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Mnangagwa calls for international respect for Mozambique's sovereign will
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the current Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has urged the international community to respect the sovereign will of the people of Mozambi...Published: 29 Dec 2024 at 08:44hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Election watchdog pushes for political parties Bill
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has urged the government to develop a robust regulatory framework for political parties, emphasizing that this is essential for strengthening electoral dem...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:47hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Trump points finger at Democrats over latest assassination attempt
The Republican candidate believes that incendiary rhetoric by his opponents may have contributed to the second attack on his lifeFormer US President Donald Trump has suggested the rhetoric com...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 13:06hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Exposing Mnangagwa Sadc facade
Your Excellencies, I write this public letter as an ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe, a member state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).It is in the true African spirit of ubuntu...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:34hrs | 1848 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe's political parties 'dump' peace pledge
POLITICAL parties have reportedly dumped the peace pledge as they continuously disregard it by using hate speech and resorting to political violence ahead of the August 23 harmonised elections, a repo...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:31hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Zimbabwe's 'well-educated' myth
The widely acclaimed narrative - correlation fallacy - that Zimbabweans are "well educated" and are some of the highly literate people on this continent is a myth. Myths build egos, not economies; nei...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 81 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Mnangagwa makes U-turn on foreign observers?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to have swallowed his pride on his threats to bar foreign observers from observing the August 23 harmonised elections.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Ze...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe elections must be held between August 20 and 26
Let me attempt to answer three topical issues in relation to Zimbabwe's upcoming general elections. When is the general election going to be held? Will the general election be postponed? When is the a...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unfriendly UK says ready to observe Zimbabwe polls
THE United Kingdom (UK) and its allies have said they are ready to monitor and observe Zimbabwe's polls expected to be held in August if they are invited.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has since...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'Only friendly nations will observe Zimbabwe polls in future'
ZIMBABWE will not be dictated to on who to invite to observe its elections and, in future, only those countries that invite Harare to observe their own elections will be invited in return, President M...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to bar 'white super-dogs' as Zimbabwe election observers
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is expected to proclaim the election date soon, has hinted at barring international election observers from monitoring the country's upcoming general plebi...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries: Behold democracy in motion!
Our party primary electionsFOR two days towards the end of last month, our Party, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front, Zanu-PF, held its primary elections. Primary elections ar...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:22hrs | 9 | by President E.D. Mnangagwa
Beyond Beijing's 'gift' to Zimbabwe
On November 23, 2022, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave the state of the nation address at the new iconographic parliament building that was designed, funded, built and "donated" by C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Gorden Moyo
Zimbabwe not ready for free, fair elections
FOR decades after independence, Zimbabwe seems to have been disillusioned by the electoral system.Democracy has been elusive. Elections have been marred by violence. Every past election has be...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mpoki
CCC demands transparent delimitation
THE main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has expressed concern that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s delimitation process is not consultative enough to ensure decent outcomes....Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC's delimitation: An analysis of which provinces may gain or lose seats in the next parliament
The new census numbers were released in July, and they show a Zimbabwe continuing its modest population shift from the rural and to urban, a trend that will shape parliament for the next decade. The o...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Zec blames voter apathy on economy
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has blamed voter registration apathy on the state of the economy, saying even civic groups faced resource challenges in mobilising people to register to vote....Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC warns civic, political parties
CIVIL society organisations and political parties must not give incentives for people to register as voters since that might entice those already on the voters roll to register multiple times resultin...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate challenges bid to stop by-elections
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Highfield West constituency parliamentary candidate Happymore Chidziva has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application challenging a bid by MDC Alliance lea...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africans need to review the electoral democracy system
ZIMBABWE will go to the polls in 2023 to choose its leadership. It is a regular ritual the country adopted at independence in 1980 when it declared itself a democracy.That meant every five or ...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:08hrs | 11 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Disband Zec, reform the institution
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must be apolitical and must not dance to the whims of the ruling Zanu-PF party.Failing to recognise the opposition MDC Alliance party led by Nelson Cham...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
No progress on electoral reforms, says Zesn
ZIMBABWE has not covered much ground in terms of implementing electoral reforms to enable the smooth running of credible, free and fair elections due in two years' time.This was revealed in a ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC has capacity to run credible elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has capacity to manage elections despite the complexity of the process, and is committed to dispensing its duties without fear or favour, chairperson Justice Pr...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 06:53hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Zec must lift ban on by-elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has lifted the suspension on voter registration and certain "field work" as announced on January 8, 2021. However, the suspension of by-elections remains in pla...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:26hrs | | by Ian Makone, MDC Alliance secretary for elections
Public free to monitor delimitation exercise, says Zec
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) and other interested stakeholders will be allowed to monitor the delimitation exercise to ensure transparency and avoid a repeat of 2008 when the exercise was dismis...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Zanu-PF official vows to take Mnangagwa head-on
RECENTLY-EXPELLED Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central official Goodman Tamuona Musariri says he is going to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy in the courts of law. He allegedly denounced Mna...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sad day for democracy'
LAWYERS, political analysts and opposition party leaders yesterday described the swearing in of opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her 14 party nominees as replacements for the recalled MDC A...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Voters don't understand our role, says MPs
LEGISLATORS yesterday said they often ended up performing duties which were not theirs just to win votes as the bulk of the electorate was ignorant of the roles played by the President, Members of Par...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open lawyers' conference
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here last evening for the 20th Sadc Lawyers' Association annual conference he is expected to officially open this morning. The President landed just before 6PM at t...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, an illegitimate opposition leader
In politics, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually by a governing law or a regime and it requires one to be certified in accordance with accepted standards of that political ...Published: 09 May 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
A Squirrel Wedding Party, As the MDC's Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) Makes No Show?
