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SA election supply firm paid Chivayo R800 million
Zimbabwe's Ministry of Finance paid more than R1.1 billion to a South African company contracted to supply materials for the country's 2023 general elections - and over R800 million of tha...Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 20:40hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo, Zec corruption scandal spreads to SA
A JOHANNESBURG printing firm and its agent are being investigated by Zimbabwe's anti-corruption authority for price gouging on election-related material and equipment.Zimbabwe is no stranger t...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:48hrs | 1997 | by Staff reporter
The evolution of Zimbabwe's voters' roll
A SHORT HISTORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF ZIMBABWE'S VOTERS ROLL AND WHY SECTION 23(3) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IS OUTDATED, PURPOSELESS, UNREASONABLE AND UNCONTITUTIONAL.IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE and use...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zec's refusal to avail electronic 2023 voters' roll dents election
THE voters' roll which is in a shambles and the persistent refusal by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to release the electronic version for audit have dented the credibility of the 23 August g...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC demand credible, auditable voters roll
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has demanded an accessible, auditable, and credible voters roll ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 Harmonized elections.The announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral...Published: 24 May 2023 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC extends voter registration blitz
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has extended the mobile voter registration blitz and voter education by five days."The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission would like to advise the public tha...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aspiring voters flood Zec centres
Politicians from across the divide led the mobilisation exercise, ferrying supporters to the mobile registration centres.ASPIRING voters congested the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mobil...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voters roll a mess, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has admitted that the voters roll to be used in next year's polls is a mess and needs serious scrutiny and audit for it to be credible.Section 35 of the Electoral Act gives the Zimbabw...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Conduct a third mobile voter registration blitz' ZEC told
EkhayaVote2023 takes note of the BVR blitz Phase 2 statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and celebrates its volunteers who operated in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South Provinc...Published: 06 May 2022 at 17:32hrs | 10 | by EkhayaVote2023
Umzingwane villagers accuse Zec of ambush
VILLAGERS in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South province, have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of ambushing them in the just-ended biometric voter registration (BVR) blitz after the progra...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec rolls out last phase of voter registration
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday started rolling out the second and last phase of the mobile biometric voter registration (BVR) countrywide ahead of the delimitation exercise in Augus...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
By-elections went according to plan
LAST week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) held by-elections to fill 28 National Assembly seats and 122 council vacancies which had arisen due to opposition recalls as well as deaths. The much...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zec registers 80 000 new voters
MORE than 80 000 new voters were registered on the voters roll during the recently concluded first phase of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) blitz.Harare Metropolitan Province had the hi...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Team Pachedu takes Zec head-on
ACTIVISTS Team Pachedu yesterday hit back at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), accusing it of failing to address discrepancies observed in the voters roll."We would like to put it on re...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Our hands are clean, claims Team Pachedu
WE would like to put it on record that Team Pachedu has, indeed, submitted our concerns to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and it has not responded.We have also personally sent it requ...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Team Pachedu
ZEC exposed over vote-rigging chicanery ahead of by-elections
IN a scandal which fuels fears elections are usually rigged in Zimbabwe and which further damages the image of the already discredited Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), the elections body, run by s...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zec dismisses rigging claims
Fake poll rigging claims circulating on social media platforms and other media outlets are regular phenomena before elections as some parties want to blame the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for losing...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC Mashonaland West On Voter Mobilisation Blitz Ahead Of 2023
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has embarked on a massive mobilisation blitz to enlist potential voters in the ongoing biometric voter registration (BVR).The party's provincial chairman, R...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration marred by apathy
THE ongoing biometric voter registration (BVR) blitz has been marred by apathy with several potential registrants claiming that they are being turned away due to lack of documentation.The Zimb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGOs hit back at Zec
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba under fire over poll remarks
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC 'bans' civic groups from conducting voter education
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has banned Civic Society Organisation (CSOs) that are not accredited with them from conducting voters' education, a move viewed as a blow to voter mobilisation ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa was secretly dining with a Zanu-PF faction
Having gone through a lot of Alex Magaisa's recent articles, it is fair that a response by a Zimbabwean youth is given. After the disastrous 2013 election, the MDC-T family and its president Morgan Ts...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Honourable Vincent Tsvangirai MP
18 000 dead voters struck off roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) struck off the voters' roll, more than 18 000 deceased people between January and December last year. ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba s...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC secretary-general hopefuls speak out
The MDC today enters into a crucial week in which it holds its elective congress. Several positions are up for grabs and many officials are jostling - fair and foul - to fill them up. One of t...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec warms up for 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner has started warming up for the 2023 harmonised elections by convening a national multi-stakeholder conference aimed at reflecting at the July 30, 2018 general polls...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition will not observe ballot paper printing: Mangwana
