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Constitutional changes on cards in Zimbabwe
Government has set in motion plans to transfer the responsibility to register voters from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Civil Registry Department in sweeping changes to the electoral ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZEC unfit to run free, fair elections - Study
A NEW study on Zimbabwe's electoral politics, processes and institutions has found that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is deeply distrusted by voters, hence cannot be trusted to preside over ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Names vanish from Zimbabwe voters roll
THE on-going Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) voters roll inspection exercise has exposed major anomalies as many people including prominent opposition politicians could not locate their names on t...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec closes voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) closed the voters roll yesterday to pave way for the delimitation exercise.Delimitation of constituency boundaries is done every 10 years on a date set ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says economy will get worse
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that the economic situation will get worse because of the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to manage ...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC blamed for low voter registration turnout
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is to blame for the low registration numbers as it has failed to carry out its mandate of encouraging eligible citizens to register to vote, activists have said...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC says sorry
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday admitted that it had deprived thousands of prospective first-time voters an opportunity to participate in the upcoming by-elections after it failed to...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF will never deliver free, fair polls
IS a free, fair and credible election possible in Zimbabwe in 2023? Certainly not.The ruling Zanu-PF party will never accede to the demand for free and credible elections as that will certainl...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Chief Chiduku
MDC demands diaspora vote, biometric voting
The MDC will not go into any future presidential election presided over by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, officials said on Thursday.The party is calling for the disbandment of the electio...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by ZimLive
Zec in 2018 poll diagnosis
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will this week host representatives of political parties, election observer groups, constitutional commissions and civic society to diagnose its handling of the...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye
Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Philemon Mutedzi
'Vapostori have influence on election results'
A STUDY recently released by think-tank the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) has revealed that members of the religious apostolic sect (Vapostori) are mostly affiliated to the ruling Zanu-PF party, re...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deficit of democracy in the opposition
Zimbabwe under President Mnangagwa has opened up democratic space in the country since November 2017. As the country celebrates the first anniversary of Zimbabwe's rebirth, there is reason to celebrat...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | | by Philemon Mutedzi
+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 in e-voting tender storm
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is in the eye of a storm for allegedly courting an Estonian company to roll out an electronic voting system, which it plans to use in 2023 to allow Zimbabweans in the...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1 | 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
Ethiopia taps into Zec system
A FOUR-MEMBER team from the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) is in the country taking notes from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) as they move to transform their own election managem...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe polls were meant to start new era'
Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared president of Zimbabwe amid protests and violence.But Zimbabweans are now in a post-political, economy-first mood.Before Zimbabwe's general election...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 13:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
'Election results expose arithmetic errors'
Results for the 2018 harmonised election announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) expose disturbing arithmetic errors, an election watchdog has said.Election Resource Centre (ERC) ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Presidential election results contain disturbing arithmetic errors
The results announced by the electoral commission reflect ill-preparedness and gross inaccuracies, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has said.President Emmerson Mnangagwa received 50,8 percen...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
How 2018 elections were rigged twice in 3 days
As the whole nation is still in shock regarding the outcome of the 2018 harmonised elections as well as congratulatory messages starting to pour in from foreign governments wishing the President-elect...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
Everything you need to know about Zim's election
TODAY, Zimbabweans go to the polls to elect a President, parliamentarians and local councillors.The elections are an unprecedented opportunity for Zimbabweans to choose who they believe can de...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Piers Pigou
'Spooks' in Chamisa anti-rigging experts
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has put together a team of experts in an attempt to forestall any form of rigging that may arise before, during and after the Monday poll.Harare lawyer Thaba...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sadc, help avoid sham Zimbabwe poll
At a recent rally held in Bulawayo Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance presidential candidate, announced that on July 24, exactly six days before the 2018 harmonised elections, they will meet with the Zi...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
'2 million voters removed from voters' roll'
More than two million voters who appeared on the 2013 preliminary voters' roll failed to find their way onto the 2018 biometric voters' roll (BVR), the Zimbabwe Elections Network (Zesn) has revealed....Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu rules out boycotting elections
ZAPU has ruled out boycotting the upcoming elections despite what it described as an uneven political field favouring Zanu-PF, coupled with a shoe-string budget that has seen the opposition party fail...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should postpone elections
Last week, I published findings from my research of six years on how certain individuals had abrogated themselves the role of choosing Zimbabwe's elected leaders through an elaborate election rigging ...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
Zimbabwe electoral body's database hacked
UNDERFIRE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has sensationally claimed that suspected hackers recently broke into the electoral management body's database and s...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Redesigned voting booth exposes Zec fears
AS the crucial July 30 general elections draw closer, the political atmosphere is increasingly becoming toxic, with opposition parties getting more and more suspicious of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commis...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gives 24-hour ultimatum
THE MDC-T and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to mobilise the opposition party's supporters to picket at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) head office starting tomorrow until J...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
92,000 'ghost voters' still on new roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has all but backed opposition claims that the biometric voters roll to be used in this month's election' is already in shambles with double registrations as wel...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our vote or face: Which right to protect?
