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ZEC removes 4 562 dead voters from the voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is in the process of removing a total of 4 562 deceased people from the county's voters' roll.In an extra-ordinary Government gazette Genera...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC cleans up voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed about 5 000 deceased persons from the voters roll as the election management body cleans the roll in terms of the Electoral Act.The removal ...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Elections lack transparency and credibility
The recent ruling by the court of appeal dismissing a request by the main opposition party (CCC) to have access to an up-to-date voter's roll is now a major cause for concern. Why is the Zimbabwe Elec...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 20:12hrs | 18 | by Simbabrashe Jingo
Zimbabwe removes over 2 500 dead people from voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed the names of 2 529 dead people from the voters' roll, with the list, as usual, published in the Government Gazette with the normal invitation for an...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zec to remove 6 000 more dead voters from roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will soon remove 6 533 more deceased persons from the voters roll to clean the document ahead of the delimitation exercise which starts this Sunday.In a...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Zec completes printing of voters' roll
The 2018 voters' roll has been printed and does not have double registrations, nor dead or ghost voters, as it was specifically compiled to address the flaws of the 2013 voters' roll, Zimbabwe Elector...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dead voters
In order to identify dead voters on the 2018 voters' roll, the Commission engaged the office of the Registrar General who is responsible for the registration of births and deaths. 8 146 person...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC Founding Member calls upcoming elections fair and reasonable
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has been dealt a devastating blow to their long-standing attempts to brand the upcoming July presidential elections as illegitimate by one of their own. In fact, th...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 10:39hrs | 2 | by Knowledge Moyo
2018 elections promise to be 'smart'
The Military Assisted Transition (MAT) took place in November last year. It is now six months into 2018 and seven months since the MAT. How are we doing? Our world has certainly changed and it is very...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Eddie Cross
'Nothing amiss about dead voters'
THE Registrar-General's department says there is nothing amiss in finding "dead voters" on the voters roll as the department was seized with many such cases.Reacting to a story in which a Chin...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 20:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Elections: Six make-or-break issues
With the recent announcement of July 30 2018 as the election date, Zimbabwe is less than two months away from crucial polls that are expected to restore political legitimacy following the military-led...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 17:27hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
'Mugabe can run even as a corpse in next year's elections,' says Grace Mugabe
First lady Grace Mugabe's claim that her husband can run even as a corpse in next year's elections has left Zimbabwe's opposition parties seething with anger and even questioning her sanity....Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede kicked out
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it plans to roll out a fresh voter registration exercise starting in May this year in a move that is set to permanently remove Registrar-General Tobaiw...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beware the ghost of Benghazi
YOUTH is a period of impetuosity and adventure. It is a time to test and experiment. It is a period of physical and mental growth.Youth is a time of discovery and for self-definition. It is a ...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Police block march to Mugabe's State House
GOODS worth thousands of dollars were destroyed and looted yesterday as police violently crushed a march by MDC-T youths to State House, where they reportedly intended to push President Robert Mug...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T rolls out #MyZimbabwe campaign
MDC Youth Assembly Chairperson's remarks at the launch of #MyZimbabwe campaign I stand here to speak to you on this historic day as young people who are not prepared to bury the remains of the...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
How Zanu PF stole the election
They have done it again Like so many conflicts in Africa, the political situation in Zimbabwe is very complex and difficult to interpret into the media and common understanding. I once told th...Published: 07 Aug 2013 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe: Is the electronic voters' roll the smoking gun?
Despite President Jacob Zuma's rather premature congratulatory message to Robert Mugabe (89) as validly elected in Zimbabwe's sham election, attention should focus on an analysis of the electronic...Published: 04 Aug 2013 at 12:50hrs | | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, Political Analyst, London
More details on how election was rigged
More details continue to be received that provide analysis of how Wednesday's election was rigged.It's already well known that the voters roll contains at least 1 million dead voters and there...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
US expresses concern over Zimbabwe election
Crisis-weary Zimbabweans flocked to cast their ballots Wednesday in a fiercely contested election overshadowed by accusations of vote-rigging as President Robert Mugabe bids to extend his 33-year rule...Published: 31 Jul 2013 at 11:25hrs | | by AFP
Woman holds back tears after voting
Harare - Zimbabweans began casting ballots on Wednesday in a fiercely contested election dominated by Robert Mugabe's bid to extend his 33-year rule and overshadowed by suspicions of vote rigging....Published: 31 Jul 2013 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe 'wants to win through ghost voters'
The Southern African Development Community's chief observer to Zimbabwe, Bernard Membe, has expressed concern the voters' roll hasn't been released, EWN reported.Voters go to the polls on Wed...Published: 30 Jul 2013 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Voters' roll still secret,' says Biti
President Robert Mugabe's rivals complained Monday they have not yet received a copy of the electoral roll, just two days before Zimbabweans go to the polls.Amid suspicions the list of voters ...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 14:11hrs | 2 | by AFP
Zanu-PF need to harvest the fear of 2008-9
IN less than three weeks, Zimbabweans will go to the polls for the first time since a violent, disputed vote in 2008 forced President Robert Mugabe to form a coalitio...Published: 18 Jul 2013 at 15:13hrs | 6 | by Thomson Reuters
USA has over 2 million dead people on voters roll
THE United States' pretences on democracy received a major knock on Tuesday in the wake of revelations that the country's voters roll has close to two million dead voters.A report by Pew Centr...Published: 16 Feb 2012 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC bias flimsy to push me out: Mtambanengwe
Retired High Court judge Simpson Mtambanengwe says efforts to frustrate him and damage his reputation as chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will not deter him from discharging his dut...Published: 26 Jul 2011 at 12:16hrs | 1 | by MDC-T
Zuma and Sadc can stop Mugabe's new election fraud
DESPITE clear and binding international agreements to the contrary, evidence now available shows that President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu (PF) is again planning to steal the next elections in Zimb...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 11:27hrs | | by RW Johnson
ZESN claim that Dead People Make Up 27 'Per Cent' Of Zim Voters' Roll
An electoral pressure group has made startling revelations of how deceased people still make up 27 percent of the country’s voters’ roll....Published: 21 Jan 2011 at 13:25hrs | | by Byo24News
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