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'Disputed polls worsening voter apathy,' Stop using sticky band-aid to fix broken limb - vote rigging
"Disputed polls to worsen voter apathy" proclaimed Bulawayo 24 headline. "The frequency of disputed elections in Zimbabwe, the most recent being the August 23 polls, will discourage more regis...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Open letter to President Ramaphosa, Mnangagwa and HH
Open Letter from Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda a Constitutional and Human Rights law Practitioner and African Diaspora Global Network CEO The President of Zi...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Aspiring voters flood Zec centres
Politicians from across the divide led the mobilisation exercise, ferrying supporters to the mobile registration centres.ASPIRING voters congested the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mobil...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence driving away potential voters
POLITICAL violence is dissuading many Zimbabweans from registering to vote in general elections, a recent report by the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has shown.ERC said the number of new regi...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec 'frustrating' first-time voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of "deliberately frustrating" aspiring first-time voters by unnecessarily delaying processes and offering poor service at registration centres....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Where is Generation Z age group born 2000-2004? The missing '1.5 million voters'
More than 1.5 million people turn18 since the last general election, and these youngest eligible Generation Z (Gen Z), Gen Zers or Zoomers form a diverse, active, and potentially decisive voting bloc ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 6 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Voter registration continues over holidays
MOBILE voter registration centres will be open during the Easter holidays which start today, and people wishing to vote in next year's elections should take advantage of that opportunity to register, ...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
IDs still difficult to get
CITIZENS are still struggling to access national identity (ID) documents and birth certificates despite government launching a national mobile registration exercise last week.The situation is ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
'One stop centre for IDs, voter registration blitz'
ELECTORAL watchdogs have called on government to unveil one-stop mobile registration centres for national identity cards and voter registration to ensure that citizens are able to vote in the general ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe electoral process manipulated'
LOCAL think-tank Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) and election watchdogs - Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) - yesterday described the run-up to next week's...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
By-elections credibility under threat
THE credibility of the 26 March by-elections is under threat as their outcome is likely to be manipulated because the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is compromised and militarised in favour of th...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC blamed for low voter registration turnout
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is to blame for the low registration numbers as it has failed to carry out its mandate of encouraging eligible citizens to register to vote, activists have said...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 million IDs target for mobile registration blitz
GOVERNMENT is planning to issue at least two million national identity cards (IDs) and birth certificates during a mobile registration blitz that begins on April 1.Lack of critical national do...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec registers 25 000 voters in 2 weeks
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it has registered 25 603 new voters since the beginning of the mobile voter registration campaign two weeks ago.Early this year, Zec was ...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ekhaya launches ward-based voter awareness campaign
EKHAYAVote2023 has begun ward-based campaigns in Bulawayo in a bid to increase the number of people registering to vote.Nkosikhona Dibiti, the EkhayaVote2023 spokesperson told Southern Eye tha...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC scouts for voters in churches
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in the Midlands Province on Sunday dispatched voter educators to churches to encourage potential voters to go and register as the nation gears up for next year'...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voter registration marred by apathy
THE ongoing biometric voter registration (BVR) blitz has been marred by apathy with several potential registrants claiming that they are being turned away due to lack of documentation.The Zimb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low turnout as voter registration begins
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) mobile biometric voter registration started yesterday countrywide albeit on a low note in Bulawayo and some other parts of the country.The electoral man...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
$8,2 billion set aside for by-elections, registration blitz
A combined $8,2 billion has been set aside for the mobile voter registration and delimitation blitz, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chief elections officer, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, has said.Addre...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC sets up over 2 700 biometric voter registration centres
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will set up more than 2 700 mobile voter registration centres during the first phase of the mobile Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) drive that begins on Tuesd...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration drive begins
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will set up more than 2 700 mobile voter registration centres during the first phase of the mobile Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) drive that begins on Tuesd...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
ZEC exposes voter registration scam
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has unearthed a scam in which some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) are providing incentives to hundreds of people t...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Snub March 26 by-elections'
