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Voters roll perfect, claims Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday claimed that its voters roll was "very perfect" after only 1% of registered voters made corrections to their details.Statistics released by Ze...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe voter inspection: Less than 1% errors identified
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said less than one percent errors were identified in the country's voters' roll after nearly three million inspected it.The commission was conductin...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC seeks dialogue with Zec
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) demanding dialogue on the need to address alleged electoral malpractices ahead of the 2023 polls....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:09hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
ZEC opens voter's roll for inspection
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday opened the national voter's roll for public inspection ahead of the imminent delimitation of constituencies with more than 11 000 inspection centres e...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:17hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Storm over Mohadi ZEC appointment
A POLITICAL storm is raging over the controversial appointment of the daughter of Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi (pictured) and the ruling party's Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Abigail Mi...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:36hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter
180 000 errors on Zimbabwe's voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it had picked up over 180 000 errors on the voters roll as of June 23, a figure election watchdogs said was too huge and could have a strong bear...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:31hrs | 821 | 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 | 134 | by Staff reporter
'3 million eligible Zimbabwean voters unregistered'
ELECTORAL watchdog, the Election Resource Centre says Zimbabwe's total eligible voters should hover around eight million, meaning that nearly three million people are not interested to vote.A ...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:22hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
ZEC to embark on 10-day voters roll inspection
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will embark on a 10-day voters' roll inspection ahead of the delimitation exercise which shall be conducted in terms of Sections 160 and 161 of the Constitution...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:17hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt defends appointment of Mohadi's daughter as ZEC commissioner
GOVERNMENT has defended the appointment of Zanu-PF Vice President Kembo Mohadi's daughter, Abigail, as a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commissioner, saying she has a right to serve the nation ju...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:41hrs | 5686 | by Staff reporter
Zec refuses with 2018 voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has failed to release the 2018 provisional voters' roll to an independent think-tank, the Election Resource Centre (ERC), thereby flouting a High Court order, w...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 09:57hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Boundary dispute stalls Zec delimitation
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has urged the Karoi Town Council and Hurungwe Rural District Council to solve the boundary dispute at Operation Garikai houses to pave way for a delimitation ex...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:37hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Over 500 000 get births, IDs in blitz
More than 500 000 people have obtained birth certificates and national identity cards in the ongoing mobile blitz for civil registration ongoing countrywide, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Ministe...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:32hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
IDs registration requirements streamlined
Government has streamlined requirements for the issuance of national civic documents to make it easier for those who have been facing challenges, while people have to register to vote to defend the co...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Call for another voter registration blitz
ELECTORAL watchdogs have implored the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to consider another voter registration blitz to offer citizens who have since acquired identity cards the chance to register t...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:05hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Voter apathy is Zimbabwe's elephant in the room ahead of 2023 polls
Bongani Ndlovu, a Zanu-PF councillor in Matabeleland North's Bubi district holds the unenviable record of registering the least number of voters in the March 26 parliamentary and local government elec...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:15hrs | 366 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
Bulawayo to incorporate neighbouring areas
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to take advantage of the ongoing delimitation exercise to finalise boundary changes that will see the city incorporating areas that fall under Umguza Rural District Co...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:09hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe fails to meet ZEC deadline
ZANU PF chairperson for Mashonaland Central province Kazembe Kazembe reportedly failed to meet the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) deadline for voter ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:39hrs | 1384 | by Paul Ndou
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 | 458 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda agrees to diaspora vote
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda says the Constitution should be amended to allow people in the diaspora to vote, becoming the first senior official in the ruling Zanu-PF party to push t...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | 2053 | by Staff reporter
Zec refuses to release voters roll to 'regime change' NGOs
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) reportedly has refused to release a copy of the voters roll for analysis by independent watchdogs such as the Election Resource Centre (ERC), raising fears that...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:52hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Delimitation of constituencies begins
The delimitation of constituencies, wards and other electoral boundaries for elections over the next decade, including the 2023 harmonised elections, will begin next Wednesday, running through to Dece...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's voters roll will close for delimitation on May 30
Zimbabwe's voters roll will close for delimitation on May 30, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced on Tuesday.ZEC said the delimitation exercise – the drawing of constituency bo...Published: 25 May 2022 at 17:21hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ignores colonials masters' poll recommendations
ZIMBABWE has failed to effect critical recommendations of the European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) that observed the 2018 harmonised elections with the grouping warning of a potentially...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:29hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has failed to implement electoral reforms: EU
ZIMBABWE has failed to take steps to implement electoral reforms that would guarantee free and fair elections next year, a European Union observer mission (EUOM) said yesterday.The EU mission ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:01hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Zec completely lost on elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) never ceases to amaze.Its penchant to always blame someone or something for its own failures is incredible.Now Zec is suggesting that elections ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe elections a security threat'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has accused politicians of fanning anarchy by alleging that it was mismanaging elections.Zec also claimed that elections in the country were now a secur...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over CCC rural penetration
Zanu-PF provincial leadership is sweating over Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s rural mobilisation strategy which has seen the opposition party penetrate the rural areas which have been Zanu-PF s...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:44hrs | 1953 | by Staff reporter
Most times, only 'solution' to Zimbabwe's myriad of problems is simply a completely new leadership!