The originally proposed Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) by the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC), as it geared itself to hold its electoral congresses in 2019 had been hailed a...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Civilian military leader needed to restore electoral democracy before 2023 presidential elections
Without doubt electoral democracy has failed to work in Zimbabwe, it might have worked in Zambia, South Africa and Botswana but in Zimbabwe electoral democracy has failed dismally, it is on record tha...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 10:27hrs | 3 | by Knowledge Hakata
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
70 vie for Zec CEO post
AT least 70 candidates have applied for the post of chief elections officer in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, an official has said. The electoral commission advertised the post last Decemb...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 22:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mothlante Commission Report: Equating the victim to the perpetrator - MDC
The MDC notes the release into the public domain the report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Violence of 1 August 2018, which report has confirmed what we all knew that the military shot in...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 11:22hrs | 2 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
ZEC hunts for chief elections officer
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is hunting for a substantive office.This comes after Zec cut ties with its chief elections officer, Constance Chigwamba, after she fell out of favour wi...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Polls divide united nation again
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been declared the winner of Zimbabwe's presidential election. But his margin of victory - he garnered 50,8% of the votes - has led the m...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Blessing Tendi
Biti fled prosecution, not persecution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his Government went out of their way to deliver credible, free, fair and transparent harmonised elections in the hope that all contestants would be magnanimous enough to put th...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
This election has divided us again
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been declared the winner of Zimbabwe's presidential election.But his margin of victory - he garnered 50,8 percent of the votes -...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:09hrs | | by Miles Tendi
Zimbabwe Elections 2018: The big read
Always on guard for synonyms of the word "election", I stroked through thesauruses, translations and search icons I could lay my fingertips on. I simply fell for one word-"choice". At least chosen can...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | 3 | by Sharon Hofisi
Politics of entitlement: A threat to electoral democracy
The election season is upon us and Zimbabwe will go to the polls on July 30. This election is both critical and unique in the sense that it is now urgent that the country moves forward after a long pe...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Terrence Muvoti
Chamisa's rising star
A PRE-ELECTION survey was conducted from April 28 to May 13, 2018 by Afrobarometer in Zimbabwe. The results were published on June 7, 2018.Yes, it is useful in my view. The major finding was o...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:56hrs | 1 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Grand National Unity?
"The turbulence in India this time hasn't come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrow...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:38hrs | 2 | by Igomombe
Credible polls critical to investors
ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled to 12 countries since his seizure of power in a bid to engage, seek legitimacy, bring investment and source funds for polls, his efforts will come t...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aligned newspaper hints at US-opposition collusion
The Herald, the state-owned Zimbabwean newspaper, has published an opinion piece titled "US, opposition collusion: Zim deserves better."In the article, the paper says that historically Zimbabw...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by BBC
Opposition frets over securocrats
BULAWAYO - As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national polls beckon, the People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to introduce security sector reforms to guarantee the...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
2018 elections and civil military relations in Zimbabwe - Dr Gorden Moyo
PEOPLE'S RAINBOW COALITION (PRC) 2018 ELECTIONS AND CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN ZIMBABWE ...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga declared he will never meet with Tsvangirai
A political analysts Doctor Philip Zamchiya has written a letter to Defence Forces Commador Constantino Chiwenga reminding him that he previously declared that he will never meet with the MDC-T leader...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:29hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
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