LITTLE-KNOWN opposition Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Democrats party (ZSD) yesterday called on all political parties to boycott the March by-elections saying they were poorly planned and costly.The...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | | 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 | 6 | 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 | 12 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Low voter registration signals distrust in electoral system and lack of faith in main political parties
As the year 2023 beckons - with an anticipation of fierce and potentially bruising electoral contestation between Zimbabwe's two main political rivals, ZANU PF and MDC Alliance - one would have though...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:22hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Youths group targets to register 3 million voters
Project Vote Zimbabwe, a group of youth volunteers, is targeting to assist at least three million young people to register as voters by 2023, an official said yesterday."As Project Vote Zimbab...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 16:19hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland provinces face low registered voters
MATABELELAND provinces risk having fewer constituencies and wards when the delimitation exercise kicks-off as some areas have low numbers of registered voters. This comes at a time the Zimbabw...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zec keeps tight lid on by-elections
HUMAN rights defenders have blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for its continued suspension of by-elections citing COVID-19 restrictions.Zec chief elections officer Utoile Silaigw...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voter registration apathy hits Bulawayo
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has bemoaned the low turnout at its ongoing mobile voter registration exercise in Bulawayo, warning that this would cost the city about three constituencies....Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Habakkuk Trust 'Rocks' Mangwe
Ekuthuleni business centre in Mangwe ward 12 was the place to be as Habakkuk Trust convened a Rock the Vote Concert, which featured talented artist Clement Magwaza affectionately known as "gwazoo"....Published: 29 May 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zec sets up more registration centres
VOTER registration centres for the biometric voters roll (BVR) will be increased for the final registration mop up exercise running concurrently with the inspection of the provisional roll, which the ...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zec registering only 100 people in Harare/day'
An election watchdog has raised alarm that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is only registering 100 people per day at Cecil House and Remembrance Complex static voter registration centres in Ha...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
30K more register to vote
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has registered more than 30 000 people under the continuous voter registration programme.The continuous voter registration programme followed the mobile...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Zanu-PF MPs, chiefs instil fear in rural voters'
National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda has urged opposition legislators to grill Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi today over allegations that Zanu-PF was intimidating voters by demanding serial numbe...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
13 Million Voices For Peace campaign launched
Heal Zimbabwe has launched its National Peace campaign: 13 Million Voices For Peace at a colorful ceremony in Harare on 09 November 2017.The launch coincided with a policy conference on pe...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by HZT
Police block MDC rally again
Police in Karoi have for the second time blocked opposition MDC's rally which was supposed to be held in the town.The party's vice president, Nelson Chamisa, was set to address the meeting, wh...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 13:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC on course to register 7 million voters
Elections, it is said, are the core component of democracy. After gaining its independence in 1980 Zimbabwe, has organised and held elections whenever they were due. Despite numerous problems and setb...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 23:18hrs | | by Sifelani Tsiko
MDC-T takes on Zanu-PF over BVR intimidation
THE opposition MDC-T has threatened to take Zanu-PF to court for allegedly dangling food aid at voter registration centres and inciting its activists to demand serial numbers from voter registrants....Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North - Phase 2 Voter Registration Centres
Constituency Ward Registration CentreLupane East 10 Lupaka Primary SchoolLupane East 10 Matshakayile Primary SchoolLupane East 10 Khatshana Primary SchoolLupane East 10 Janjanja - ...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 13:22hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Phase 2 - Voter Registration Centres
Constituency Ward Registration CentreBulawayo South 6 Barham Green - HallBulawayo South 6 Barham Green - Primary SchoolBulawayo South 6 Founders - High SchoolBulawayo South 6 Green...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chidhakwa ropes in civil society in registration drive
ZENGEZA West MP Simon Chidhakwa (MDC-T) last week roped in civil society groups and churches on a two-day roadshow he organised in his constituency to mobilise residents to register, as most biometric...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
CSOs voter registration campaign nets thousands
THE countrywide dragnet of roadshows that were launched by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) and the Elections Resource Centre (ERC) in four days has reached thousands of people with v...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Phase 2 Bulawayo - ZEC Voter Registration Centres
Dates 29 Oct - 13 Nov 2017 Bulawayo Remember you can register at any registration centre near you and th...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Political parties to pay $100 000 to register observers
POLITICAL parties have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of pricing them out of observing the voter registration process, which will open with a nationwide blitz next Tuesday.MDC...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Boycotting 2018 is not an option,' says ZUNDE - not when it is the only option, which it is
"Nhamo inenharo!" (There is no one more foolishly stubborn than a fool!) as one would say in Shona. The question of whether Zimbabweans should continue to contest the Zanu PF managed elections...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 09:50hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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