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Russian elections held in peaceful and conducive environment
The head of Zimbabwe’s electoral observer mission to the 2024 Russian presidential election Priscilla Chigumba says the Russo poll was held in "a peaceful and conducive environment" as well as run i...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 07:50hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gazettes new legislators
CCC interim secretary general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu and 13 others are expected to be sworn in as Senators and members of the National Assembly next week after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission confirme...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:47hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
By-elections ballot paper distribution begins today
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is now 100 percent ready to deliver seamless by-elections on Saturday, with the distribution of ballot papers set to start today.ZEC has printed 230 000 ballo...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:20hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives Chigumba 6 more years as ZEC chair
Justice Priscilla Chigumba was on Thursday re-appointed as Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson on a six-year contract set to take effect on February 1."I am pleased to advise that ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 13:41hrs | 846 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chigumba, Tshabangu, Judges targeted on new US sanctions list?
In a press statement released today, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared a new visa restriction policy aimed at individuals believed to be undermining democracy in Zimbabwe. The policy, ou...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 09:40hrs | 4998 | by Mandla Ndlovu
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
Ibbo Mandaza describes Zanu-PF's alleged election rigging machinery as smart
Political analyst Ibbo Mandaza has characterized Zanu-PF's alleged election rigging machinery as smart, after explaining how it concentrated less on its rural strongholds and more on Harare and Bulawa...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 2035 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa consolidated power and outwitted Zimbabwe military
WITH his controversial re-election -achieved with a minimal contribution from the military, and his subsequent swearing-in and cabinet appointments - President Emmerson Mnangagwa has all but completed...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 21:51hrs | 3825 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set for a power sharing deal after 'rigged' election?
Mildred Muchenje, a 26-year-old voter, had anticipated a straightforward experience as she approached her polling station in Warren Park, Harare, on August 23 to cast her vote in the Zimbabwean presid...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:58hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's crisis of an ineffective opposition and messiah politics
Late on Saturday night, I was sitting in a hotel room in Guangzhou, China, streaming the announcement of the results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans went to the polls on the 23rd of ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 15:05hrs | 830 | by Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi
The law cannot resolve Zimbabwe's political question
AS debate raged over the weekend on whether the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) should have gone to court in the matter of the sham election, l was and still remain unconvinced on what would have ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 210 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Soldiers voted against Mnangagwa?
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa lost at a polling station set up for soldiers from Pondoroza Barracks in Redcliff, Midlands province, during last week's elections, in a development that has laid ba...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
Colonial UK minister joins Zimbabwe poll criticism
The United Kingdom Minister for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell has said Zimbabwe's election results tallying lacked transparency.Zanu-PF presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa was d...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1193 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gazettes Mnangagwa's re-election
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has officially gazetted the re-election of President Mnangagwa for a second five-year term following his victory in last week's harmonised elections.An ...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
SADC and AU must resolve the Zimbabwean saga
The curtain has closed down and we are back again to those days where people are mentally and spiritually tortured by this other circulation of a disputed election.Emmerson Mnangagwa was decla...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 23:39hrs | 607 | by Leonard Koni
Blunders expose Zec, according to Mumba
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s false pronouncements before and after the elections have exposed the electoral body which now stands accused of misleading the nation.On August 18, fo...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth hails ZEC over elections?
THE Commonwealth Election Observer Mission yesterday hailed the way the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) managed the just ended harmonised elections and said the group's secretary general, Mrs Baro...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Why parallel vote tabulation becomes a problem
IT is not surprising but indeed disheartening that independent observers were arrested under charges that the police said would be revealed in court.When it served the interests of Zanu-PF, th...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:05hrs | 227 | by Rekai Rusinga
Faz, military tension is likely to rise
TENSION between Zanu-PF's restive group Forever Associate Zimbabwe (Faz) and the military is likely to rise after if Zanu-PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa forms the next government after Wednesday'...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:43hrs | 2147 | by Staff reporter
Council for Churches in Africa congratulates ED
The Council for Churches in Africa (CCA) has congratulated the President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa who was declared the winner of the August 23-24 presidential election by the Zimbabwe Electoral ...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 16:30hrs | 567 | by Simbarashe Sithole
CCC is a US puppet, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has accused the United States of interfering in Zimbabwe's political affairs, claiming that the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) is a puppet party bent on facilitating Zim...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa declares offensive to 'save' vote
DEFIANT opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has rejected the August 23 and 24 election results, which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa being declared the winner, sayin...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2236 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lashes out at CCC, observers
President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday lashed out at claims that the August 23 and 24 harmonised elections were rigged in his favour, challenging those who are not happy to take the matter to co...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
CCC to challenge Mnangagwa victory
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has rejected Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) adding it will advise citizens on next steps as the situation dev...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:52hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's (CCC) rejected the official results