Simmering tension brew across the entire body politic in the country as the national polling day draw near. The major standoff lies with the processes that lead to free, fair and credible election. Fi...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
ZEC dismisses reports of 250 000 ghost voters on the roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has dismissed claims that there are 250 000 ghost voters on the biometric voters roll.In a statement ZEC said the claims was a lie."In one of th...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Biti ready to die'
MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti clams his opposition party has been winning elections since 2002 but the ruling party has been stealing it from them and has vowed to die for their win in the loomin...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zec beefs up voters' roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has pulled another shocker by adding new names on its biometric voters' roll (BVR) weeks after releasing what it claimed was the final version.In its la...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 08:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to announce poll results
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday threatened to pre-empt the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s vote-rigging antics by prematurely announcing results for the July 30 elections to enable ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fighting wrong opponent in wrong battle
This pre-election period has been as eventful as it is important. What with the panic-stricken MDC-Alliance behaving like a headless chicken trying to make up for its five-year absentee politician stu...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
ZEC must be called to order: MDC
The integrity and credibility of our election is now being undermined and compromised on a daily basis and ZEC is a willing tool at the center of it. It is now almost impossible to have a free...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 13:42hrs | | by Hon Jameson Timba
Zanu-PF badly exposes ZEC
The rift between the Zec and the country's opposition parties taking part in the forthcoming polls has widened in the wake of the short message service saga that erupted on Monday. This comes ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to lead protest from front
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said he will today lead the protest march against Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s alleged bias towards Zanu-PF ahead of this month's crunch polls.C...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF breaks into Zec database?
STAKEHOLDERS in the harmonised elections have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of granting Zanu-PF access to the Biometric Voters Roll (BVR) database where the ruling party accessed reg...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
250 000 'ghost voters' on roll?
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has reportedly released a register of voters with over 250 000 ghost voters on its final biometric voters' roll (BVR), NewsDay reported.The alleged scam...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It’s the economy, stupid!
Three weeks to the elections and the only thing that is clear is that Zanu PF still has no idea how to turn around the economy. The state media reports that billions of dollars of investments are pour...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 23:31hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
3 million ghosts on the voters' roll?
ZIMBABWE once again finds herself being railroaded into an election, despite tangible proof that conditions on the ground are not yet conducive for a free and fair poll. All this flies against postula...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
'Chigumba is an able lawyer' says EU observer mission
The European Union Election Observer Mission in Zimbabwe has described Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chair Justice Priscilla Chigumba as an able lawyer who "knows very much the law and sticks to the l...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charamba scoffs at Chamisa's vitriol attacks on Zec
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba yesterday scoffed at Chamisa's vitriol attacks on Zec, saying they were (Zec) "both unlawful and absurd, to say the least"."In terms...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
MDC Alliance's demands duplicitous
While the MDC Alliance among other opposition parties made so much noise about being involved in the electoral processes, the electoral board (Zimbabwe Electoral Commission) gladly facilitated it, how...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 12:53hrs | | by Rufaro Gijima
Chamisa cries foul
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to do everything possible to stop the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) from manipulating the July 30 general elections in favour of President Emmerson M...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba scuppers Chamisa's chances
THE MDC Alliance yesterday raised a red flag over a litany of electoral irregularities which it claimed were part of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s choreographed scheme to scupper coalition...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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