Zanu-PF legal affairs secretary and party representative in the political party dialogue, Paul Mangwana (PM), has justified the presence of ex-military generals in the ruling party politburo. ...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF can't criticise system that gave it victory
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday disclosed that it blocked its candidates who lost in the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections from challenging the election results in court because that would have di...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora takes Chamisa head-on
After MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa announced that the party will hold its congress between May 24 and 26 to choose the late Morgan Tsvangirai's successor, interest in who will be the next leader...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another MDC MP up for violating Electoral Act
The trial of MDC-Alliance legislator Samuel Banda, who is accused of violating the Electoral Act, commenced on Monday, with him denying the allegations. It is the State's case that in December...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 23:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voting machines impress Zec delegation
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) which recently deployed an observer mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ahead of the Southern African country's general election today - believes ...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
+50% struck off Mutoko North voters' roll
THE biometric voters' roll (BVR) for Mutoko North by-election has exposed serious irregularities by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the contested 2013 general elections which former Preside...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zec challenged over BVR discrepancies
EMINENT persons observer mission under the Electoral Support Network of Southern Africa, have called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to clean up the biometric voters' roll (BVR) and improve...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPP exposes threats BVR was to be used for witch hunting voters
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has extensively reported on widespread intimidation and harassment used in the run up to the elections. The organisation said there were threats of using the B...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zec exonerates Zanu PF over voters' phone numbers
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says Zanu PF got mobile numbers of voters during its door-to-door campaigns, denying allegations that it gave President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa a different vot...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa battleground shifts to ConCourt
AS Zimbabweans anxiously await the outcome of the presidential election petition by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), which is set for next Wednesday, the two ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU to cut funding to Zesn over positive report on Zimbabwe election?
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), an independent electoral watchdog, has been under tremendous pressure from European Union (EU) donors, particularly Britain, to doctor and alter its repor...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba trashes Chamisa's petition
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba yesterday indicated that she was ready for a legal showdown with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, where she will shoot dow...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr Chamisa, it's game over!
IT'S game over, and this writer cannot agree more with the thinker who says, "Good management is what creates results." The same with Paul Hawken's flip-side when he says, "Good management is the art ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
A confidential letter to Judge Chigumba & ZEC
I greet you cordially. I am writing this letter to let you know that your conduct of the 2018 elections has embarrassed both the living and the living-timeless. I am among the Zimbabweans sham...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 19:35hrs | | by Don Chugumba
'A political watershed in Zimbabwe's history' International Monitors Bless Elections
On the back of the Indian delegation's report yesterday, today SADC, the regional body representing our neighbouring countries also chimed in.With ZANU and ED running away with a seeming lands...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Joice Tsitsi
Zimbabwe Election 2018 Predictive Model-It's not even close!
In less than a week Zimbabweans vote in a watershed election. Not surprisingly the impending elections evoke a myriad of emotions for different reasons. Some are hyper-ventilating; some are quacking i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by George Chingarande
Zimbabwe media remain polarised, unbalanced
Despite the ethical and legal obligation to be impartial in their coverage of electoral processes, the media in Zimbabwe remain polarised and unbalanced in their electoral coverage and reportage, medi...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 16:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Go to court if aggrieved: Sadc
Political parties aggrieved by the electoral process should use legal means to seek redress in order to avoid conflict, head of the Sadc Election Observer Mission (SEOM) Tete Antonio has counselled....Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Citizens now live in fear due to Zanu PF mobile messages - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said it recorded reports of terrified citizens based on two main issues."The first main source of fear are the messages that voters received on their mobiles ask...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
ZEC: A menace tormenting Zimbabwe
It has become a norm that every election in Zimbabwe is mired by a series of despicable irregularities cooked by the same body which is mandatory for presiding over elections. For so long, ZEC refused...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 16:45hrs | 4 | by Benny Gudo
'Chamisa's Russian rigging plot claims childish'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF has rubbished MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's claims that it was colluding with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in an elaborate plot to rig n...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trust, not arrogance, will deliver a good election
The 2018 World Cup spectacle has been a jarring and intriguing global tournament at many levels. Besides the remote control tensions and conflicts it visited unto our living rooms and the early humble...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye
Can MDC Alliance point finger at Zec?
THERE is a time to set the record straight so that repeated lies about anyone and anything do not begin to sound like the truth.Fellow Zimbabwean Brighton Musonza posted this on social media r...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
ZEC's Black-Box Approach: Ballot Politics & Electoral Risks
'Any initiative which makes our elections more credible, inclusive and democratic cannot be said to be in violation of the constitution and electoral laws.'Reader, just across the mighty Zambe...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 11:16hrs | | by Dr. Phillan Zamchiya and Washington Katema
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