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Demand electoral reforms now, says Zesn
OPPOSITION parties have been urged to demand for electoral reforms ahead of the 2023 general elections as no effort has been made to ensure that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) becomes an inde...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 21:42hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
'Zec must be sole registrar of parties'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must be given the sole responsibility of registering political parties to avoid name contestations among political actors as witnessed in the opposition MDC....Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa risks failure to see through his term of office if he does not embrace the opposition party's proposals for political and electoral reforms....Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 16:57hrs | 5255 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to shape up or ship out
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa risks failure to see through his term of office if he does not embrace the opposition party's proposals for political and electoral refo...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
'Give ZEC power to postpone elections'
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) have come up with a draft Electoral Amendment Bill, which will give the Zimbabwe Electoral Commiss...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 12:21hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa politically sterile despite two-thirds Parliament majority
THE second session of the Ninth Parliament started yesterday, with the first session having produced barely anything in terms of delivering on the legislative agenda laid down by President Emmerso...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 335 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Alignment of Zimbabwe laws can't be delayed any longer
MEMBERS of the Ninth Parliament this week went through an induction and orientation exercise in order to familiarise them with parliamentary processes and procedures and flag out some of the issues in...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | 198 | by John Makamure
New Zimbabwe MPs warned
CLERK of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda yesterday warned legislators against making inflammatory statements that can cause violence during parliamentary public hearings.Chokuda said this at an ind...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 08:43hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance attacks Mudenda over electoral reform comments
THE MDC Alliance yesterday blasted Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda for claiming that the opposition legislators in the last Parliament never moved any motion for electoral laws....Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1624 | by Staff reporter
Mutare Central demands more from Gonese
MUTARE Central constituency is a high-density suburb, which also stretches to some industrial areas and has six wards. Most people in the constituency are not employed and are informal traders who sur...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:05hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
ZEC sued over voter education
Parliamentary and civic rights watchdog, Veritas, is seeking a High Court order to strike down provisions of the Electoral Act which prevent civil society groups, churches, independent candidates and ...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:43hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
A time for calm heads
Anyone with even the most basic understanding of Zimbabwean history will have been nervous last week to hear the chilling words of MDC-T youth chairperson, Happymore Chidziva, that "we will make the c...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 09:41hrs | 709 | by Mike, Harare
The rise of Zanu-PF
As the 2018 harmonised elections draw near, July 30 2018 to be exact, ZANU--PF, as the proverbial Phoenix, is rising from the ashes of the previous dispensation to become a formidable political player...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Zanu-PF slams MDC Alliance's ShutDownHarare plans
The ruling Zanu-PF party has castigated the opposition MDC Alliance for threatening to shut down Harare and stop the July 30 elections if the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) does not heed their el...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:27hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Electoral Amendment Bill into law
President Mnangagwa has signed the Electoral Amendment Bill into law that will bring legal effect to the Statutory Instrument on the Biometric Voter Registration carried out by the Zimbabwe Electoral ...Published: 30 May 2018 at 07:37hrs | 678 | by Staff Reporter
Voter registration deadline announced
The Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) exercise for people who intend to vote in this year's harmonised elections will end two days after proclamation of election dates by President Mnangagwa, a Zimba...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:04hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says more cash to ease shortages
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa says he will announce dates for the harmonised elections within the next two weeks, signalling that the ruling party should engage in overdrive campaigns designed to both lure vote...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Election dates in two weeks, Mnangagwa says
President Mnangagwa says he will announce dates for the harmonised elections within the next two weeks, signalling that the ruling party should engage in overdrive campaigns designed to both lure vote...Published: 20 May 2018 at 06:59hrs | 992 | by Staff Reporter
Zec challenged to reveal ballot paper printer
LEGISLATIVE watchdog, Veritas, has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reveal the name of the ballot paper printers "now" as there was "no legitimate reason" why it should not do so....Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
RGM to be removed from Zimbabwe Airways
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo yesterday said the political plates affixed to the planes - Mugabe (RGM), President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) and former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko (PM) were just t...Published: 11 May 2018 at 08:21hrs | 6059 | by Staff reporter
Fierce fight over electoral law amendments
ELECTORAL amendments still remain a pipedream after Justice minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi on Tuesday negated almost all proposed amendments to the Electoral Amendment Bill by MDC-T chief whip, Innocent Go...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:32hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo defends Mugabe's son-in-law
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo yesterday insisted former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore had no shareholding in Zimbabwe Airways which he said was wholly government-owned.Gu...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:30hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Rigging fears as Zanu-PF blocks reforms
There are unmistakable signs that results of the forthcoming general elections could be contested once again after Zanu PF's rivals raised alarm over the ruling party's refusal to allow key aspects of...Published: 10 May 2018 at 08:53hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF refuses MDC-T's proposal on elections
Tension is likely to brew between Zanu-PF and MDC after the ruling party's Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday refused the MDC's proposal to legislate, through the Electoral Amendment Bill, for an o...Published: 09 May 2018 at 10:16hrs | 3016 | by A Mhlongo
Zanu-PF rejects MDC-T proposals
Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday rejected proposals by MDC-T to legislate, through the Electoral Amendment Bill, for an open tender for the procurement of ballot papers, saying this would...Published: 09 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament resumes sitting today
