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Mudslinging, namedropping intensify ahead of ZIFA polls
The race for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency has intensified, with candidates raising objections against rivals as the vetting of their credentials continues. The elections, set fo...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 15:43hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya implicated in Gift Banda forgery?
Gift Banda, a well-known businessman based in Bulawayo, has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) for allegedly forging O-level certificates that he submitted for his nomination in the u...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 14:08hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Cowards must stop quacking, come out of the closet and fight like man! - VAAZ
While known state functionaries and regime enablers have been waging a protracted onslaught on the persona of Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we the advocates of change have unmasked the grand plot by regime...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 19:24hrs | 1116 | by Mandava Blessing - Veterans Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ) National Spokespers on
Mahere speaks out against Tshabangu
Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu was sworn in as a senator at the new Parliament Building in Mt. Hampden in Harare on Tuesday. He took oath with seven oth...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's power retention moves face tricky constitutional hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to seek a third term in office, which he has set in motion, faces legal hurdles because the constitution bars incumbents from benefiting from an amendment allowing a...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students shine in Cambridge exams
Zimbabwean students who sat the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Examinations recorded a very high pass rate in 2023, Advanced Level results released this week have shown, with parents excited abou...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:45hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fallout over campaign vehicles escalates
Unsuccessful Zanu-PF candidates in the recent harmonized elections have criticized the Harare provincial leadership for their perceived punitive actions, including threats to involve the police in the...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF engages police to recover party vehicles
Zanu-PF has issued a warning to losing party candidates who have failed to return their party vehicles as instructed, cautioning that the vehicles could be repossessed by the police if they do not com...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF orders losing candidates to surrender party campaign vehicles without fail
Zanu-PF has issued a directive instructing all of its party candidates who were unsuccessful in the recent harmonized elections to return the top-of-the-range cars they had received in preparation for...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another sham election
As we go the wire and reach the high political pitch, it is now crystal clear that the main political menu is between Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa and not even political savvy voter will mosa...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 16:23hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
2-man race in battle for Zimbabwe State House
AS things stand, it is abundantly clear and an inescapable fact that the battle for State House is squarely between Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 11 | by Lovemore Moyo
POLAD members back Mnangagwa in upcoming election
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has received the backing of four 'opposition' parties in his Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) platform.POLAD Chairperson Francis Danha who led the 1980 Freedom Mo...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in bid to stop ballot printing
SELF-EXILED presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to stop printing ballot papers without his name unless the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) b...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cries foul
PARLIAMENTARY candidates for the Masvingo Urban constituency are crying foul over the illegal defacing of their campaign posters ahead of the crucial August 23 plebiscite.Three candidates; cur...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Vote Mnangagwa Out,' Madhuku
GOROMONZI - National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president, Lovemore Madhuku told his supporters to vote out Zanu PF and it's leader President Emmerson ...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:11hrs | 6 | by Ndou Paul
'Mnangagwa wants to throw Zimbabwe into anarchy,' says angry Chamisa
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa is livid following the disqualification of 12 opposition parliamentary candidates in Bulawayo saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on the...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs change in governance system as much as change of government!
As the crucial 23rd August 2023 Zimbabwe harmonized elections beckon, all competing political players appear to have one convergence point for a chance to be voted into power.Regardl...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 18:22hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's first female president needs your vote
Opposition United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) leader Elisabeth Valerio has won her appeal against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's decision to reject her nomination papers, and immediately appealed to ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crowds scrambling for freebies at Zanu-PF rallies
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president, Lovemore Madhuku says chaotic scenes of commandeered crowds scrambling for free groceries at the ruling party, Zanu-PF, rallies are a sign of the gove...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poll preps face major hurdles
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says a litany of court cases are exerting "a lot of pressure" on the electoral body to meet specified timelines to prepare for the August 23 polls.Addre...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
High Court hears CCC candidates' case
THE Bulawayo High Court will today hear the case between the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and three aspiring Bulawayo National Assembly aspirants whose nominations are being contested by the pa...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZEC finalises postal voting list
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is finalising the processing of applications for postal voting from members of the uniformed forces and election officials intending to cast their votes ahead o...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF unleashes violence on Chidhakwa's supporters
A TENSE political environment has engulfed Zvimba South constituency, where former Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa's supporters have come under siege from alleged ruling party functionaries.No...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son blasts Ziyambi over nomination fees rant
THE opposition Zapu party on Saturday blasted Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi's remarks that the electorate must not trust political parties that fail to pay nomination fees saying that they will ste...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exodus continues as Zimbabwean economy lies in ruins ahead of elections
