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Chamisa drops the MDC Alliance tag, red colours and open palm symbol
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday rebranded his party name from MDC Alliance to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) .Chamisa announced the new party name, symbols and slogan in Harare...Published: 18 hrs ago | 4262 | by Staff reporter
Musarara, Kazembe bury differences
Tafadzwa Musarara, the losing candidate from the recently held chaotic ZANU PF provincial elections has pledged his loyaly to his sworn enemy, Kazembe Kaz...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 21:20hrs | 809 | by helton Muchena
Musarara pulls a huge crowd on tree planting ceremony
A huge crowd came for a tree planting ceremony at St Albans primary school in Chiweshe today.An estimate of 10 000 people gathered in C...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 21:11hrs | 553 | by Simbarashe Sithole
NGOs sponsoring multiple voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday claimed that it had unearthed a scam where civic groups were allegedly enticing voters already on the roll to register multiple times so as to discred...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:39hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
ZEC cannot bar Chamisa
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it could not block Nelson Chamisa and his party from using the MDC Alliance name, dealing a blow to MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora, who is claimin...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 4291 | by Staff reporter
Govt delays e-passports rollout
Government is yet to start issuing electronic passports after logistical challenges marred trial runs of the process, a minister has said."They (e-passports) are not yet issued, but there are ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1244 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo RG's office issues 40 IDs per day'
BULAWAYO residents have accused officials at the Registrar-General (RG) Office in the city of poor service amid claims they were only processing 40 national identification documents per day....Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:19hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Zec must respect citizens' rights
THE announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) that all new voters who registered this year will not be captured on the national voters' roll and might not vote in the March 26 by-e...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:15hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora throws knockout punch
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to bar his rival and leader of the MDC Alliance, Nelson Chamisa, from using the acronym MDC....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:35hrs | 5776 | by Staff reporter
Zec indicating right but turning left
ON its website, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) lists among its top goals "to conduct and manage elections and referenda in Zimbabwe in a transparent, impartial and independent manner and to p...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:37hrs | 169 | 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 | 2024 | by Staff reporter
ZEC 'bans' civic groups from conducting voter education
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has banned Civic Society Organisation (CSOs) that are not accredited with them from conducting voters' education, a move viewed as a blow to voter mobilisation ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
ZEC unveils election roadmap
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says it was ready to conduct the forthcoming by-elections and has unveiled a roadmap which include voter education, production of election material, training of polli...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe in climbdown over passport deal
HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister, Kazembe Kazembe has come off his high horse, repelling an earlier Statutory Instrument empowering CBZ Bank to unilaterally receive US$20 passport applicati...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:36hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses 'rigged' Zanu-PF elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday endorsed the disputed results of his Zanu-PF party's provincial elections and urged members to accept the outcome.He also rallied all party members to wo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:09hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Politburo endorses poll results
THE Politburo yesterday endorsed provincial chairpersons who emerged victorious following polls held last week.Those endorsed are now substantive provincial chairpersons in their respective pr...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:00hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Civil society organisations demands voters roll
LOCAL civil society organisations (CSOs) have piled pressure on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to clear the air on the ongoing voter registration programme after it recently issued two differ...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 826 | by Staff Reporter
'Armed robberies linked to 2017 coup'
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has sensationally claimed that soldiers and police officers implicated in recent armed robbers could have stolen the firearm...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 4283 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name dropped in chaotic polls
TENSION is swirling within Zanu-PF circles ahead of today's potentially explosive politburo meeting amid reports of continued chaos over the just-ended provincial polls, name-dropping of President Emm...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 6367 | by Staff reporter
War vets commander convicted of stealing 17 beasts
MASHONALAND Central's self-styled war veterans commander Dzingai Nevhunjere, who at the height of the land reform programme in 2002 allegedly terrorised commercial farmers in Mazowe district, wa...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central senior officials vows to make province ungovernable
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials in Mashonaland Central province have vowed to make the region ungovernable for Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe following his controversial re-election as chairperson las...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
ZEC registers 5,7 million voters
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) has so far recorded 5 647 000 registered voters countrywide for next year's elections, with 22 000 dead people being removed from the voters roll.In a state...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:51hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Top Cop defies Mnangagwa's order
Officer Commanding Bindura district Chief Superintendent Gladman Chiparaushe reportedly defied president Emmerson Mnangagwa's directive to arrest a ...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 17:11hrs | 7537 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe, SA at war over border jumpers
ZIMBABWE and South Africa are at war over border jumpers, with the neighbouring country's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi accusing local security forces of taking bribes to let undocumented imm...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 2712 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers sue police over house fire
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have threatened to sue police after a Chitungwiza man lost household property in a fire when he was arrested and denied a chance to put out a mosquito coil...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1396 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matabeleland North youth poll stopped as candidates were over 35
Zanu-PF was last week forced to stop its youth league elections in Matabeleland North province after it emerged all the candidates vying for seats were over 35 years of age.According to party ...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry widens