PARLIAMENT resumes sitting today following a three-week break with the Electoral Amendment Bill expected to take centre stage as the country looks forward to the harmonised elections to be held later ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Zec starts cleaning voters' roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has begun correcting data entry errors made by the voter registration officers on a new voter register ahead of the 2018 presidential, parliamentary and municip...Published: 03 May 2018 at 13:40hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T refuses to commit to gender equality
Proportional Representation legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga says the country's leading political parties Zanu-PF and MDC-T have refused to commit to gender equality and 50-50 representation...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:43hrs | 1901 | by Staff reporter
'Zec should run Zanu-PF, MDC-T primaries'
MAZOWE South Zanu-PF legislator Fortune Chasi has proposed that the ruling party and opposition MDC-T should engage the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to run their primary elections to deal with ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | 309 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa demands that Zec procure ballot boxes by tender
MDC-T chief whip Innocent Gonese on Tuesday called on stakeholders to demand that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) uses the public tender system in the procurement of ballot papers as part of m...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to muzzle gukurahundi commission
Elections lobby groups have raised concern over the Electoral Amendment Bill which appears to muzzle the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) ahead of make-or-break elections to be held this year....Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 10:22hrs | 1032 | by Staff reporter
MP in campaign against hate speech
MDC proportional representative MP Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga says she is lobbying Parliament to amend the Electoral Act so that it penalises political parties and candidates that promote hate sp...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Out-numbered Zanu-PF block elections Bill
Zanu-PF legislators forced the adjournment of the House sitting in a bid to block debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill as they feared being out-numbered by the opposition.Justice, Legal and ...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reorter
Chaos as Electoral Bill debate stalls
OPPOSITION legislators yesterday caused a scene in the National Assembly singing in protest over failure by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to facilitate debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill, which...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Electoral Bill debate stalls
OPPOSITION legislators yesterday caused a scene in the National Assembly singing in protest over failure by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to facilitate debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill, which...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | 157 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T MPs disrupt Electoral debate
MDC-T Members of Parliament yesterday disrupted parliamentary proceedings during debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill.The Bill seeks to fine-tune the Electoral Act ahead of the harmonised el...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rights lawyers call for comprehensive electoral law reforms in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) calls upon the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to initiate a process of wholesale reform of electoral laws to ensure the conformity of the...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 08:33hrs | 507 | by Stephen Jakes
Ziyambi Ziyambi defends Posa, Aippa
Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has defended Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Aippa) and the Public Order and Security Act (Posa) saying the two laws will ...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:26hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's proclamation of new Beitbridge Municipality usurps ZEC's functions
A political analyst Albie Matarutse has said the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's proclamation of New Beitbridge Municipality has usurped the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's functions ahead of this year...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 07:12hrs | 917 | by Stephen Jakes
MP stirs heated debate over Mnangagwa media coverage
THERE was heated debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill in Parliament on Tuesday, with Binga North MP Prince Dubeko Sibanda (MDC-T) saying the upcoming elections would not be fair as long as President...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:18hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T's Eddie Cross applauds Mnangagwa
MDC-T Bulawayo South Member of Parliament Mr Eddie Cross has admitted that the new dispensation has ushered in new investor confidence in the country with Government negotiating investment deals worth...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutinhiri committed no crime
MABVUKU-Tafara MP, James Maridadi (MDC-T) has chided Zanu-PF legislators for being intolerant to divergent political views and rushing to criminalise the newly-formed New Patriotic Front (NPF) led by ...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:16hrs | 1359 | by Staff reporter
Zec ready for elections, says Chigumba
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba yesterday insisted that the electoral management body was well prepared for the upcoming elections, although it was operating on a s...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's first 100 Days: Crossing the river while feeling the rocks
Mnangagwa will complete his first 100 days in office on the 4th of March, 2018. A period of 100 days in power is too short to judge Mnangagwa, but it is certainly long enough a period to judge the dir...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2305 | by Vusi Nyamazana
ZEC proposes amendments to Electoral Act
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has proposed a number of amendments to the Electoral Act that will be tabled before Parliament when it resumes debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill next week....Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to repeal laws that hinder free polls
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice yesterday recommended that there must be amendments or a repeal of laws that hinder the smooth running of elections such as the Public Order and Securi...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 05:54hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Portfolio Committee meeting in Kadoma
The Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, will be holding Public consultations with relevant stakeholders from the 17th to the 22nd November, 2017 to gather views on the Ins...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 12:56hrs | 346 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa takes Mahoka to task
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zanu-PF Women's League secretary for finance Sarah Mahoka must explain herself following utterances she made at a recent rally at the party's headquart...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 06:56hrs | 2987 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo showdown looms over Gono
A SHOWDOWN is looming in the Zanu-PF politburo next week where senior party officials are expected to square off along factional lines over the issue of former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono, who ...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 09:14hrs | 2541 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Electoral Act fails on all counts, says MDCs
The amendments to Zimbabwe's Electoral Act do not go far enough to guarantee free and fair elections, opposition political parties have said.The Electoral Amendment Bill, signed into law by P...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 13:06hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
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