Soaring inflation and collapsing ‘bond notes' are forcing more and more qualified people and professionals to flee the country.Zimbabwe's poor economic performance and depreciation of the su...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Flurry of court cases casts shadow on August 23 polls
A string of court cases challenging processes leading to the August 23 elections has raised the spectre of Zimbabwe holding another disputed poll with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's challengers compla...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Politics now highest paying job in Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe Socio Economic Democrats (ZSD) party President Nkosikhona Ndlovu has said politics was now the highest paying job in the country as evidenced by internal squabbles in the ruling party and som...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 16:11hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'There's still time to resolve nomination disputes'
LEGAL think-tank Veritas says there is still enough time for the courts to resolve electoral disputes arising from the just-ended nomination process, where some aspiring candidates complained of being...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe democracy for sale
AN imperfect stage is now set for Zimbabweans to elect new leaders after processes to confirm candidates for presidential, parliamentary and local government positions were concluded on June 21....Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 6 | by Kholwani Nyathi
Mnangagwa pledges economic revival as election campaign kicks off
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed to do "what we can to remain in power", promising to revive an economy that has collapsed under his watch as he launched his bid for a second five-year te...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Presidential aspirant sues over rejected nomination
OPPOSITION United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) party leader Elisabeth Valerio has dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to the Electoral Court challenging its decision to reject her bid to ...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obama of Zimbabwe politics bows out of Presidential race due to financial challenges
OPPOSITION Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) party leader Robert Chapman has withdrawn from the August 23 polls Presidential race citing financial constraints.This comes after DUZ Bulawayo pr...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EFF Zimbabwe endorses Mnangagwa
The EFF in Zimbabwe will not field a presidential candidate, but will rally behind "like-minded" Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa on 23 August.Innocent Ndibali Sibanda, the organisation's presiden...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nomination courts sit to register candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
The Nomination Court will tomorrow, 21 June 2023, sit countrywide to register candidates for this year's harmonised elections.Candidates for the Presidential, House of Assembly, Senate (women ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa file nomination papers
The two main protagonists in the August 23 general elections - President Emmerson Mnangagwa (Zanu PF) and Nelson Chamisa (CCC) - have filed their nomination papers in advance of tomorrow's sitting of ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Election nomination fees gazetted
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) said it is going through the final phases of cleaning the voters' roll of mistakes noted during the inspection period and getting it ready for use in the harmon...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections nomination Court to sit on Wednesday
The Nomination Court will sit on Wednesday and political parties planning to field candidates in all wards and constituencies will need to fork out about US$230 800, or the equivalent in local currenc...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere running against time to shake off 'violent' tag
WHEN former Cabinet minister Savior Kasukuwere announced that he would be standing in the upcoming presidential elections on August 23, many people were left trying to figure out his motivation and po...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 'O' Levels requirement for councillors rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is battling fierce strife within its Women's League following exclusion of long-serving and supposedly deserving female cadres, who were disqualified from nomination as Proportional Representa...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa to pay $20,000 to ZEC
YESTERDAY marked the closing of voter registration for the upcoming harmonised elections, according to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).As part of the nomination process, individuals vy...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC to rectify anomalies
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has assured the public that it would rectify all anomalies that were observed during the voters roll inspection exercise.In a statement today, ZEC's Chi...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema says Zimbabweans have let down Ngarivhume
SOUTH Africa's main opposition leader Julius Malema, has urged Zimbabweans to stand up against the harassment of pro-democracy activists following the jailing of opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slips back to gukurahundi years
It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe Jacob Ngarivhume, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some twe...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:12hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe govt charms war collaborators ahead of 2023 general elections
GOVERNMENT has been frantically charming war veterans, ex-political prisoners, detainees, restrictees, non-combatant cadres and war collaborators by increasing pensions ahead of polls later this year,...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
3 million voted in Zanu-PF primaries?
More than three million people voted in the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections, in an unprecedented show of strength and popularity by the ruling party ahead of this year's harmonised elections....Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC goes for complete overhaul in Masvingo
Though there are reports of violence across the country, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party successfully completed its first stage of the long process of candidate selection for the 2023 harmon...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
120 000 more join war vets gravy train
OVER 120 000 ex-combatants, including ex-detainees, have been successfully vetted to receive monthly pay-outs from government for their role during the country's 1970s liberation war.Governmen...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Graft exposé has messed Zanu-PF anti-sanctions campaign?
Opposition People's Unity Party (PUP) leader Herbert Chamuka says damning corruption allegations exposed of individuals closely linked to the ruling elite by news network Al Jazeera has taken away the...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF breaks tradition on primaries?
ZIMBABWE's ruling Zanu-PF party has allowed former opposition members to contest in this week's internal polls, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa breaks with tradition, the Zimbabwe Independent can repo...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries bring new vibe
Zanu-PF will print 23 million ballot papers for the revolutionary party's primary elections as a huge turnout is expected in the polls that have also attracted a record number of aspiring candidates w...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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