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected to a second term, the African country's electoral commission said on Sunday. According to commission head Priscilla Chigumba, ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 07:55hrs | 1403 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa elected Zimbabwe President again
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe's presidential election again, according to the electoral commission.With all 10 provinces declared, Mr Mnangagwa won 52.6% of the votes, com...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 22:38hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe presidential election bombshell
A Bulawayo-based lawyers human rights organisation, Abammeli, and local attorney Nqobani Sithole have filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order for a compelling interdict against the Zim...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 19:24hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
'Voters roll mess to affect 1,8 million people'
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it has unearthed serious irregularities in the voters roll, which could result in about 1,8 million failing to vote in Wednesday elections.The reve...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rejected ZEC proposals
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba says the electoral management body's recommendations on the amendment of the Electoral Act to ensure the holding of credible polls we...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:59hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
ZEC to release ballot information today
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will release all the information relating to the printing and distribution of ballot papers by end of day today.This follows pressure from the m...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZEC allays opposition fears of double voting; over 2,000 fake registrants
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has allayed fears that over 2,000 'fake' registrants using counterfeit identity cards (IDs), identified by pressure group Team Pached...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
ZEC spells out election day conduct
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday released a list of activities that are not permitted within a 300-metre radius of a polling station on election day next Wednesday.Posting on ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gave candidates useless voters rolls
Addressing election observers yesterday, the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Justice Priscilla Chigumba said ZEC gave local authority candidates copies of the ward voters roll, Nation...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:14hrs | 68 | by Jonathan Moyo
Voters roll ruling backlash unnerves judge
HIGH Court judge Justice Never Katiyo has accused the opposition of endangering his life and that of his family members by publicly criticising him after he dismissed the party's application for the r...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
ZEC still printing ballot papers
THE ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it is still in the process of finalizing the printing of ballot papers, with less than a week for the country to hold general elections.This comes ...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
ZEC declares readiness for credible, free polls
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is ready to deliver free and credible elections next Wednesday with most of the logistical arrangements now in place.The chairperson of the electoral body, Ju...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Candidates Intimidating the electorate must be disqualified
Dear President Mnangagwa and Mrs Chigumba, A video of a Zanu PF candidate intimidating villagers, telling them that they will be issued with voting cards when they arrive at the polling statio...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 14:29hrs | 24 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Candidates intimidating electorate must be disqualified
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba,A video of a Zanu-PF candidate intimidating villagers, telling them that they w...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora called Mnangagwa after ZEC's decision to bar 87 of his MPs
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora called President Emmerson Mnangagwa to air his grievances over the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) decision to bar 87 of the party's aspiring Parliamentari...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
CCC hits voters roll brick wall
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has approached the High Court, seeking audience with Justice Never Chitiyo after he ruled that the party's urgent application for an interdict to compel ...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:36hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere takes poll fight to Sadc
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he has appealed to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to rescue his presidential bid after he was disqualified by the High and Sup...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 07:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa suffers double blow
A BULAWAYO High Court judge yesterday barred 12 parliamentary candidates from the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) from standing in next month's election, handing three Zanu-PF cand...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:47hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins 3 Parly seats unopposed after High Court ruling
THE High Court yesterday nullified the National Assembly candidature of 18 members of various political parties who filed their nomination papers outside the timeframes when the Nomination Court sat l...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Late candidates: High Court to rule on preliminary points
HIGH Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu will today make a ruling on the preliminary points raised during arguments in an application in which 12 registered voters in Bulawayo are challenging the Zimba...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
High Court set to rule on Zimbabwe polls nomination case
HIGH Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu will today make a ruling on the preliminary points raised during arguments in an application in which 12 registered voters in Bulawayo are challenging the Zimba...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC gets electronic voters roll from ZEC
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has finally handed over a copy of the electronic voters roll to the Citizens Coalition for Change just over a month before general elections on August 23.ZEC ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 20:17hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CIO versus Zimbabwe military
TENSIONS are mounting within state security structures and government, as well as Zanu-PF, over the role being played by the shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimb...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:26hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Zapu frets over move to disqualify its candidates
Former Zapu secretary-general Strike Mnkandla says a court challenge against his candidacy and other opposition candidates was a deliberate Zanu-PF strategy to eliminate challengers in the August 23 e...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:25hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
'Court challenge against most likely intended to eliminate serious competition'
An independent candidate, cited as one of the respondents in a case where twelve registered voters in Bulawayo seeking the nullification of the candidature of those they alleged registered after the c...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 14:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZEC candidate challenge date set
THE hearing of the matter involving the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and some registered voters in Bulawayo challenging the electoral body's decision to accept nomination papers of members of v...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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