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has banned its members from celebrating presumed victories in its internal polls for provincial executive members in a move seen as an attempt to quash factional fights betwee...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 10888 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF meets over controversial provincial polls
Zanu-PF's Politburo will meet this week to confirm winners and address any complaints from the party's provincial elections held last week.The ruling party's national political commissar, Mike...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to disqualify the violent and the cheats
THE rampant rigging and violence that characterised Zanu-PF's provincial elections held on Tuesday has been admitted to at the party's highest level, with national political commissar Mike Bimha sayin...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:58hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda bounces back as Zanu-PF provincial leaders announced
Zanu-PF yesterday announced 10 provincial chairpersons who emerged victorious following successful polls held this week with new office bearers being elected in seven provinces.Minister of Sta...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:53hrs | 2729 | by Staff reporter
War Veterans demand ZANU PF provincial election rerun
War Veterans Association in Mashonaland Central province have petitioned the Politiburo for an ZANU PF provincial election rerun in Guruve and Mbire distr...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 12:52hrs | 1571 | by Simbarashe Sithole
War vets demand Zanu-PF election re-run
IRATE veterans of the 1970s liberation war – a key cog in the Zanu-PF wheel – have come out guns blazing against alleged widespread vote rigging during Tuesday's provincial elections and are calli...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:30hrs | 2455 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF prolongs poll announcement delay
Zanu-PF has failed to announce results of Tuesday's provincial elections for the second day in a row as contestants complained of massive rigging allegations and called for a re-run.Results we...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:30hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF withholds election results
Zanu-PF has failed to release official results for the provincial elections held on Tuesday amid fears the announcement would further destabilise the already fractured party ahead of the 2023 harmonis...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:09hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration centres not enough, says Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted that the available voter registration centres are not adequate and inaccessible to aspiring first-time voters.The admission comes after Zec...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:08hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe dished out money to win Zanu-PF poll
VOTING in Mbire and Muzarabani districts, Mashonaland Central, was conducted in the dead of night with polling agents shut out of stations as Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe deployed a well-oile...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:05hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe's victory a bonus for the opposition
MDC Alliance supporters in Mashonaland Central are reportedly upbeat following the unconfirmed election victory of ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province ch...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 09:58hrs | 11971 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Zesa workers not involved in cables theft'
POWER utility Zesa Holdings has revealed that its employees frequently pick up bodies of people electrocuted while trying to steal electricity copper cables.None of the victims have been Zesa ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs denounce shameful election
THE extended delay in announcing results from Tuesday's provincial Zanu-PF elections has led to fears the outcome was deliberately manipulated in favour of candidates preferred by the party's leadersh...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF awaits party poll results
Zanu-PF provincial election results started trickling into the party's National Command Centre in Harare yesterday afternoon with more results expected this morning.There were expectations of ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:51hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Rail-road level crossing accidents, suicides worry NRZ
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has expressed concern over the increase in rail-road level crossing accidents and suicides.This comes after 47 rail suicide cases and 56 road rail cross...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:47hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe offers agent US$25,000 to manipulate poll result
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, staring in the face of a heavy defeat in his bid to bounce back as Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman, allegedly offered to pay a senior party membe...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:57hrs | 4066 | by Staff reporter
Riot cops called in to disperse Zanu-PF supporters
RIOT cops called in to disperse Zanu-PF supporters after violent clashes erupted in Centenary, Mashonaland Central province Tuesday night were left with no option but fire warning shots to prevent the...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:55hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Elections Director Bars Intelligence Officers From Vote Counting Venue Amid Rigging Storm
INTELLIGENCE chiefs have reported a massive rigging plot in the party's Mashonaland Central provincial chairmanship election involving a senior staffer, Collen Mharadzano, to President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:54hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rock Zanu-PF polls
Zanu-PF held elections across the country to choose members of its provincial executives, but the polls were marred by chaos amid claims of rampant rigging and vote-buying.Voting started much ...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 2676 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF election candidates flee with ballot papers
VIOLENCE in parts of Mashonaland West and allegations of rigging across the country's 10 provinces characterised Zanu-PF's provincial elections held Tuesday, with some candidates being accused of flee...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 5144 | by Staff reporter
Musarara takes early lead in crunch Zanu-PF poll
BUSINESSMAN Tafadzwa Musarara has taken a commanding early lead in the hotly contested race for the Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairmanship, preliminary election results show.He wa...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 19:00hrs | 3013 | by Staff reporter
Blood and thunder as Zanu-PF polls kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected as Zanu-PF provincial elections kick- off Tuesday, with officials and big wigs involved in heavy campaigning often spilling overnight MondayAhead of the internal polls, ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Political skeletons tumble out of Kazembe's closet
AS the potentially explosive Zanu-PF provincial elections take off Tuesday, party members in the volatile Mashonaland Central province are leaving no stone unturned, with daggers now drawn against the...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:12hrs | 2416 | by Staff reporter
Rigging fears grip Mash Central
ZANU PF supporters in Mashonaland Central province have expressed concern over rigging attempts on the Provincial elections being orchestrated by incumben...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 00:18hrs | 993 | by Roy Moyo
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