July 31 harmonised elections and this follows the withdrawal of most of the cases for lack ...

'ZEC chair can't be cited in poll petitions'

The Electoral Court has said that Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's chairperson cannot be cited as respondent in election petitions, with the court ruling that the litigation was not permissible at...

MDC-T losing parliamentary candidate thrown a lifespan

MDC-T Mudzi West losing parliamentary candidate Ushe Mennard Paradzayi has been thrown a lifespan after High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu ruled in his favour and referred his July 31 elect...

'We don't have to wait for 2018,' says Simba Makoni

SINCE his failed bid for the National Assembly in the harmonised elections, Simba Makoni (SM) (pictured), leader of Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn (MKD) political party, has not been in the limelight much. ...

Mugabe's seven steps to successful election rigging

MORE than 100 days after he "stole" his latest re-election, it is safe to say that president Robert Mugabe has gotten away with the crime. Other leaders in the region may be studying his methods, whic...

Zanu-PF splashed $100m to rig elections, claims Komichi

MDC-T chief election agent Morgen Komichi yesterday made sensational claims that Zanu PF splashed $100 million to rig the July 31 elections.Komichi, who is currently serving an 11-week commun...

MDC-T election petitions takes another knock

MDC-T election petitions continue to crumble, with the Electoral Court dismissing an application by the party's losing candidate for Mt Pleasant Mr Jameson Timba to have an electronic voters' roll whi...

Vote rigging plague Zanu-PF elections

IRREGULARITIES and allegations of vote-rigging once again plagued Zanu-PF elections in Mashonaland Central Province, raising the spectre of troubles that beset recent elections in Manicaland and the M...

Zanu-PF to hold seven provincial elections in one day

Zanu-PF has resolved to hold provincial executive elections in its seven remaining provinces simultaneously, in one day, to ensure a smooth process while President Mugabe chided some party leaders for...

Justice Chinembiri Bhunu denies ordering opening of ballot boxes

HIGH Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu yesterday denied ever signing any consent order granting losing MDC-T candidate for Mt Pleasant, Jameson Timba, access to open sealed ballot boxes and to ins...

ZEC opposes poll material opening

ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Rita Makarau has said MDC-T losing candidate for Mt Pleasant Mr Jameson Timba cannot be allowed to open or examine election material since doing so wo...