Yesterday (May 3, 2022), when I was attentively listening to the deputy information minister, Kindness Paradza, addressing a World Press Freedom Day gathering in Bulawayo, there was a statement he mad...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:26hrs | 526 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Census: ZimStart begins 5-day mop up
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) will in the next five days, be mopping up those who were not counted for one reason or the other, during last week's counting.Yesterday, ZimStat s...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:54hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Plea for voter registration blitz extension
CIVIC Society organisations, political parties and the public in general have pleaded with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to extend its mobile voter registration blitz which ends today....Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:16hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Ekhaya vote takes voter education to rural areas
Ekhaya vote, a consortium of civic organisations have intensified voter education in rural areas in a bid to increase voter awareness....Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 529 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's 5th population census starts Thursday
Zimbabwe will this Thursday begin a 10-day national population census, its fifth since independence from Britain in 1980.Some programs have been put on hold to pave the way for the national pr...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:15hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Zec's 20-day voter registration blitz too short
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has earmarked 20 days only for the voter registration exercise and is calling it a blitz.It can hardly be called a blitz when Zec is only providing one ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 138 | by A Mbire
Census in jeopardy
THE national 2022 population and housing census which begins tomorrow faces a rocky start after reports emerged that the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) failed to pay allowances to enum...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | 462 | 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 | 174 | by Staff reporter
'Media attacks on Zec contribute to voter apathy'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said persistent attacks on it by the media and political players and partisan reporting is contributing to voter apathy in the country.Concerns have...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Call for mine workers to register and vote opposition into power - last resort
HARARE - As the momentum for the electoral cycle nears 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government General Elections, workers and their dependants have been urged to register to vote as Unio...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 19:42hrs | 795 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' 2022 census
Zanu-PF youths have allegedly been hired as enumerators for the forthcoming national census, raising fears that the party may tamper with census figures ahead of the delimitation exercise as the count...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles reject Zimbabwe unitary state through election boycott
Through the boycott of the recent voter registration and by- election boycott, the the people of Matabeleland especially the youth, have ditched the oppressive Zimbabwe unitary state for the Republic ...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 10:21hrs | 2163 | by Israel Dube
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 | 138 | by Staff reporter
The 2022 national census and the politics of delimitation ahead of 2023 general elections
In Zimbabwe, population and household census is a constitutionally mandated procedure that is significant for several reasons. At its most basic level, a fair census is needed simply to determine how ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:09hrs | 539 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Sadc must enforce election guidelines, says Zesn
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has called on the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) to penalise member States who keep violating the bloc's election guidelines.In...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:03hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
'Voters roll is in shambles, unusable'
THE voters roll which will be used by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the Saturday by-elections is shambolic, with an unacceptably high margin of error of 27%, watchdogs have said.A...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Zec taken to court on unfair dismissal over leaked voters roll
FORMER Zimbabwe Electoral Commission director for Information Communication Technology and voter delimitation, Pamela Mapondera has dragged the electoral body before the Labour Court for unlawfully te...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland does not need leaders from Mashonaland, we have our own
"The buzz word "change" in Zimbabwe has generated hope and excitement that will deliver gloom and doom only to be felt and experienced after the elections. Removing Zanupf and E.D Mnangagwa is not Cha...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 06:01hrs | 2965 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF targets people wearing yellow clothes
POLITICAL observers have noted intolerant behaviour towards anyone donning yellow clothes associated with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) theme colour.In its latest long-term el...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:15hrs | 1803 | by Staff reporter
Only 3 600 register to vote in Matebeleland South
ONLY about 3 600 voters in Matebeleland South Province were registered to vote during the just-ended Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) blitz.Lack of suffic...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:56hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland North, South risk losing constituencies
MATEBELELAND North and South had the lowest number of new voter registrants during the jus-ended voter registration blitz, with analysts citing poor timing by the electoral management body among the r...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1460 | by Staff reporter
NGO engages stakeholders for youth voter registration awareness campaign
MAKOKOBA Multi-stakeholders Forums (MMF) Chairperson Mhlonitshwa Moyo has invited all different organisations and resident stakeholders to increase awaren...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 22:55hrs | 169 | by Stephen Jakes
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